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Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Lead Engineer responsible for ground-up creation of skill gaming platform. Accountable for the design and implementation of scalable platform systems such as financial transactions, analytics, matchmaking, leaderboards, authentication/authorization, and account management. Responsible for team culture, mentoring and coaching, building the development process and ensuring output quality.Grew a team of 6 engineers across 3 locations into an effective and empowered agile development group.Worked with game teams in multiple locations to meet requirements and effect platform integration.Prioritized monitoring and testing systems to support development, product launches and live operations.Designed and implemented scalable and extensible cross-game features.Collaborated with VP of Product Development and Sr. Producers to create, track and communicate development milestones. Worked with game team to improve their development process.Relevant Tech: Ruby/Rails/AWS/MySQL/Unity

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Software Development Manager supervising development group of 12 members in 3 teams. Responsible for department culture and output as well as budget, resourcing and coordination with other departments. Prioritized department opportunities and created focus plan. Grew development team by interviewing and hiring new members.Prioritized department opportunities and created focus plan.Created end-to-end customized agile process for data processing team to improve reliability and predictability. Created and began implementation of plan to address leadership vacuum on web app team.Grew development team by interviewing and hiring 2 new members.

Engineering Manager supervising engineering group on agile mobile game development and live operations team. Support and direct Lead Engineer, Technical Lead Engineer and software engineering team. Improved team moral and lowered stress levels.Set team quality targets and monitor engineering production delivery and development processes. Set employee development targets and conduct employee evaluations. Improved the teams output quality.Work with engineering leads and Development Director to optimize agile development process. Collaborate with Engineering Director and Studio Head to formulate and implement long term direction.Design, implementation, deployment and monitoring of back-end components. Coordinate daily work of server engineering team. Responsible for monitoring and reporting server quality metrics for studio game teams.Relevant Tech: Node.js/AWS/MongoDB/Redis/Lua/PubNub/Unity/Android/iOS

Lead Engineer responsible for technical and process elements of large scale and high volume (~1M DAU) system which provided user authentication, user management, financial transaction and financial tracking services for DeNA 1st, 2nd and 3rd party titles and internal departments.Planned, architected, directed, implemented and deployed zero downtime live migration of multiple high-value products from legacy systems to improved technology stack.Designed and implemented system visibility and monitoring components. Coordinated needs of many clients (Game Teams, Marketing, Business Development, Finance, Support, etc). Distilled feature requirements and worked with Sr. Management to create and execute delivery schedule. Extracted, architected and implemented new domain requirements. Coordinated and directed team members using agile methodologies.Ensured system quality, correctness and stability.Identified and addressed production and technical risks. Worked with Department Director and others to develop and implement strategy. Worked with and supported system clients in the adoption and use of the service. Relevant Tech: Java/Google Cloud Platform/Dataflow/Google Web Toolkit/Unity/Android/iOS

Led highly capable and high performing agile software engineering teams on multiple major IP titles. Directed engineering resources to match business and production goals and ensured team delivered features on time and to a high standard of quality.Collaborated with design, engineering, art, QA and production teams and devised optimal technical solutions to game requirements.Architected and implemented client and server features for free to play mobile games. Innovated and iterated on development process, systems and technology. Identified and accounted for technical and production risks. Responsible for live operation delivery, support, monitoring and workflow development.Relevant Tech: Java/Node.js/Python/AWS/Google Cloud Platform/GWT/MongoDB/Unity/C#/Android/iOS

Designed and implemented ( http://captureplay.com ) a scalable real-time micro-transaction platform.Managed small agile front-end team. Deployed and maintained enterprise-scale web application in remote cloud environment. Created real-time user experiences using server push architecture.Designed and developed client-server financial transaction system and API.Worked with Co-Founder to determine project planning and scheduling and on investor relations planning, material preparation and site metrics.Implemented real-time HTML5/Node.js game and integrated multiple games into the CapturePlay system. Designed and implemented rapid prototypes and graphic user interfaces.Relevant Tech: Java/Node.js/AWS/Ruby/Rails/PHP/JavaScript/PHP/HTML/CSS/GWT/ICE/ MYSQL/Tomcat/Nginx/Comet

Designed and carried out primate survey and habitat study in rugged Ecuadorian terrain. Coordinated field team and local parabiologist activities.Conducted statistical analysis of results and authored academic paper and related website.Provided digital graphic design and nature photography services.

Led team in winter tree identification and collection of habitat data at Point Pelee National Park. Trained field team and directed daily activities. Coordinated field team activities with Terrasystems Research and park officials.Prepared preliminary statistical analysis of results and co-authored report submitted to Parks Canada.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Implemented graphical user interface screens and simulation systems for NHL 2004Relevant Tech: C/C++

Lead and/or participated in QA team for multiple console titles.Worked closely with programmers and artists in the discovery and resolution of bugs.Created “monkey” system for automated UI testing.

Masters, Environmental Studies

B Sc., Computer Science