Phil Brown Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Fremont, California, Us

* Tech lead for desktop team handling software implementation of proprietary RAW codec.* Architected high performance threaded implementation of decoder taking advantage of SSE/AVX/AVX2 CPU intrinsics. GPU devices are further utilized via computer shaders in OpenCL, Metal and CUDA.* Lead many performance based discussions with desktop, hardware and algorithm teams. Providing feedback and algorithm direction to allow desktop implementation to run as efficient as possible.* Cross-platform support across OS X, Windows and Linux.* Directed team to maintain efficient and clean code via code reviews.* Designed and implemented a COM based API for 3rd party users.* Implemented reusable core components which are used across multiple teams.* Handled communication between several teams, spanning several offices, to ensure design goals and technical requirements were met.

* Turbo Pixel is a company formed by myself and two others (an artist & designer) to produce “Reflex”, an arcade first person shooter, now available on Steam EA. This game has been in development for a couple years, after we brought it to steam last year the demand increased and we turned to full-time development.* Reflex is a huge accomplishment and is a great showcase of my technical skills and abilities.* I wrote the game engine, in C++ from scratch.* Using DirectX 11 I built a Physically Based deferred Renderer, including features such as in-game radiosity lightmap baking.* I implemented a network communication layer with raw sockets over UDP. It uses a gamestate delta packing scheme to deliver updates from server to client, on top of that sits a reliable message protocol. The game netcode features client side prediction, server side extrapolation and server side backwards reconciliation.* There is a headless light-weight dedicated server, less than 10MB in size and is ran on virtual/cloud machines with low CPU overhead.* Implemented LuaJIT for a customizable user interface. All assets (including scripts) were hot-loaded into the game as soon as the source file script was updated.* Implemented a recording & playback system. After a game is finished you can reload it and scrub time forwards/backwards to see what happened and when.* Implemented many asset parses / packers / compilers, such as reading TGA textures and packing them into various DXT1/DXT5/BC6H/BC7 formats for different quality settings, or loading HLSL shader code and pre-compiling into bytecode.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

* Worked with another colleague to create a new revision of the in-house renderer. Goals included making it substantially easier to integrate new platforms, hugely improving performance across all platforms, general clean-up and making it easier to maintain. * Identified and addressed pipeline bottlenecks throughout tools and systems within the company. This included implementing new build system scripts, updating asset creation tools and also proof of concept for a new expendable asset compilation system.* Huge amounts of various small tasks to ensure products were done on time and within budget.

Fremont, California, Us

* Built several cross platform (Windows / Linux / Mac OS-X) utility applications. This involved using specific platform tools such as Mac Interface Builder, Microsoft MFC, and on Linux Qt.* Created cross platform COM based thread safe API to communicate with hardware via ethernet.* Created front-end C++ Qt Application for which attached the COM API. This application not only allowed you to control the hardware remotely, but also supported uploading images and movies.* Embedded software; I Implemented a wear leveling EEPROM file system for embedded firmware, also wrote a manufacturing test software.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Member of Torus Software Engineering Team:* Designed, Implemented and maintained the internal cross platform Physics Engine running on DS, PS2, Wii, Xbox360, PS3, PC.* Maintained rendering system on several platforms. Experience includes writing particle systems, spatial systems, advanced materials, water effects, full screen effects, shadowing solutions.* Developed in-house tools, written in a combination of C, C++, C#.* Cross Platform development, ensuring systems run across all platforms, attempting to hide fixed point vs floating point issues and other cross platform difficulties.