May 2024 – Apr 2025 · 11 mos

• 1. Developed concepts for new casual gaming concepts utilizing Unity 3D
• 2. Developed proof of concept prototypes using generative AI.

Aug 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · Remote

• Engineering Manager for multiple direct reports for online social casino
• 1. Created numerous process improvements for code quality, Pull Requests, and workflow.
• 2. Immersed as a POD team captain in order to demonstrate best practices, and procedure to feature development team
• 3. Mentored/coached multiple direct reports in areas of leadership, process, and problem solving.
• 4. Created a documentation program with a techwriter for all methods/procedures to eliminate tribal knowledge.
• 5. Created a level up program -- where a set of internal training videos were generated in order to help self-train staff, onboard new staff, and reduce tribal knowledge.
• 6. Managed/lead multiple war room scenarios and coached developers on how to handle them.
• 7. Co-managed a crisis project and helped team organize in order to achieve deliverable.
• 8. Rebuilt an engineering team that had been suffering attrition, morale issues, and lack of process.

Dec 2020 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Remote

• Manage internal development staff
• Manage, develop, and deploy GameCo 3rd Party Developer Program
• Creation of best practices for software development for internal and external developers
• Manage technical support for 3rd party development teams abroad
• Institutionalize company knowledgebase
• Review internal and external software defects
• Work with game design team to see that creative vision is executed by development teams

Apr 2019 – Mar 2020 · 11 mos · Las Vegas

• Laid off due to Corona Virus Pandemic.
• Lead engineer on a high profile game title. Provided leadership, mentoring, and technical knowledge in order to turn around a difficult project. Managed technical resources, priorities, 3rd party components, and vendor relationships.
• Integrator of GameCo Platform, Unity, and 3rd party content.

Apr 2018 – Feb 2019 · 10 mos · Las Vegas Metropolitan Area

• Senior Engineer in advanced R & D lab responsible for rapid prototypes, IP research, IP filings, scouting new technologies.

Sep 2014 – Oct 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Las Vegas Metropolitan Area

• Develop software for high limit slot games. End to end development. Full life cycle for Class II and Class III markets.
• Developed the following slot games:
• Zodiac -- Class III/II
• Super 10x Deluxe -- Class III/II
• Super 5x Deluxe -- Class III/II
• Colossal Diamonds -- Class III/II (Port to Atlas platform)
• Colossal Stars -- Class III/II
• Cool Catz 20 Line -- port of legacy product.

May 2007 – Jun 2013 · 6 yrs 1 mo

May 2007 – Jun 2013 · 6 yrs 1 mo

• IGT Advanced Research Labs
• IGT Communal Games Systems/ Networked Games
• IGT Fusion Studios
• Member of Patent Review Committee
• Reviewed patents filings for business case
• Skunk works engineer -- advanced rapid prototypes
• Facebook server based game
• XNA based slot machine prototypez
• ActionScript 2 / 3 casino game rapid prototypes of new play mechanics
• Developed numerous casual game prototypes in ActionScript 3
• Research, and develop white papers
• Analyzed business cases for casual games
• Comprehensive research on re-skinning of EGM games
• Analyzed the social gaming marketplace
• Develop rapid prototypes for communal, and server based games
• AS3 / Electroserver / Java
• Received training from ElectroTank on the development of Multiplayer server based games
• Developed prototype of multiplayer board game with achievements

Sep 2005 – May 2007 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Co-Designed the PGIC intelligent skinning animation engine for their slot machine. Enabled their slot games to become completely data driven, re-utlize math, and change appearance by merely tuning data files and dropping in new assets.
• Assisted in the design, implementation, and testing of 10 slot titles.
• Involved end to end, from sofware design to test.

Jun 2004 – May 2005 · 11 mos

• Mobile phone video game development
• Worked on the port of Dragon's Lair, and various independent titles.
• Worked in a combination of C++/J2ME
• Company failed to stay solvent

Jan 2000 – Dec 2020 · 20 yrs 11 mos · Las Vegas, Nevada

• Private Consulting / R & D Laboratory
• Skunk works style advanced R & D (rapid prototypes for casino, mobile, casual, and social gaming industry, as well as the entertainment industry)
• Advanced Strategic Analysis -- technical whitepapers, corporate research, strategy guides, and market analysis.
• Publishing -- both print and digital
• Development of intellectual property, including filing for patents
• Casual game design
• Film production
• Prior Projects --
• (1) Comprehensive strategic research for major online poker concern. Development of 240 page report that analyzed:
• Features
• Competitive landscape
• Areas to improve.
• (2) Prototype of a mobile trivia game with a major licensed intellectual property tied to television. (Unity, and C#)
• (3) Development of a 2D shooter game in Unity utilizing 3D paper glasses.
• (4) Production, and Post Production of a motion picture with professional cast and crew utilizing known actors from film and television.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs · Cambridge, Wakefield, MA

• "Skunk Works" engineer dedicated to Marketing/Product Management
• Developed speech recognition user interfaces for speech portal product
• Developed tradeshow rapid prototypes
• Developed streaming audio solution which converted a live mp3 music stream to 8bit MuLaw for playback over mobile phones

Jan 1996 – Jan 1999 · 3 yrs

Jan 1993 – Jan 1996 · 3 yrs