Utomik is a smashing new online gaming service which is now live! Visit www.utomik.com to learn more. My main responsibilities at Utomik include managing our game content portfolio and developing our intellectual property.

Worked on "smart stream"; technology that improves the user experience of people playing Kalydo powered games, and on improving the ETL process for the statistics service in our game management console. Previously I worked on Kalydo Compact (compression) and Kalydo Social (streaming & browser integration), acquisition and development of game integration projects, maintaining our knowledge base, reviewing documentation, maintaining intellectual property, contract and license agreement reviews, and maintaining our employment conditions.

Overseeing technical development of games for the Kalydo Platform (Robo Rescue, Mahjong Mountain, Robo Brix, Goof Bubbles, Haven, Cube Kingdom), game developer relations, maintaining content for our dreamcreateplay developer site, game development documentation, support and some game / tools programming.

Programming games which were eventually released on the Kalydo platform (Adrenalin Rush, Oggo's Odyssey, Konstrukt Invasion, Cube, and many prototypes), and developing parts of the game engine (mainly basic AI, game objects, and improving the scene graph).

Did not finish because of the Kalydo startup. Wrote articles about an experimental user interface for mp3 players, playlist creation using this interface, quadtree relief mapping (an image-space visualisation technique), and combinatorial geometry. My main research topic was actually about navigating virtual environments, using computational geometry. The last article I worked on was about the complexity of the visibility polygon from a line segment, using realistic input models.

Internship at Philips for my graduation project. Designed, implemented and tested an experimental user interface for mp3 players. Wrote an article about this user interface, called the artist map, for ISMIR 2004. Later extended with visual playlist generation, as presented on ISMIR 2005.