Sep 2019 – Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 9 mos · San Ramon

• Founding technology executive for Striking Distance Studios, responsible for defining and executing the studio’s technology strategy, organization, and culture. Partnered with creative, production, and publishing leadership to build the studio from inception and deliver its first AAA title, The Callisto Protocol.
• Key Achievements:
• Built the studio’s technology organization from the ground up, scaling to 100+ engineers, technical artists, and data specialists across multiple disciplines.
• Led development and delivery of The Callisto Protocol — a visually ambitious survival horror title built in Unreal Engine 4 for next-gen consoles and PC.
• Defined and implemented the studio’s technical vision, standards, and engineering processes across platform, tools, infrastructure, and data domains.
• Partnered with creative and production leadership to align technology with storytelling and design goals, enabling cinematic, real-time experiences at AAA quality.
• Established scalable development pipelines, automation, and performance standards that improved delivery efficiency and reduced operational costs.
• Drove innovation in AI systems, rendering, and workflow automation, enhancing iteration speed and visual fidelity.
• Fostered a studio-wide culture of collaboration, empowerment, and excellence, developing senior leaders and cross-functional teams capable of delivering under pressure.

Aug 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 8 mos · Little River, California, United States · Remote

• Provide strategic guidance and mentorship to multiple gaming studios and platforms, helping leadership teams scale technology, optimize workflows, and align product strategy with creative and business goals.
• Active Advisory Roles:
• Advisor - Plaiful Inc (Dec 2025- Present)
• Shape product and technical vision for an AI-native Game Operating System built on agentic systems
• Advise on scalable platform architecture (microservices, AI integration, live-ops infrastructure) to enable adaptive, real-time gameplay
• Support studio partnerships and position Plaiful as core infrastructure for next-generation game development
• Advisor — AccelByte Inc (Aug 2019 – Present)
• Provide strategic guidance on business operations, growth, and technology strategy.
• Facilitate introductions to strategic partners, investors, and clients.
• Mentor executive leadership and advise on talent acquisition and organizational design.
• Past Advisory Roles:
• Technology Advisor — Midwest Games (Aug 2023 – Dec 2025 | Remote)
• Advise on technology strategy, product development, and studio operations.
• Provide industry insight and advocacy to support leadership in navigating technical and market challenges.
• Act as a trusted executive partner, connecting leadership with best practices across gaming technology and production.
• Advisor — Already There (Jul 2025 – Oct 2025 | Remote)
• Mentored leadership and development teams, sharing industry expertise.
• Advised on product strategy and organizational development.
• Advisor — Magnetik Gameworks (Feb 2024 – Dec 2024 )
• Provide strategic guidance on product vision, technology strategy, and team leadership.
• Advise on developer tools, software development lifecycle, and operational best practices.
• Support leadership in solving technical and strategic challenges, aligning technology solutions with business goals.

Mar 2016 – Aug 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Partnered directly with leadership teams across publishing and studios , helping them define and implement technology strategies required to deliver top quality games. In this period this resulted in 26 products on 8 platforms across 12 studios contributing to over $1.7B in sales.
• Identified the tools and processes required across multiple projects and studios delivering a workbench of products and pipelines used across multiple million dollar franchises
• Improved the analysis of technical design through milestone procedures influencing and approving overall technology investment.
• Identified advances in technology and proposed new innovations that will benefit 2k Products now and in the future, including new platform technology and other emerging software development innovations.
• Drove 2K technology and middleware contracts resulting in million dollar savings across the label.
• Built a core technology team to create evolving infrastructure to be used across games and platforms resulting in a successful D2C platform and a backend service supporting multiple client platforms

Dec 2014 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Restructured the Core Technology department to improve product quality across the 2k portfolio by building a team of high quality individual contributors that advised and directed 2K studios technical investment.
• In this period 2k products delivered average 80+ metacritic across multiple franchises and platforms.
• Defined the technical milestone deliverables for 2k products providing consistent deliverables across internal and external studios. This included creating the technical due diligence template used to sign new studios to the label.
• Work with studios throughout the product lifecycle to ensure effective progress on all technical aspects of development
• Direct a team of senior technology specialists
• Manage scheduling and production on Core Tech software development projects.
• Plan tactical responses to shifts in the technical landscape
• Perform technical due diligence for tactical business opportunities
• Coordinate the technical aspects of relationships with partners such as console first parties, hardware & software vendors

Sep 2014 – Dec 2014 · 3 mos · Mountain View, CA

• Providing creative direction, production validation, and games industry insights.

Jun 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 10 mos · Little River, California, United States · Hybrid

• Founded a boutique consultancy specializing in technology, production, and business strategy for the video games industry. Partnering with studios, publishers, and investors to accelerate development, improve commercial outcomes, and build sustainable creative and technical teams.
• Highlights:
• Provide executive-level advisory to independent and AAA studios across development, operations, and strategic planning.
• Support studio founders and creative leads with business modeling, pitch development, and investor readiness.
• Deliver technology and production assessments for publishers and private equity groups evaluating new IP or studio acquisitions.
• Mentor leadership teams on culture, scalability, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Known for providing pragmatic, actionable insight that bridges creativity, technology, and business growth.

