Aug 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Sunnyvale, CA · Remote

• Led engineering team of 12 for “Choices: Stories You Play,” a narrative mobile game serving
• 5M+ monthly active users.
• Owned the full technical roadmap — feature prioritization, sprint planning, release
• coordination, and cross-functional alignment with design, product, and QA.
• Architected and shipped A/B testing framework that gave the team real data to make product
• decisions instead of guessing.
• Drove player retention initiatives through data analysis, feature optimization, and targeted
• improvements to the new-user experience.
• Managed engineering hiring, onboarding, and career development for the team.

Oct 2021 – Jun 2022 · 8 mos

• Built VR games for Meta Quest, focused on sports and social multiplayer experiences.
• Developed hand tracking and gesture recognition systems for controller-free gameplay.
• Optimized rendering pipelines to maintain 90fps performance on mobile VR hardware — a
• hard technical constraint with no room for shortcuts.
• Contributed to a small, fast-moving team shipping multiple VR titles to the Quest store.

Jul 2020 – Sep 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Portland, OR

• Built immersive VR training simulations for enterprise clients including the U.S. military and
• Fortune 500 companies.
• Developed conversational AI systems for interactive training scenarios where users practiced
• real-world conversations with virtual characters.
• Implemented AR features including marker detection and spatial tracking for mixed-reality
• training environments.

Jun 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr · Portland, Oregon

• Managed a 5-person engineering team building interactive installations for museums, brand
• experiences, and public spaces.
• Led development of multi-touch interactive surfaces with computer vision for object
• recognition — visitors could place physical items on a table and the system would respond in
• real time.
• Shipped multiple parallel projects simultaneously, coordinating across hardware, software,
• and creative teams.

Oct 2016 – Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• Key Project: Google Jigsaw / New York Times Collaboration
• Co-developed the content moderation API used by the New York Times to automatically
• detect toxic comments. Built with TensorFlow, achieving 94% accuracy across 1M+
• comments processed daily.
• System operated under sub-100ms latency requirements — moderation had to be fast
• enough that users never noticed it was happening.
• Worked directly with Google’s Jigsaw team (formerly Google Ideas) on one of the earliest
• large-scale deployments of ML-powered content moderation.

Aug 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• Built interactive retail experiences and mixed-reality displays for Nike and Adidas using
• Unity, C#, Raspberry Pi, and Arduino.
• Created 3D visualization tools for spatial planning — helping retail teams prototype store
• layouts virtually before committing to physical buildouts.
• Developed mobile training apps and brand experiences for Nike Golf

Jun 2013 – Aug 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Built internal automation tools in Python that reduced incident response time by 60%.
• Developed monitoring and anomaly detection systems for infrastructure health.
• Participated in the Healthcare.gov recovery effort during the 2013 crisis — part of the strike
• team that helped restore functionality to the system.

Dec 2012 – Jul 2013 · 7 mos

• Provided technical support for New Relic’s monitoring platform. Diagnosed complex
• performance issues across customer application stacks and escalated product bugs to
• engineering.

Dec 2010 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hillsboro, Oregon

• Highest-tier technical support handling escalated streaming issues. Worked directly with
• device vendors and internal engineering teams to diagnose and resolve platform-level
• problems affecting content delivery.

Oct 2002 – Oct 2006 · 4 yrs · Fort Bragg, NC

• Two combat deployments to Iraq (2003, 2005). Earned Army Commendation Medals and
• Expert Infantryman Badge. Honorably discharged.