Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 · 11 mos · Remote

• Summary: In this role I crossed many boundaries and acted as engineer, producer, product manager
• and designer. I was the owner of the build, its delivery and quality on a day to day basis.
• Organization: Quickly and effectively brought about significant organizational change by:
• ○ Reorganized multiple feature teams to improve prioritization and development
• ○ Led planning for multiple Milestones bringing deeper clarity to the process
• ○ Owned build quality, providing studio wide development direction
• ○ Primary engineering liaison for Design
• ○ Laid out a process for crisis management
• ○ Cut through red tape and delivered a Crash Aggregation solution, including negotiation of the
• final contract.
• ○ Led the charge to continuous deployment to better ensure people could test their changes.
• Code: Provided technical direction and implementationby:
• ○ Led the architecture for the incorporation of procedural objectives and their inclusion in existing
• procedural
• ○ Handled initial integration and evaluation of the mutable plugin for character customization
• purposes.
• ○ Provided direction and evaluation for multiple teams: Enemies/AI, Player, Missions and
• DevOps/Build
• ○ Led improvements to a variety of systems: Feature Flags, Automated Testing, Unreal Game
• Sync, Metrics.
• People: Supported and Empowered Individuals by:
• ○ Provided mentorship to individuals of all disciplines and levels from junior ICs to senior
• managers.
• ○ Began building a culture of feedback, a well received endeavor that increased usage of the
• internal positive feedback channel

Sep 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Final DRI for all technology & engineering concerns at the company
• Responsible for the strategic technological vision and management of the company for software,
• devOps and IT
• Partnered with Operations, Production, Design, Art and QA
• Evaluated and negotiated with third party providers for various solutions
• Evangelized agile methodology when appropriate for our product management
• Managed and built relationships with European outsourcers.
• Empowered individuals to take ownership and make sound, well reasoned decisions.
• Drove a number of major initiatives such as:
• ○ Kicking off and inspiring the engineering and design teams to build automated tests (for
• both in and out sourced individuals)
• ○ Oversaw the migration from SVN to Perforce
• ○ Investigating and integrating a crash aggregation service
• ○ Visualization and metrics for data driven development
• ○ Partnered with Operations for the sunset of the physical office.
• ○ Successfully rolled out Analytics in an older product to better inform current development.
• Self sourced and hired 8 individuals in Software Engineering, DevOps, IT and Management for a
• total cost of under $25,000
• Developed standards and expectations for the organization
• Regularly met with and mentored all reports and reports of reports.

May 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Initially responsible for a team of 4 engineers and with hiring brought that number up to 8.
• Projects
• ○ Horizon Homeworld: Answering the question of ‘What does it mean to have a home space in a platform
• where you could develop your own?’
• ■ Feature was highly awaited by the community
• ■ Reviewed at the highest levels of the company up to and including CEO.
• ○ Looking for Party
• ■ Led team to implement a looking for party experiment, to test whether or not starting worlds with
• other people at the same time improved retention.
• ■ This work also included preparation to build a party system based on Horizon Worlds’ needs as
• opposed to using the existing Oculus Party infrastructure.
• ○ Focus for the team was initially on growth, new user experience and retention and player housing.
• ○ Oversaw and launched updates to the New User Experience (NUX), creation of ‘playable NUX’, Looking
• for Group System, and initial prototyping of Homeworld (player housing)
• ○ Playable NUX retention by 7% in a statistically significant manner.
• Personnel
• ○ Understanding what makes a good engineer: Guided two individuals to promotion from mid to senior, one
• from junior to mid and another rotational engineer to graduation (effectively junior to mid)
• ○ Demonstrated course correction: Took an underperforming IC5 and within a half guided them to a
• position where they are overperforming
• Organization
• ○ Developed the organization’s first onboarding plan
• ○ Revamped the Developer Experience plan, by streamlining and dividing responsibilities into more
• reasonable chunks.
• ○ Identified gaps in the calibration/mashup process and organized/drove additional mashups with other
• managers to ensure we had coverage for individuals who might have otherwise been overlooked.

Jul 2017 – May 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Foster City, CA

• Responsible for architecture and technical management/direction of simulation platform including application
• releases, infrastructure and inter-team coordination
• Responsible for evaluation and direction of goals for the simulation platform.
• Pioneered process and documentation for the release process of multiple in-house Unreal Engine 4 applications.
• Took ownership of a new AI visualization Application and led the team to bring it with feature parity of the old AI
• Visualization.
• Provided evaluation and purchase recommendation of various third party software and licenses.
• Drove and managed the upgrade of Unreal 4.15 to 4.21
• Assisted on post-drive validation pipeline including scenario language development
• Administrator of Git, Perforce, Continuous Integration/Build Machines.

Mar 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Responsible for managing, hiring, mentoring and scheduling a team as large as 13.
• Sole Architect and implentor of the Minion System, the second most engaged system in Rift.
• Responsible for abilities, combat, animation, and harvesting systems
• Initiated and managed various major initiatives: Account wide data system (GUD), Commerce System Refactor,
• New Build System, 64 bit upgrade, Anti-bot initiative, Auto-mute system, Multicore Upgrade (managed only), On Demand Guild loading (managed only)
• Groomed backlog and ensured scheduling to include time to address technical debt.
• Assisted actively in PR work for Rift by being active on the forums and authoring multiple articles, some of which
• were for or organically picked up by the gaming media. (List at bottom)
• Saved company significant sums of money by effectively communicating to the Legal Department the failures of a third party contractor.

Mar 2014 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr

Dec 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Made significant improvements to the organization (planning, task tracking etc.) of the programming team.
• Spearheaded improvements to the QA Team and its associated processes
• Improved and contributed to the interview and hiring process
• Took ownership of Killing Floor and Red Orchestra 2's Steam integration.
• Took ownership of some of the most 'hated' areas of code and improved them.
• Took initiative and developed a dynamic event system

Oct 2008 – Oct 2011 · 3 yrs · Atlanta, GA

• Team Lead and Product Owner for the infrastructure team-tasked with ensuring everyone in the project was capable of working at any given moment.
• Member of the Architecture team.
• Architected a variety of systems including player created quests, buff/modifier systems, and artificial intelligence
• Integrated Kynapse pathfinding middleware.
• Worked with Havok, inparticular ragdoll and collision
• Assisted on engineering a Pure Transform system in C++ to handle important game logic.
• Programming on level editting tools.
• Engineered and led team to develop in game AI using the above Pure Transform system.

May 2008 – Aug 2008 · 3 mos

• Wii/360/PC/Engine work.

Sep 2006 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Worked on 2 Released DS titles, did near start-beta work on a third. Also did work on a mutliplayer PC title, unreleased.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr