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Lehi, UT, US

• Established initial development team including game engineering, art, backend, and machine learning.
• Built VR prototypes in Unreal Engine and Unity, as a foundation for technology, sales, and marketing.
• Designed architecture meeting company objectives for VR frontend, backend and machine learning.

Lehi, Utah, US

• Technical direction for all data products, reporting directly to the CTO.
• Built 5 teams with 26 engineers, establishing the Data Engineering organization at MX.
• Hiring planning and budgeting, working with recruiters and interviewing.
• Directed the successful migration of the analytical platform from private data centers to GCP BigQuery.
• Created a new transactional data enrichment system, reducing the process from many hours to minutes.
• Implemented machine learning model for transaction categorization with word vectors using FastText.

Lehi, Utah, US

• Mobile banking app feature development on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone using a game engine.
• Implemented visual scripting tool for automated mobile testing in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and C++.
• Check image recognition using OpenCV and deep convolutional neural networks in C++ and TensorFlow.

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

• Entertainment Arts and Engineering (EAE): Master's Program classes taught:
• Game Engineering II & III - guided students through writing a game engine "from scratch" with level loading, octree spatial partitioning, camera control, AI, networked multiplayer, sound effects, and game rules.
• Artificial Intelligence - state machines, decision trees, steering behaviors, path finding (A* Search & Dijkstras), team logic, flocking, genetic algorithms, and neural networks
• Mobile Game Development - cross-platform app development, mobile game design, sprite sheets, Unity3D

Santa Monica, CA, US

• Full game programming including UI, audio, AI, game systems, game design, multiplayer, physics, etc.
• Synchronized multiplayer gameplay via WiFi and bluetooth on mobile
• Platforms: Unity, iOS, Android, Kindle, Web, and Facebook
• Titles: Frontier Heroes, PBR: Raging Bulls, Duck Dynasty: Battle of the Beards, Pet Peaves Monsters, Whirling Dervish, Cars Land/Racers, Battleship (Movie), Mickey’s Trick or Treat Party

Burbank, CA, US

• Led a team of 15 engineers to develop a Wii exclusive title at a new Disney studio.
• Implemented real-time Wii remote accelerometer signal processing as the main game input.
• Built a new visual scripting tool used primarily for AI, game logic, and UI. Shipped with 28 DGamer titles.
• Led a team providing studio-wide support for the custom-built Octane engine.
• Helped to successfully release a new animation engine which provided extensive dynamic features.
• Integrated FMOD audio engine hooks into custom game logic.

Salt Lake City, UT, US

• Ported custom Brainstorm engine to Playstation 3 hardware
• Dynamic object management with spatial partitioning
• Platforms: PS3, PS2, GameCube, XBox, PC, PSP
• Titles: Pac-Man World Rally, Snoopy vs The Red Baron, unreleased title

US

• AI and character programming
• Custom visual scripting tool
• Dynamic open-world loading system
• Assembly-level mobile game development
• Platforms: PS2, Xbox, mobile (pre-smart phone)
• Titles: Van Helsing, Pele Fútbol Challenge 3D

• Pathfinding and steering behaviors
• Dynamic object management with spatial partitioning
• Platforms: PS2, GameCube, Xbox, PC
• Titles: HotWheels: Velocity X, unpublished title

• Linux RPM Package Maintainer
• Product: OpenLinux

• Search Engine UI in Linux using Perl