Jun 2013 – Jan 2014 · 7 mos · San Francisco

• Brought my experience in partner relations to improve Zynga's failing relationship with their primary platform partner. This newly formed publishing role was multifaceted covering operational as well as strategic management of the account. In this period I was responsible for planning the release of all Zynga’s games on iOS and Mac App stores I championed Apple key initiatives at Zynga including game controller support , cross platform play and toys to life with great success measured by multiple high level app store features and accolades.
• Responsible for the overall partner relationship, including: strategic planning, revenue growth targets and all operations necessary to profitably retain, grow and service the customer.
• Managed all product launches and updates for the company on Apple Platforms.
• Improved communication of Apple opportunities and needs across Production, Operations and Marketing teams.
• Achieved 9 App Store Featured titles driving the highest install rate on iOS and Mac in Zynga's history.
• Delivered on the first app store best of year on both Mac and iPhone in the same week.

Sep 2011 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco

• Directed the investment in new games platform technology across Lucasarts and Lucasfilm from provisioning early development hardware to building frameworks for the creation of products. Created an online services technology plan for adoption in all future Lucasarts products that shared progress across multiple titles. This system also powered websites such as starwars.com and lucasarts.com with a shared identity and profile.
• Develop and champion technical strategy for platform usage across multiple teams and titles
• Communicate and report on industry trends, including creating an industry roadmap
• Primary technical contact for first party, vendors, and partners
• Responsible for strategic technology investment in platforms, copy protection, anti-piracy measures, digital distribution and middleware licensing.
• Built consistent procedures and a common decision making strategy in product development at a corporate level.
• Built proposals for new business opportunities, product designs, and development relationships.

Feb 2008 – Sep 2011 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco

• Utilized my extensive product knowledge to direct all of Lucasarts externally developed titles . Brought a deep technical knowledge across all game development platforms and the ability to work well with different external teams to deliver quality results. Expert consultant for Lucasfilm in areas such as cloud computing, online community integration and multi-platform services. Provided developer assessment across multiple products for acquisition.
• Advise the company as a whole on issues concerning general project status and strategy for technology investment
• Provide hands-on programming expertise for the purposes of profiling code performance, reviewing code at the developer, building and approving project archives, etc.
• Assess areas of technical risk affecting product quality and timeliness.
• Provide insight into the feasibility of engineering team schedules and provide workable solutions, as appropriate

Sep 2006 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos · West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

• Managed all technical direction for both internal and external development for the Sierra label in Europe, including 2 internal studios and 8 external products. Developed a relationship with all 1st Parties and middleware providers including a position on the PS3 Advisory panel to further improve developer support from Sony.
• Positively influence the quality of developed product, by providing technical oversight to projects in development
• Evaluate developer capabilities and competency, project proposals and development plans, milestone schedules and technical specifications.
• Assist in building proposals for new business opportunities, product proposals, and development relationships

Sep 2002 – Aug 2006 · 3 yrs 11 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Handled publishing accounts with European internal development studios such as Sega, Eidos, Codemasters, THQ and Rockstar. Managed over 200 independent developers and middleware companies across all Sony platforms giving me a vast insight into different game production processes across all studios.
• Presented at IDGA chapters and local business development meetings to encourage Playstation development in new regions. Awarded special recognition by the president of SCE in a ceremony in Tokyo for my work in bringing independent developers to the PS3 platform.
• Focused on delivering external development on PlayStation platforms.
• Product evangelism of PlayStation family as the development platform of choice..
• Contribute to change management of Third Party Relations in line with changing business strategies. Align software product development to meet these goals.
• Advisory role to VP, Publisher and Developer Relations to meet demands in the community.

Oct 1999 – Sep 2002 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Banbury, UK

• Organized deliverables for a large programming team and managed tasks across multiple platforms
• Provided technical guidance in product status meetings
• Influenced direction of libraries and general programming standards.

Sep 1996 – Sep 1999 · 3 yrs · Bath, England, United Kingdom

• Designed and implemented a Resource Management System, game mission compiler and in-game model compilation tools be used across all products.
• Responsible for all artificial intelligence programming on the project "Star Trek : New Worlds"

Mar 1992 – Jul 1997 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Chipping Sodbury, UK

• Contributed to defining departmental budget requirements and the role of software engineering within the development process.
• Conducted approval and technical guidance for external project teams.
• Lead Engineer and Lead Producer role on the game "Citizens"
• Ported PC titles to Amiga ( Gunship 2000 and F117A Stealth Fighter) using a newly created library for porting PC titles from Microprose USA.
• Completed Research and development new 3D engine and PC library
• Titles Shipped in this period - Gunship 2000 (Amiga), F117A (Amiga), Citizens (PC)

May 1991 – Feb 1992 · 9 mos · Rochester, England, United Kingdom

• Completed firmware for 68000 based interface card to test systems on the Eurofighter
• Engineering support roles on Orion Bus tester software
• Windows front end for European fighter aircraft bus tester in ‘C’ and PASCAL

Oct 1989 – May 1991 · 1 yr 7 mos · Rochester, England, United Kingdom

• Worked on mission planning system using ‘C’ on a Sun Sparc station to produce weather display modules and 3D representation of 2D data

Sep 1985 – Oct 1989 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Rochester, England, United Kingdom

• Training in product testing, test engineering and quality assurance
• Specialized in applications software engineering and wrote test programs using automatic test equipment application languages