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Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

• Manage European Xbox game developer relationships to help bring the best possible games to Microsoft platforms.• Ensure Xbox provides the premier developer and gamer experience.

• Manage European Xbox game developer relationships to help bring the best possible games to Microsoft platforms.• Ensure Xbox provides the premier developer and gamer experience.

• Studio Technical Director for Blitz Games Studios responsible for guiding and implementing studio technology strategy roadmap, technical due diligence process and promoting technical excellence studio wide. Responsibility for direction, management and licensing of BlitzTech technology and team. Member of Studio Development Group reporting to CxO level and active member of Studio Executive Group. Active role in legal and business affairs where relevant as well as supporting pitch process… Show more • Studio Technical Director for Blitz Games Studios responsible for guiding and implementing studio technology strategy roadmap, technical due diligence process and promoting technical excellence studio wide. Responsibility for direction, management and licensing of BlitzTech technology and team. Member of Studio Development Group reporting to CxO level and active member of Studio Executive Group. Active role in legal and business affairs where relevant as well as supporting pitch process, studio manpower allocation, recruitment, project scoping and risk assessment. BlitzTech highlights include Puss in Boots (PS3, X360 Kinect, Wii), Dead to Rights (PS3, X360), Karaoke Revolution (PS3, X360), House of the Dead Overkill (PS3, Wii).• Technical direction and team management for BlitzTech technology team, growing team from 5 to over 30 staff supporting PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, Mac, 3DS, PS Vita, iOS, Android and browsers with a customer focus supporting both studio projects and commercial middleware licensing. Technical consulting role on all BlitzTech projects internally and externally to support technical risk, requirements, decision making and submission process.• Project Manager, programmer – BlitzTech studio technology (Sony PlayStation 2, PC)• Technical Manager, programmer - Zapper (Sony PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, PC)• Project Manager, programmer - The Mummy Returns (Sony PlayStation 2), Vivendi Universal• Project lead, programmer - various game pitch demos (Sony PlayStation and PlayStation 2)• Technical Manager, programmer - Action Man: Destruction X (Sony PlayStation), Hasbro/3DO• Programmer internal shared tools and libraries for Sony PlayStation used across studio titles – rendering, I/O, compression• Technical Manager, programmer - Action Man: Mission Xtreme (Sony PlayStation), Hasbro• Programmer, game designer - WarGames (PC DirectX), MGM Show less

• Programmer - research using early nVidia 'NV1' 3D graphics accelerator• Programmer - X-Men: X-Women (Sega Genesis), unpublished

• Project lead, programmer - Bug (Atari Jaguar), unpublished• Programmer - Waterworld (Sega Genesis), Ocean• Programmer - Mikey Mania (PC MS-DOS), Sony• Programmer - Pinkie (Amiga), Millennium• Project lead, programmer - X-It (Atari ST, Amiga), Psygnosis