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Seattle, Washington, Us

- Managed teams of engineers working on features, tools and the engine for the Mobile and Web clients for multiple online Casino games- Building the high level Architecture for larger features for games.- Responsible for Strategic planning for the long term vision for engineering- High level view of issues ailing the engineering teams and implementing solutions- Coaching and growing others into engineering leadership positions. Creating a collaborative environments with emphasis of growing and learning from mistakes in the engineering org- Close collaboration with other business leads and Product team to work on larger initiatives for the games. - Drive on individual features for the game as needed from high level inception of idea to tracking and analysis of feature post release

San Francisco, California, Us

Zynga Poker:- Managed a team of engineers working on new features for the Mobile and Web clients- Mentored engineers on my team and helped them grow in different areas- Drove studio wide Engineering initiatives to improve engineering team skills- Defined the Post release support process for the release on new mobile clients- Revamped the On Boarding process to ramp up engineers in all technical areas - Handled all Scrum master duties for the team including running daily standups, pre-planning and planning meetings- Lead cross team Sprint review meetings with upper management for my Pod- Responsible for scheduling work for Sprints based on roadmap defined by the Product Owner

San Francisco, California, Us

Zynga Poker: - Full stack engineer responsible for developing new features in PHP, HTML/CSS and Flash- Responsible for architecting new features- Participated in all code reviews for features being worked on- Managed multiple releases as Release engineer for backend releases- Mentored and guided Intern software engineers ChefVille : - Demonstrated planning skills by delivering new features ahead of time on a sustained basis- Worked with Product Managers to cost out new features- Full stack engineer responsible for developing new features in PHP and Flash( AS3 )- Worked closely with content integrators to create tools to simplify creation of new game content- Lead hotfix releases to address burning issue on Production- Worked with remote offshore teams - Responsible for content retirement system in game to deprecate unused content- Revamped the stats taxonomy for the game resulting in significant revenue boost- Implemented SOX compliance reporting for our game- Write SQL queries to help Product Managers understand tracked data

Hoffman Estates, Il, Us

- Lead Engineer responsible for scheduling and managing other engineers. - Tasked and reviewed work done by other engineers.- Worked closely with Art and Design Leads to fulfill the vision for the game. - Worked with the production staff and upper management to make sure all milestone requirements were met.- Setup and maintained the build machines.- Point person for any build related problems for support departments( Art, AV, UI)- Developed core game play mechanics in collaboration with design. Published titles: 1. Country Dance: All Stars(360 Kinect), Game Mill Entertainment2. Country Dance(Wii), Game Mill Entertainment3. Nickelodeon Fit(Wii), 2K Play4. Dora’s Big Birthday Adventure(Wii, PS2), 2K Play5. Ni Hao, Kai-Lan: Super Game Day(Wii, PS2), 2K Play6. Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom(Wii, PS2) , 2K Play7.Go, Diego, Go : Great Dinosaur Rescue(Wii, PS2) , 2K Play8.Dora Saves the Snow Princess(Wii, PS2) , 2K Play

Hoffman Estates, Il, Us

Wrote code for games from multiple genres for the Xbox, PS2, GameCube and PSP consoles. Responsibilities range from assembly level optimizations to high level gameplay logic implementation in C++. Worked on Game AI, Visual FX, Audio and Certification issues. Worked closely with Designers to implement Layout tool for physics based game. Worked on 10 published console games and other unpublished ones. Published titles: 1. The Conduit (Wii), SEGA of America Inc.2. Tournament of Legends (Wii), SEGA of America Inc.3. America’s Army: True Soldiers (Xbox 360), Ubisoft4. Blitz: Overtime (PSP), Midway Games5. Family Guy (PSP), Take Two Interactive6. Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (GameCube), Activision7. Disney's The Haunted Mansion (PS2), TDK Mediactive, Inc.8. Hunter: The Reckoning (GameCube), Interplay Entertainment Corp.9. Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 (PS2), Buena Vista Games, Inc.10. NBA Inside Drive 2002 (Xbox), Microsoft Game Studios

Developed, ported and supported Iris Explorer, an interactive, modular visualization system. Involved cross platform development on IRIX, Windows NT and Solaris using C++ and Open Inventor. Worked closely with sales colleagues to give proof of concept to clients for visualization solution.

M.S., Computer Science

B.Sc., Electronics

Mss, Computer Science