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Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Architect, develop, direct, and manage all mobile application development. Trained a team of developers from all levels of experience. Developed bleeding-edge technologies and techniques to increase productivity, reduce cost, and raise the quality of products delivered. Personally developed and supervised development of over 40 apps released on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, including many top ranking applications and Apple featured “Apps of the Year”. Worked with clients such as Disney Publishing Worldwide, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Paramount, Smithsonian, Oakley, General Motors and more.

Design, develop, and publish complex strategy games for iOS, including Starbase Orion which has quickly became the premiere 4X space strategy game on the App Store. Designed and developed multiple award winning games for Mac OS X, games available on Apple Store shelves and published with Freeverse, Inc. Big Bang Board Games won two prestigious Apple Design Awards in 2004; bundled with all Apple computers released in the 2005 year. Vertex Next Generation won the Independent Games Festival’s Student Showcase and was on display at the 2001 Game Developer’s Conference. Four time winner in the uDevGames Game Programming contest, earning over $20,000 in cash and prizes.

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Lead application developer on the PlayerVision project; a slot machine upgrade solution for the Las Vegas Gaming industry. Developed all of the OpenGL-based user interfaces (customer facing, beverage service facing). Developed the visualization and application engine, developed software and infrastructure to deliver live streaming TV and streaming ad content to hundreds of devices. Developed tools and techniques to handle playback of streaming HD video content on a Mac Mini. Performed all user interface design and created all of the artwork for the apps. Developed the tools and technologies used for monitoring and testing of the applications.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Big Nerd Ranch specializes in hands-on computer classes and consultation. Developed a week-long course for OpenGL development. Instructed many classes in the use and development of OpenGL at Big Nerd Ranch’s teaching facilities.Consulted for Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. Lead application developer for one of the first Microsoft Surface installations for a bar venue at the Rio, Las Vegas. The Surface application involved development with Microsoft’s XNA, Microsoft’s Surface SDK, and others. The applications developed were casual game oriented; bowling, “simon”, multi-user pinball. Wrote the entire visualization and user interaction engine which used realistic physics manipulation to provide unique user experience on Surface.

Ft. Meade, Md, Us

Project lead and lead developer for an application which visualizes computer network activity. Capable of displaying network activity of fast networks in real time, the application allows play, pause, rewind, fast forward, and slow motion of live or archived feeds. Developed tools in support of research in generalized processing on a graphical processing unit using vertex shaders. Additional classified research and development was performed.