Nov 2024 – Apr 2025 · 5 mos · Los Gatos, California, United States

• Leading the GenAI for Games organization to drive innovation for Netflix Games, finding ways to enable new kinds of games not previously possible to bring joy to our members in all new ways! We will do this by leaning into creator-first philosophy, empowering creators to bring novel experiences to our audiences!

Nov 2021 – Nov 2024 · 3 yrs · Los Gatos, California, United States

• Joined as a founding group of leaders to form the Netflix Game Studio organization since 2021. Acting in a "CTO-like" function for the Game Studio at Netflix
• Teaming up with a world class leadership team to build an organization that brings amazing games to Netflix members!

Feb 2021 – Dec 2021 · 10 mos

• Bootstrapping a new team from scratch to take on a new unannounced strategic investment within the Horizon VR product ecosystem.

Jan 2020 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

• EM of Product on Horizon VR product.
• Horizon was reorganized into its own focused group, and I took the challenge of acting EM for the Horizon product, with a direct management responsibility for all the product team sub pillars, constituting ~50 engineers.

May 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

• EM of VR "Showcase Experiences"
• When the decision was made to sunset the Spaces experiment, we began building a technical framework to allow us to simultaneously explore a portfolio of bets to discover applications that would be meaningful social interactive VR experiences. Showcase Experiences was the pillar I ran, which were building 4 different bespoke networked VR experiences. These were turning out to be unique and fun, and some were demonstrated at Oculus Connect 6 to press audiences, such as WingStrikers and Shape Labs, which appeared in press after the event as a fun new interaction and game experiences.

Jun 2017 – May 2018 · 11 mos

• Joined as EM on the Spaces VR project.
• Joining shortly after public release of the experimental Spaces VR application, shepherded several sub teams focused on engaging VR activities, UX, and application foundation.
• Some experimental activities we built that were interesting and fun were physics dice, a vr-native deck of cards, Avatar record and playback prototypes, and more.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2025 · 8 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Plato (www.platohq.com) is a network of great Engineering Leaders to find your perfect mentor for your management/leadership challenges. Founding mentors were the first to join Plato to support their vision of improving engineering leadership.
• I volunteer time through this platform to connect with aspiring and current engineering leaders to offer mentorship and advice on demand as it relates to engineering leadership and entrepreneurship.

Nov 2015 – May 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led SF studio engineering team of 24 engineers that had recently shipped Star Wars: Uprising (iOS, Android)
• Assessed and executed plan to resolve organizational, communication, and efficiency issues
• Worked with central technology and other studios to collaborate on creating technical and product solutions
• Led technical effort to make Star Wars the first Kabam Unity3D based game to deploy in <100MB with secondary download
• Managed major studio org restructuring
• Assessed and assisted Phoenix Age business unit's technical challenges, and helped prepare it for sale to another company
• Ran a new business unit with a highly skilled team currently prototyping a future next-gen mobile game concept.
• Pitched team and game concepts to FoxNext, resulting in a successful acquisition of the studio alongside the LA studio

Jan 2011 – Oct 2021 · 10 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Rogue Rocket continues to exist and has games out in the wild, and is still owned and run by Nick Bruty and myself, but is listed here as "ended" in LinkedIn purely for cleanliness sake.
• Company and technical leadership as well as production, business development, and logistics responsibilities.
• We existed to create exciting games for digitally distributed and mobile platforms. In addition to several self funded games, we also did publishing deals with Microsoft, Glu, and Big Fish Games. All games were original ideas created and built by our team.
• Team acquired by Kabam late 2015
• Games built here include:
• Jackpot Gems (iOS, Android, Windows, Windows Phone)
• Peaked at #1 US & UK Casino category on Google Play, Aug 1, 2015
• Gunpowder (iOS, Android,Steam,Windows, Windows Phone)
• Featured in July 2015 iOS Best New Games in UK & Dutch App Stores
• Near 90% metacritic
• SushiChop (iOS, Android, Windows, Windows Phone)
• Peaked at #7 US free iOS apps
• First Wonder (PC prototype, Cancelled Kickstarter)
• Throne Together (Windows, Windows Phone)
• Dead on Delivery (iOS, Android, Windows, Windows Phone)
• Infected (iOS, Android)
• Heist City Heat (iOS)
• Technologies and services used to deliver high quality products efficiently include:
• Unity3D
• AWS Cloud Infrastructure (EC2, Redshift, Lambda, etc)
• Parse.com
• Swrve (AB Testing and metrics)
• LAMP stack
• UnrealEngine 4

Nov 2004 – Dec 2010 · 6 yrs 1 mo

• Lead Programmer. Managed programming team from 1 to 7 team members on several projects of varying scopes and target platforms.
• During my tenure, I built the following game products:
• Infected (PSP)
• Afterburner: Black Falcon (PSP)
• Smarty Pants (Wii)
• My Amazing Story (Xbox360, cancelled)
• Tangled (Wii)
• In addition to team and corporate leadership responsibilities, I also directly developed technology in areas including but not limited to:
• Networked multiplayer combat and matchmaking
• Core systems
• Gameplay mechanics and systems
• Asset loading and streaming tech
• UI systems
• Tools
• 3rd Party integrations
• I also worked directly with a variety of tools and middleware including
• Unreal 3
• Havok Suite
• Scaleform
• Renderware Studio
• FMOD
• GameSpy
• Proprietary internal engine tech

Jan 1999 – Jan 2005 · 6 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Built these games during my tenure:
• Escape from Monkey Island (PC/PS2)
• RTX: Red Rock (PS2)
• Sam & Max 2 (tragically cancelled)
• Star Wars: Republic Commando (PC/Xbox)
• During this time was responsible for a wide variety of systems and features including:
• Multiplayer real time combat, game modes and matchmaking
• Particle Systems and visual FX tech
• Enemy AI
• Boss monster AI and features
• Adventure game logic and puzzles
• Variety of game mechanics and minigames
• Game development tools as it related to gameplay
• I worked with tools and middleware including but not limited to:
• Unreal Engine 2.5
• A variety of internal LucasArts proprietary engines and middleware
• GameSpy

Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 · 1 yr