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Natick, Ma, Us

Burbank, Ca, Us

• Served as technical lead on Infinite Crisis team, providing design oversight and mentoring to junior engineers.• Trained as an Agile/Scrum Master and provided guidance to team as methodology was adopted.• Supervised design, implementation, and maintenance of larger game systems, including client/server synchronization, combat, and client/server communication protocol. • Integrated and managed third-party SDKs to provide base game services, including Havok, Kynapse, and Wwise Audio SDK versions.• Implemented game logic for several game characters using C++ and a proprietary finite state machine system.• Participated in strike team that ported the server-side version behind Infinite Crisis to Linux, including the implementation of a new Ubuntu-based Linux development environment managed and shared through Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox.• Implemented metrics reporting for many game systems using JSON format and reporting to syslogd, also provided support to the game, marketing and e-commerce teams for reporting on game metrics using Splunk.

Burbank, Ca, Us

• Collaborated with several engineers on design of internal development framework that acted as wrapper around complex set of steps required for asset managed by company. This reduced ramp-up time of new team members by 80% and significantly reduced build errors and downtime for the development teams.• Increased productivity for The Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online teams through improvements to asset pipeline tools and the build environments.• Designed and implemented new pipeline stages for asset work when preparing for unannounced console projects.• Directed smaller team of engineers through designing and developing significant changes to combat and advancement systems of The Lord of the Rings Online to support prototype player vs. player combat system.

Needham, Massachusetts, Us

• Managed engineering division on first major expansion for The Lord of the Rings Online, The Mines of Moria game.• Directed a team of ten engineers for the duration of the project, including managing schedules of deliverables, regular meetings to discuss and track career growth, and writing and delivering annual reviews.• Initiated meetings with other departments to coordinate priorities for project deliverables.

Needham, Massachusetts, Us

• Served as technical lead on The Lord of the Rings Online team, providing design oversight and mentoring to junior engineers.• Oversaw design, implementation, and maintenance of larger game systemsincluding combat, crafting and customer service support features.. • Debugged server issues as they arose, including crash dumps, as well as investigating reports of gameplay exploits.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Designed and implemented generic data model and plug-in framework for HighGround Storage Resource Manager 4.0 to handle management information for storage hardware.• Worked with MS SQL Server 7.0/2000 and MS IIS.• Utilized object-oriented design with C/C++/DCOM implementation on MS Windows platforms.• Managed engineering relationships with major storage hardware and software vendors to support products with this framework.• Performed extensive memory leak analysis and implemented fixes that significantly improved resource utilization of product.• Completed performance analysis of central data processing modules as well as implemented fixes that improved efficiency.• Directed a team of eight developers tasked to update UNIX-based support for Sun Storage Resource Manager 6.0.• Led team to design distributed data collection mechanisms for clustered environments on Sun Solaris and MS Windows. • Oversaw design of script interface for data collectors, significant architectural updates to prior UNIX data collector, and porting effort of generic plug-in framework from Windows platform.• Produced low-level network protocol used for distributed data collectors.• Directed risks and timetable for team’s portion of whole SRM 6.0 upgrade project.• Served as mentor for junior-level engineers.• Drafted next generation of enterprise-class storage management software for Sun Microsystems.

Redesigned back-end data management for DCE “secd” service and replaced it with LDAP-enabled solution. Performed duties including DCE source code, analysis of data flow within DCE, and complete design and implementation of new LDAP-enabled DCE data store. Acted as company representative on Open Group committee working to propose standard LDAP data schema for DCE registry data integration with enterprise personnel records stored in LDAP directory. Trained in areas including LDAP server installation, maintenance and use, and LDAP development.

Houston, Texas, Us

Supported RAID controller management utility for UNIX and VMS using C/C++ and Motif for GUI. Developed client-server RAID controller management utility using C/C++ and Rogue Wave Tools.h++ under Windows NT, Digital/Tru64 UNIX, and OpenVMS. Utilized TCP/IP sockets and multithreading, using Win32 and POSIX. Trained in object-oriented development, C++ and Java programming, and XML basics, using MFC, POSIX multithreading, and SCSI protocol.

East Hartford, Ct, Us

Upgraded and maintained 250-client PC network running Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Oversaw OpenVMS Alpha and Windows NT servers. Designed and implemented various network management tools, using Visual Basic and DDE, including application distribution, license management, and remote workstation configuration management.

Dnc, M.S. Computer Science

Bachelor, Computer Science