Tim Welch Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Az, Us

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

* Responsible for facilitating the studio transition to Unreal for future project development* Trained the development staff on best practices with Unreal* Set up and directed maintenance of infrastructure, including Perforce implementation, and build infrastructure using Jenkins* Participated in interview panels and made hiring recommendations* Leadership-related responsibilities/activities including 1 on 1s, mentoring, training, and career development* Developed technical plans as needed to meet various game requirements, and guided engineers on their implementation* Performed hands-on engineering work as time permitted, such as engine and other middleware version integrations, Perforce server administration, and some game systems-level work, including authoring systems for 3rd person cameras and interactable objects

Reno, Nv, Us

* Participated in engineering staff planning, conducted interviews, and made hiring recommendations, while growing the engineering team from an initial headcount of a few engineers to a total of more than 50* Performed work-for-hire and internal project evaluation, work/staff planning, and ramp-up* Made significant contributions to initial company-wide online infrastructure planning and implementation, including Perforce and VPN setup in the cloud* Performed a variety of tasks related to engineering team leadership, including 1 on 1s, code reviews, mentoring, training, and guidance* Consulted with work-for-hire clients on best practices covering a variety of problem areas and project phases* Performed hands-on engineering work as needed

Los Angeles, California, Us

* Managed platform engineering team for RPVR LA studio, with responsibilities including task/bug assignment, code reviews, 1-on-1s, providing mentorship and advice, conflict resolution, and hands-on assistance solving various code issues as needed* Maintained lines of communication for varied engineering team comprised of onsite and remote company employees, full and part-time contractors, and external development partners, while coordinating with fellow technical leadership at RPVR sister studio in Canada* Created technical plans for various key platform elements/features, including requirements gathering from various stakeholders, time estimates, risks identification and potential mitigation strategies* Performed various support tasks including new developer onboarding/setup, automated packaged build setup and ongoing maintenance including tracking and fixing build errors, investigated and resolved Perforce server configuration issues, made recommendations for hardware/software/tools and internal process improvements

Led a small team of software engineers on Jedi: Fallen Order, while also making significant direct contributions, including the level loading system supporting 200+ sublevels per world with no loading screens, the game camera system, the build system, custom mergeable text-based serialization for data assets, and in-development and live game telemetry systems.

Frisco, Texas, Us

* End-to-end AI navigation - custom game-optimized, precise navigation mesh system, including pathfinding, path-following, and inexpensive navmesh-based physics, with multithreaded CSG-based build-time autogeneration from extracted source collision polys. Integrated into 3 titles so far; the first to ship commercially being Borderlands II.* Networked systems optimization - Refactored/rewrote some core gameplay systems (ex. cover) to make them more network-friendly.* General gameplay programming/support

* AI Navigation - Created a deterministic curve-based pathing system for non-combat AI to reduce network bandwidth. Worked on AI bot path following and obstacle avoidance systems.* Various networked gameplay system fixes and improvements.

Carlsbad, Ca, Us

* Worked with the cinematics department, and lead the effort on the programming side to build out a suite of camera systems and tools needed for cinematic 3rd-person action games, including the shipped title, Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy.* General gameplay programming - AI character creation, physics including vehicles and ragdoll tuning, weapon systems and related code such as aim assist, networked gameplay systems, shader modifications, etc.