Christopher Williamson Email & Phone Number

Arvada, CO, US

Boise, ID, US

Gamification of resistance and strength training built in Unity Virtual Reality

Contracted on a variety of Unity gamedev, simulation, mobile, and VR projects for clients in the aerospace, greentech, medical, and education industries to optimize their asset pipelines taking advantage of recent Unity technologies:✔Universal Resource Pipeline (URP) to optimize assets and improve portability, coding styles, bundles✔Cloud content delivery.

Founded a non-profit school to inspire future teens (esp. girls). Onboarded and mentored a diverse team of 8 to 27 developers, teachers, and volunteers using positive organizational leadership and key skill training.🏆Won Best Tech Camp for Kids from Yellow Scene's Best of the West✔Developed STEM roadmap, tools, videos for 7 coding classes in Unity, C#.

Lafayette, CO, US

Engaged cross-functional remote teams of 8 developers, 4 artists, and 5 testers in 5 different countries to modernize catalog of 12 cross-platform desktop and mobile game services to Unity C# on iOS and Android.🏆Remotely collaborated with TGC on multiplayer design for Journey PS3 which won 100+ industry awards✔Delivered 9 refactored Unity apps 3 months.

Golden, CO, US

Gave strategic direction in the integration of diverse enterprise applications to create a military simulation for the US Air Force, including gamification of training missions, AI, and integrated with actual press video.🏆Presented to USAF and landed a $3m deal and attained the Brandon Hall award for NSDM Joint Ops✔Championed diversity and grew team from 4.

Ramsey, NJ, US

Migrated Konica’s US-based R&D team to Agile process (CI, TDD, refactoring), developed embedded printer solutions, led quarterly evaluation of and career development plans for 7-9 decreasing turnover by 50%.🏆Invented Methodology for Memory Management on Print Devices; awarded US Patent in 2012✔Mentored GM on modern HR reporting and adopting technical.

Westminster, CO, US

Led team of 4 developers, 3 artists and 2 testers on branded AAA Playstation console game for Activision.✔Exceeded goal of 30 FPS by optimizing 300+ models, 500+ textures, and 100,000 lines of core code✔Delighted Activision producer with more butterflies: ensuring $2m in future contracts for studio✔Ensured speed and playability of Madagascar: Escape 2.

• > Founded software company building and selling casual games online
• 5-12 direct reports using C#, Visual Basic, C++, Win32, DirectX, Web 2.0.
• Developed 14 card and board games focusing on AI + usability for casual gamers.
• Agile process including continuous integration, test-driven development, refactoring, reviews.
• Championship Hearts won PocketPC Magazine’s Card Game of the Year in 2004 and Spades won in 2006.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Ported a huge UI class framework for electronic medical record (EMR) system using CORBA, Java, Oracle.🏆Won CompuWorld's Smithsonian Award for Innovation in Healthcare✔Engineered 5 medical imaging prototypes and 17 tools in Java and C++. Certified MCSD and Adv. Java✔Designed and refactored a large CORBA class framework using Design Patterns, UML, Rational.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• > After graduating, I maximized exposure to many technologies through consulting
• Performed usability testing, task analysis, and improved usability of GUI.
• HomeFinder real estate won CU Design Expo Best of Show. Presented ACM SIGCHI 1996.

• > While a grad student, I worked at a portability toolkit company creating UI controls
• Designed and developed XVT-PowerObjects, a set of portable UI custom controls.
• Unit tested and kept compliance with UI standards on 30 different C++ platforms.

• > While an undergrad, I designed and built UI prototypes for data visualization
• Dr. Shneiderman and I invented dynamic queries for data visualization of data sets.
• Created the Dynamic HomeFinder, written in C with custom GUI slider controls.
• Two papers on dynamic queries published/presented at ACM SIGCHI ‘92 + ACM SIGIR ‘92.

M.E., Software Engineering

B.S., Computer Science And Cognitive Psychology