Combined optics and simulation with electrical engineering, industrial design, and RTOS software. Created a consumer electronic device to encourage and inspire interest in astronomy among school-age children. Filed provisional patent.

Worked with customers and business owners to determine needs, identify and prioritize features to address those needs, and define product development roadmap. Drove definition, requirements, and interface design for projects and features, tested their effectiveness along the way, and managed implementation and delivery. Worked with other program managers, UI designers, editors, and developers to deliver a world-class customer experience.

Architected the Java version of our signature product, and lead a team in the design, development, and documentation efforts. Coordinated and liaised to offshore developers, providing program requirements, objectives, features, and technical guidance. Analyzed and reviewed development plans and implementations created by others. Contributed Java, BREW, and wireless industry experience as we expanded to additional platforms and carriers. Shared technical knowledge of open standards, industry best practices, and hardware issues, and gave specific advice on how to overcome technical hurdles. Wrote and maintained technical design documents and whitepapers. Established and enforced professional software development processes. Researched and designed new product features and applications. Provided customer-facing support and interfaced with technical partners.

Lead engineering initiatives and set technical direction. Architected high-availability infrastructure to support multiplayer games for mobile devices, including support for 1-on-1 and many-on-many, lobbying, tournaments, etc. Defined software development processes, such as SCM, release procedures, and defect tracking. Wrote and maintained technical documents. Reported status to executive-level management and participated in long-term strategic planning. Delivered technical presentations to investors/clients/partners.

Developed original games for mobile devices running J2ME and BREW. Created framework for rapid redevelopment across several devices, including a plug-in architecture to facilitate porting to new device families. Created or extended tools to simplify and automate many development tasks, such as level editing, font conversion, resource compression, etc. Highly proficient at optimizing for resource-constrained platforms.

Created and extended tools to support MMP development, including 3D layout, materials, and game object editing. Contributed components to the mission system. Later lead a development team of seven, reporting to the Director of Online Technology.

Designed platform and content-delivery architecture for an interactive product dedicated to educating pre-schoolers over the Internet. Developed proof-of-concept to attract initial VC investment of $1.5 million, then successfully expanded the technology to create a commercial product, including a flexible content and subscription management system. Designed and developed back-end analysis, database, and customer-support systems. Provided technical knowledge and direction to a team of three. Finalized requirements, established schedules, and coordinated deliverables.

Implemented Amazon.com's Wishlist, adding deferred purchase and purchase-by-proxy capabilities to the website and integrating with customer and product databases, the shopping cart, and search. Created technical specification and established schedule.

Developed the secure digital delivery mechanism for our "boxless" software, clever and entertaining computer puzzle games purchased from our website or through third-party online distributers, such as Real Networks. Coordinated external contracts and acted as lead developer on several work-for-hire projects, including specialized 3D utilities for other game companies, web applications, and level editors. Worked closely with Tetris inventor Alexey Pazhitnov to implement his original designs for the Internet Gaming Zone and a subsequent retail release on CD.

Designed and developed a specialized physics simulator for use in a large-scale multiplayer online game. Designed and developed a large tool suite, used extensively by several production assistants, artists, and engineers. Provided direct programming support to several concurrent CDROM products, and contributed to the Media Framework used by all Starwave products.

Created user interface for a retail entertainment product targeting the 3DO game console. Developed many art processing tools for use by non-technical production artists. Designed and developed enhanced 3D perspective animation, camera movement, and visibility algorithms.

Converted three top-selling retail PC entertainment products to other platforms. Contributed 3D graphics and simulation components to the sports product line. Generated game code and technologies for PC and Sega Genesis. Developed a specialized rotoscoping/digitization application used to capture motion data from multiple orthogonal camera views. Its low-cost hardware requirements realized a substantial savings over dedicated (and then-nascent) MOCAP technologies.