Oct 2018 – Sep 2019 · 11 mos · Letchworth

• Providing small-scale, software & hardware prototyping.

May 2018 – Oct 2018 · 5 mos · Letchworth Garden City

Feb 2011 – Apr 2018 · 7 yrs 2 mos

• Bringing my hands-on experience of video game development and technologies to make magical reading experiences for children on mobile devices.
• As the software engineer on all 7 award-winning fairy tale and 14 other Nosy Crow apps, I built our in-house engine, asset pipeline and tool set from the ground up, providing 3D-graphics rendering, audio, object system, narrative presentation and all interactivity. The apps we produced consistently received industry recognition for their outstanding quality and imaginative use of technology to provide exciting reading experiences to both children & parents.
• "They (Nosy Crow) are the Steven Spielberg of apps" - Jinny Gudmundsen for USA Today.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs

• Developing tech and prototyping game play experiences for Microsoft Kinect (Xbox 360).
• + Software lead for a Kinect based fitness title. Including prototyping a hardware/software solution for providing the user with a pedometer they could wear all day and that would sync with the fitness game by means of an LED and the Kinect camera each time the user played.
• + Developed the Adaptive Noise Suppression filter for skeletal data. Stabilising each joint of the skeleton when static whilst maintaining low latency when the user starts to move.
• + Photo manipulation using a user defined spherical coordinate system, mapping to a 2d UI.
• + Hand gesture recognition using skeletal data and RGB feeds.
• + Virtual drum kit

Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 · 2 yrs

• Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise on Xbox 360: Systems architecture, tools development, technical certification, demo deployment and people management. Prototyped and developed the Pinata Vision feature that uses the Live Vision camera to read physical cards via a bitstream encoding on the cards.
• Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts: Tools and engine support.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2006 · 4 yrs

• Viva Pinata on Xbox 360: Early prototyping on a variety of platforms, system architecture, tool development, demo deployment and people management. The software team was assembled from the ground up as the project developed.
• Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts: Tools and engine support.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs

• Grabbed by the Ghoulies on Gamecube/Xbox: Data reflection tool design and development - still in use today, 2009. Audio library development on Gamecube; streaming audio, sound effects and MIDI synthesizer. Technical support from 2002 onwards as I was leading development of Viva Pinata.

Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 · 2 yrs

• Banjo-Tooie on the Nintendo 64: NPC's, end of level bosses, MIDI synthesizer, memory management, cutscene system, localisation, cartridge ROM data streaming & decompression engine.

Jan 1997 – Jan 1997 · 0 mo

• A 12 week summer job helping to establish the Rare website before my final year at university.