Tom Plunket Email & Phone Number

Solving problems, one at a time.

Ontario, California, Us

Intent on building a global scale simulation engine.

Orange County, Ca, Us

Spun up a team to own data acquisition, processing, and service of anything broadly consider "map data" to a wide spectrum of clients. If a user wants to see satellite imagery or a robot needs a 3D model of the environment, our team finds, formats, and delivers that data in the domain appropriate for the use case, whether the client has high speed, low latency access to public internet or is in a disconnected environment with intermittent connections to its peers. Cut in-field failures of mapping systems from ~50% (as expressed by management) to 0 over 2023 and developed systems to reliably deploy high-rez map data to austere and disconnected environments.Previously, a developer working on the native client for Lattice, a desktop/2D and VR application, where my focus was on on usability for developers as well as users with some team management thrown in.

Ontario, California, Us

Making things amazing and making amazing things with people who demand the same of themselves. Wide-ranging experience encompassing technology from casino-based video slots to in-home VR. Strong focus on making it easier to make things, from API design and development to scripting Photoshop, 3dsmax, and After Effects. Not only do I get the stuff done you need to get done, I also make it easier for everyone else on the team to get their stuff done. The easier stuff is to make, the better that stuff will be.

While I was officially the lead tools developer at Immersive, my breadth of experience has me regularly mentoring the more junior team members across the team, from AI to networking and special effects. Indeed, I think I've actually worked on more non-tools development than tools specifically; while the tools are certainly important to development workflow my ability to get into the depths of Unreal and figure out what's going on has proven valuable on numerous occasions, either to help a teammate out directly or to develop a solution that a teammate can use later.

Responsible for writing code to do a number of different things; mostly working on toolchain and some engine-side code as well.

Spun off from THQ.

Agoura Hills, Ca, Us

Firefighter, closer. Camera controllers, racer AI collision avoidance, data persistence. Speaking my mind on all topics. Worked on eight shipped games in less than three years.

Doing that which herding cats requires, e.g. being light on my feet, responding to problems as they arrive, and understanding what might come up down the road so we can be prepared for whatever may come.

Carlsbad, Ca, Us

Code visionary, in charge of high-level system architecture and keeping the coders on the straight and narrow path away from cruft and poor code.

Defined programming best practices. Led the charge for sustainable development practices. Implemented a lot of code.

Wrote a lot of 3D Studio plugin code. Wrote many of the low-level data converters. Engineering evangelizer. Firefighter. Provided extensive support for the rest of the team on C++ issues and bug identification and patching.

On the Syphon Filter series: Wrote the entire toolchain. Wrote most of the low-level gamestate management code. Wrote entire user interface including front-end and in-game menu, included a fully-featured window-based text display system.Hired toward the end of Bubsy3D development, providing solutions to showstopper can't-ship-with-these bugs that the senior programmers couldn't solve. Here started my journey as a firefighter.Eidetic was bought by SCEA in February 2000.

House monitor, fix-it guy, general do-whatever dude with a pager. Managed campers' activities and attitudes, fixed drywall, repaired bus engines. Went huge off the Glory Jumps, stoked out campers by being the laid-back mellow guy with big moves.