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Portland, Oregon

Many responsibilities covering virtually the entire gamut of services and applications Gliffy produces. Responsible for coordinating the development of new feature sets for Gliffy’s award-winning Atlassian Confluence and JIRA plugins, as well as leading many of the implementations. Lead development on Visio 2013 (.vsdx) and draw.io document importers..

Emeryville, CA

Worked on a small team responsible for maintenance and upgrades for a suite of internal tools. Ported fourteen-year-old C++/MFC tool to an Eclipse RCP (Java/SWT) application, including setting up a group of acceptance tests to compare output with that of the legacy tool in order to verify business logic correctness. Set up continuous integration pipeline.

San Francisco, CA

Burlingame, CA

Contributed to development of cross-platform ActionScript-based game platform, including resource management, startup flow, and asset distribution. Worked on both Android and iOS aspects in their respective native environments, as well as cross-platform common code written in C++. Developed a number of “plugins” which provided a unified interface for.

Carlsbad, CA

Developed and maintained a family of easy-to-use “virtual studio” rendering software suitable for professional use (our customers include Ford, Nissan, Honda, and many other car companies; along with a number of top advertising agencies). Designed and developed the content import/export pipeline, which is based on a self-developed plug-in architecture and.

Carlsbad, CA

Developed flexible, data-driven Maya-centric asset exporter with support for data types including models, skeletons, skeletal and texture animations, skinning data, cutscene data, shader data, and other custom data types. Assisted with design and implementation of game engine, including implementations of world node management, environmental animations.

Santa Cruz, CA

Completed UI for HBO Boxing, which featured a complex career mode. Developed UI editing tool for artists to tune look and feel of UI without programmer interaction. Began prototype work for Playstation 2 project before company disbanded.

San Jose, CA

Worked with two other programmers on a motorcycle racing game in early development. Developed streaming system on Playstation 1 which allowed two players to be on completely opposite sides of a gigantic race course. Implemented most basic features in the game excluding physics and rendering.

Salt Lake City, UT

Managed in-house test team and assisted with gameplay tuning for titles such as Warhawk, Twisted Metal, Twisted Metal 2, and Jet Moto (all for Playstation). Assisted with networking code for PC port of Twisted Metal 2. Worked as game/UI programmer and gameplay designer on Critical Depth and Streak: Hoverboard Racing (both for Playstation). Informally.