Zoe Piepmeier Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Now: back on the Data Liberation Front, revising and improving Google Takeout's core platform to meet modern needs.Previously: - A wide-reaching privacy verification and enforcement effort within Google that involved creating a fancy privacy-centric ontology of data.- Freeing users from data lock-in with the Data Liberation Front[1]. In particular, I helped launch Google Takeout[2] and then added support for Gmail export to it[3].Google Takeout and the Data Liberation Front served as inspiration for the EU GDPR's Data Portability standards.[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20140123094034/http://www.dataliberation.org/[2]: https://www.google.com/takeout[3]: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/download-copy-of-your-gmail-and-google.html

Worked on cameras, gameplay, and UI on Tony Hawk: RIDE 2. Developed several in-game camera treatments and started work on a system that would allow cameras to be defined as stacks of "atomic", reusable camera behaviors. Provided support on UI and gameplay modes.Worked on UI, audio, and systems on Tony Hawk: RIDE. Reworked UI to handle asynchronous jobs and developed a popup system. Significant work on TRC/TCR compliance and system-level downloadable content/savedata I/O for Xbox 360 and PS3.

Gameplay engineer on Spore Hero. Extensive work on most major gameplay mechanics and scripting system.

Worked on a 2-person team to implement skinnable GUI frontend for new fighting game. Also worked on user created music module.

Managed large-scale IT support, with a specialty in hardware troubleshooting/replacement.

Designed and implemented studio-wide metrics/reports server.