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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. Streamlined many build/release processes, migrating from custom build processes to off-the-shelf tools. Refactored dependencies in legacy core library, and created a translation tool to convert our legacy/globals-based code to ES6 modules, while preserving the global wrappers externally for backwards-compatibility with existing legacy applications.

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 (Maven/Jenkins) for three separate applications, including Windows, Mac, and Linux versions. Added installers for all products automatically built by CI pipeline. Responsible for migration of decade-old legacy codebase from Subversion to Git, including development of a reusable, data-driven tool created solely for this purpose.

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 ActionScript code to interface with the native platforms without writing special-case code for each. Developed a set of Eclipse plugins to allow easy development and publishing of projects from directly within FlashBuilder and FDT IDEs, including build and distribution automation.

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 includes support for many geometry and image formats. Designed and developed the animation system, including WPF-based user interface and all backing code to drive animation data in real-time and during rendering processes. Maintenance of all installers and continuous build integration. Development of many WPF UI elements and other miscellaneous features.

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, trigger and inventory systems, texture animations, heads up display, and much preliminary work for things such as vehicles and world management. Worked on prototype project including work with in-game cameras, character control and gameplay, sound and special effects management, a data-driven UI system which included support for 2D and 3D interactions, and a mouse-driven in-game editing facility (including GUI) that operated across PC and Playstation 2. Became very familiar with much of the engine and game code base due to nature of exporter work. Worked closely with artists and designers to give them the results they desired.

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 assisted with gameplay tuning for Jet Moto 2 and Outwars.