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Did AI, gameplay and tools programming on 2 Hasbro “Littlest Pet Shop” titles for the Wii console. Used C++AI/Gameplay programming/Team Lead for “Sims 3 Pets” for the Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms. AI/Gameplay programming/Team Lead for “The Sims Medieval” for PC. Used C++ and C#AI/Gameplay programming for New Store Objects for The Sims 3 on EA’s online Sims 3 store. PC – Used C++ and C#

Senior software engineer on various 2K Sports titles. Did AI, game-flow and tools programming for NCAA College Basketball, NCAA Football, NHL Hockey and MLB Baseball games. Developed “career mode” for several of these games. Used C++.

AI lead programmer on “Circus Maximus: Chariot Wars” for the Xbox and PS2 game consoles using C++. This is an ancient roman chariot racing/combat game. Created base classes for all AI aspects of the game including all rendered/animated objects. Created framework for the animation system used by all animated characters in the game. Made the chariot teams move around the track and interact with one another properly and integrated the physics code to make teams react properly during collisions and crashes. Wrote all code related to combat and combat reactions. This enabled complex player interactions that combined chariot racing and fighting into exciting, unique and entertaining game play. AI lead programmer for two 3D WCW Wresting games “WCW Mayhem” and “WCW Backstage Assault” for N64 and Playstation using C. All tasks involved in making the wrestlers act, react and interact with one another as well as synching the animations and making them react properly to collisions were mine. Wrote various tools using MFC and C++ used for setting up wrestler attributes and animations.

Lead and produced, designed and did all programming in C and assembly language for the “CDTV Sports: Football” game for the Amiga CD32 game console working directly with Commodore Business Machines. This was one of the first games to feature CD based streaming video sequences. Produced and processed those sequences and wrote my own streaming video driver.Lead position doing all programming and some graphics work on “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends” for the Sega Genesis using C and assembly language.Lead programmer on two sub-games in “The Muppets CD Rom: Muppets Inside” using C. Did graphics, animation and sound programming. Written for Win95. Strong exposure to Windows programming environment and gained a very detailed knowledge of its multimedia extensions and APIs.Co-lead and did game graphics, front end, networking, modem connectivity, sound and music programming for the PC game: “NCAA Championship Basketball” using C and 8088 assembly language. This game ran on the DOS and Windows OSs.Did various programming tasks on the N64 version of “Bio-Freaks” using C. This is a 3D fighting game and my jobs included: optimizing the scheduler and graphics code, making the particle system function properly and various visual effects.

Various programming tasks as a senior programmer on several games “Rocker Ranger”, “TV Sports: Football”, “Wings” in C and 68000 assembly language for the Atari ST and Amiga computers.Lead programmer on the Atari ST version of “Defender of the Crown”, the original Amiga version of “It Came From the Desert” and its sequel: “Antheads.”Built various tools programs used for graphics, data compression, audio and midi music development. Wrote low level graphics, sound and midi drivers for the Amiga using C and assembly language.

Programmed educational games and training software for the IBM PC and PC Jr. using Forth and assembly language.

All programming for 2 published games “Pharaoh’s Pyramid” and “Tube Trooper” using 6502 assembly language for the Atari 8-bit family of computers.Created all graphics, sound effect and music used in the games.Heavily involved in all aspects of game design.Wrote various programming and graphics tools used in game production.