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Kirkland, WA, US

Bellevue, WA, US

Bellevue, WA, US

• Elected to the Board of Directors in January 2019(2019-2020)
• Member of the Compensation Committee
• Chair of the Audit Committee(2020-2021)
• Member of the Audit Committee
• Chair of the Compensation Committee

Bellevue, WA, US

• Responsible for analyzing, socializing, and implementing the necessary changes to create a Central Technology organization
• Responsible for strategic partnerships with focus on technology innovations
• Responsible for driving Cloud strategy including partner evaluation, negotiations, engagements, and R&D
• Responsible for evaluating the game technology landscape and making recommendations to the CTO

Bellevue, WA, US

• Responsible for product delivery, engineering quality, and team health for an organization of ~50 people
• Responsible for managing the Publishing Development organization at Bungie with focus on career development, morale, and team health
• Responsible for the technology roadmap and vision on the areas of cloud, online services, infrastructure, and game security
• Member of both the engineering leadership team and the product leadership team
• Responsible for partner engagements with Google, Amazon, and NetEase
• Key contributor for the evaluation process of partners engagements, new technologies/platforms, and new business opportunities

Bellevue, WA, US

Joined the board of directors as an observer to learn the different functions of the board and understand the strategy and rhythm of the business.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Hold engineering leadership role, managing a team of 30+ individuals in different areas of engineering/technology including Services, Live, DevOps, UI, Competitive, Social, Microtransactions, and Investment.
• Responsible for all team leadership functions including recruiting, hiring, interviewing, coaching, retention, and performance evaluation
• Led the creation and institutionalization of a new engineering internship program at Bungie designed to help the company recruit highly specialized talent and attract the “best and brightest” early-career technology.
• Established and facilitated a special “Engineering Summit” initiative at Bungie to facilitate improved cross-group and cross-studio knowledge sharing
• Member of the Destiny 2 Live Leadership Team, leading the game’s Engineering/Business functions and managing engineering relationships with top global Studios and Partners including High Moon Studios in San Diego.
• Manage the Destiny 2 Technology Roadmap, responsible for determining the capitalization of R&D projects and evaluating ongoing Downloadable Content decisions, Quality of Life updates, and minor and major expansions

Bellevue, WA, US

• Engineering Lead for the company’s award-winning Destiny product (BAFTA Game of the Year, Game Awards Best Online Technology, Best of Gamescom)
• Built technology roadmaps, evaluated risks, and ensured that all new experiences delivered fit within the allocated memory budgets
• Developed an innovative cross-platform Matchmaking system that enabled a range of different social experiences related to the game; this functionality presented a great many unique challenges, including skill.
• Responsible for working with different QA teams to design comprehensive test plans for validating both algorithmic functionality, ecosystem balancing issues, and scale tests; the success of these approaches ensured.
• Led the development team through the product’s Alpha, Beta, and Ship stages, delivering a high quality experience at launch
• Additionally became the face for Bungie Latin American PR, attending top industry conferences, participating in press roundtables in Spanish with Activision and Sony, and giving interviews to multiple media outlets in.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Engineer on the Online team, responsible for prototyping different networked AI solutions with the goal of reducing bandwidth requirements for the peer to peer network replication system
• Greatly improved the workflow for complex network scenarios requiring multiple machines, upgrading the game engine to support running multiple instances of the game on a single machine; these key workflow improvements.
• Additionally worked as Engineer on the Destiny prototype team, working on content creation tools, researching techniques and technologies for terrain editing, building the infrastructure for the next generation terrain.
• Developed a 3d vector field terrain editor using GPU brushes and high performance shaders for terrain operations; the terrain engine core was created in C++ and the user interface in C#, with a small managed C++ glue.

Bellevue, WA, US

• Member of the infrastructure team, responsible for different low level systems such as asynchronous commands, game events, crash handling and reporting, and threading facilities – in addition to research on different.
• Maintained the asynchronous system, a multithreaded job manager that was used to service IO/web/content requests in parallel; the system required serious refactoring to better address the needs of the title and.
• Added support for multithreaded command buffer generation to the engine, which resulted in considerable CPU rendering performance gains

Redwood City, CA, US

• Graphics Engineer on the Madden 2010 team, responsible for the design and implementation of different graphics features for both PS3 and Xbox 360 including a new shader build system, a self-shadow system for players.
• Co-developed a new system for reporting and tracking game crashes on retail consoles, a system which was then being adopted by different studios across EA
• Products shipped include Madden 2010; heavy use of C++ and C# languages

Bellevue, WA, US

• Graphics Engineer, responsible for development and maintenance of Halo3's lightmap generation system; the system performed complex lighting simulations using photon mapping for global illumination and ray packets/kd.
• Member of the tools team, responsible for creating studio-wide tools, improving workflows, investigating and fixing defects, and sharing/incorporating technology with Microsoft Game Studios.
• Created tools for detecting and capturing crashes/assets found in games, including creating a custom dump for debugging that was subsequently used by studios inside and outside Microsoft (Xbox 360 minidumps)
• Additionally worked as a Lead managing the development and maintenance of Bungie's distributed asset processing system, using over 200 servers and 400 processors
• Games shipped include Halo 3, Halo 2 Vista, Kameo: Elements of Power, and Halo 2 Multiplayer Map Pack; key languages used include C++, C#

Redmond, Washington, US

• Member of the Visual Studio Team (Developer Tools) responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of different components for a large-scale framework used to automate functionality in Visual Studio
• Products shipped: Visual Studio.NET, Visual Studio.NET 2003; Languages used: C++, C#, VB.NET

Brea, California, US

• Responsible for prototyping data analysis applications in C# and.NET and for creating different graphing components for data visualization (i.e. scatter plots, histograms, etc)

• Recruited by NASA/FIU Research Lab to help develop knowledge management solutions, including the design and implementation of middle-tier components for backend systems used by NASA's internal website to enable.
• Key languages used: C++, COM, Python

Technology Management Mba

Ms, Computer Science

Certificate, Game Development

Bs, Computer Science