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Berlin, Germany

Managing the AI team on Unreal Engine

Berlin, Germany

CTO and co-founder of a new gaming studio in Berlin working on a new survival RPG game for PC+consoles, and tools to procedurally generate gaming world and gameplay at runtime.Hiring of engineers. Sourcing, vetting, interviewing, onboarding.Technical leadership, architecture and implementation of multiple game systems.Managing and mentoring a team of 5 engineers, and external contractors. Regular 1:1s with permanent team members.Budgeting and purchasing, including licenses and setting up contracts for services the company required.Created multiple gameplay systems, including a modular building system (similar to Valheim), a world-scale magic energy propagation system (large float arrays and algorithms), combat systems, inventory and all the other staples found in RPGs

Berlin

Lead Engineer for an unannounced large scale strategy game made in Unreal Engine.Responsible for architecture set up, and mentoring and leading a team of engineers.

Berlin, Germany

Principal Engineer on an unannounced strategy game.

Berlin Area, Germany

At Klang Games I worked as a gameplay and AI programmer, working on the simulation that will bring the world of the Seed MMO to life!Worked on gameplay and AI systems including:- Utility-based AI- Influence Maps system, using Unity DOTS- Other gameplay features like: Logistics, skills and crafting & production.

Greater Atlanta Area

Re-located to the CCP North America office to join a small team of VR enthusiasts taking a fun game prototype and turning it into a full game. We then shipped the game Sparc on Playstation VR on August 29th 2017.Responsibilities on this project included:- Fast iteration on gameplay and game design for a new type of virtual sport- Physics and projectile interactions for a networked game- Design and implementation of the single-player Challenges game mode- Work on porting the game to new VR hardware- Console development on the PS4 for Playstation VR

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom / Reykjavik, Iceland

Founder of the EVE-VR project which was an experiment in bringing the EVE Universe to virtual reality.See: http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/eve-vr-an-experiment-in-bringing-virtual-reality-to-the-eve-universe/That project later became an official CCP product called EVE: Valkyrie, which is being developed in CCP's Newcastle studio.I relocated to the UK in July 2013 where I worked as a Senior Programmer on the Valkyrie project until July 2016 when I moved to the CCP Atlanta studio.My responsibilities in Newcastle were mainly programming C++ code in Unreal Engine 4 and involved with anything that had to do with VR software/hardware integration and features.

Reykjavik, Iceland

2013: One of the founders and programmer of the EVE-VR project. This was game prototype made for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, based in the EVE Universe. Later this project became EVE: Valkyrie.See: http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/eve-vr-an-experiment-in-bringing-virtual-reality-to-the-eve-universe/2011-2013: Worked on the Dust 514 Virtual Goods backend service. This is a REST-based web service used by the Dust client.2009-2011: Lead developer on the EVE Gate project which is a social networking site for EVE Online players as well as exposing game functionality on the web. Influential in architecture and technical solutions for connecting a website to the game cluster.

Reykjavik, Iceland

Worked on a few different projects including designing and developing the bank‘s main CRM system. Tasks included integrating the CRM system with the bank's data warehouse and most of the backend systems.Last 2 years there I worked as an architect on a few different projects and lead developer for the online banking solution where I was involved in a redesign effort converting the project over to new technology like ASP.NET MVC and jQuery.

Reykjavik, Iceland

Main project was the development of a multimedia CD for the Icelandic tourism industry. The application was a visual presentation of a database filled with information on Iceland and companies in the tourism industry - including photographs, videos and more.I also developed promotional material for a few large Icelandic companies including Icelandair, Egill Skallagrímsson and Edda hotels.