Ricky Keller Email & Phone Number

Biloxi, Ms, Us

Leads the Manage Devices engineering feature team which is responsible for maintaining connections with different wallets, peripherals, and mobile devices.

Chicago, Il

Joined Kin + Carta as a developer at the Technical Consultant Band 4 level and had grown to become the Head of Web & Mobile Engineering for the Americas. He has led teams with technical direction for several Fortune 500 clients and played a visible role in consulting clients on technical solutions receiving an award for each publicly available application on which he’s spent 2 years or more.As the Head of Web & Mobile Engineering for the Americas, he was responsible for hiring, casting, training, and transforming all practice needs spanning our North and South American offices. He led a growing group of 120+ diverse and passionate engineers. Together they were able to engage in some fantastic thought leadership and break new ground for their clients.Before that role, he was the lead architect for a growing account which specializes in a variety of technologies ranging from ML to IoT. Since the first delivery of these two projects, they received great praise from their client for our expertise and have grown 2 teams into 9. The teams matured to adopt TDD as a main staple of our development cycle which helped drastically reduce the time between releases.In 2017 a mobile application he helped develop and architect ranked highest in customer satisfaction for J.D. Power's first U.S. Credit Card App Satisfaction Study.In 2015 he was selected from a list of applicants to play the role of architect and tech lead on two Kenyan initiatives. While in Nairobi they partnered with Shofco in Kibera to deliver an automated messaging system for their health clinic. They also partnered with a local developer, Eneza, to consult their team on agile transformation, gamification theory, UX principles, and technical efficiency and robustness.

Chicago, Il

Developing business applications for companies on Android and iOS platforms for a wide range of clients.Titles include:PPS PlusDisney's Frozen Karaoke

Developed a Three Card Monty style cup game for AARP on the Android platform using the AndEngine game engine.

Biloxi, Ms

I was the instructor for 10 students from ages 8-12. During the class we've covered core programming concepts using the platform Scratch created by MIT.

Hatfiled, Ma

Gameplay programming for iOS and Windows 8 titles.

Chicago, Il

Gameplay programming for Linux based slot machines.

Hidden Temple Studios is a mock-up company created at Full Sail University for our five month final project. We are a team mixed of three degrees here at Full Sail, three artists from the Game Art Degree, six programmers from the Game Development Degree, and two internal producers from the Game Design Masters Degree. Our team is named "Blue Barracudas" and we are creating a game called "Antibody". Antibody is an on rails shooter taking you through a virus killing adventure through the human body. I have contributed with the design phase, reported to executive producers, leading the integration of assets into our game build, tailored custom model, animation, and scene exporters, and assisted with gameplay programming.

Mobile Gaming Master Of Science, Mobile Game Development, 3.79 Gpa

Bachelor Of Science, Game Programming

Game Development October 2010