Resume

I take complicated software and platform teams from R&D through to architecture, production, and scale.

Highlights

10+ shipped multi-year projects

Leading teams on large-scale software platforms with up to 280M MAU.

Chronicler Software Corp. / Founder & Design Architecture Director

OCTOBER 2023–JULY 2026, BELLEVUE, WA

Led 5 full-time devs and 50+ contract artists and engineers in shipping a prototype, horizontal slice, and vertical slice under $750k of budget in 17 months
Architected progression and moment-to-moment gameplay loop in Unreal Engine 5 with C++ and Blueprint, including physics-driven animations and scalable design systems that improved average feature dev time from 6 to 2 weeks
Architected our AI machine-learning PyTorch and Pandas stack (prediction and recommendation models) and in-house transformer models
Bootstrapped a game startup as CEO with a soft-launch of 25,000 users and over $750k in funding raised from angel investors
Startup closed due to the funding environment in the gaming industry

Previous: R&D Advisor, Board of Directors (March 2019–September 2023)

Microsoft Corp. / Senior Product Manager, Xbox Game Creator Services

JANUARY 2022–SEPTEMBER 2023, REDMOND, WA

Architected and led shipping multiple new revenue-driving features for the existing massive-scale platform, achieving positive RoI in less than a year
Spearheaded development of high-level strategic initiatives and business planning for the future of Xbox and Game Pass (2024 through H3)
Led the Game Developer PlayFab Economy team in delivering the v2 feature set and double-digit growth of the product past 280M MAU

Red Hat Inc. / Gaming CoP Manager & Principal Engineer

FEBRUARY 2017–DECEMBER 2021, REMOTE

Co-founded the Gaming Community of Practice and led growing it from a consulting group to a full program with $80M in annual revenues
Web-based tooling for docker containers (including games) and UI pipelines
Led a cross-team UI/UX toolset implementation for a 50% decrease of UI build costs
Delivered ongoing updates for a legacy codebase with five nines uptime
Game developer, director on Pod Escape (2020) & unannounced game (2022)

Previous: Senior Dev, Contractor (February 2017–August 2018)

LANFest (501c3 Nonprofit) / Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

JUNE 2012–APRIL 2021, GLOBAL

Led a team that provided technology solutions and recommendations to the President and board of the top national PC Gaming Event Charity in the U.S. Previous: Solutions Architect, Chapter Organizer (June 2012–August 2018)

Ascendancy Studios / Technical Art Director

NOVEMBER 2005–APRIL 2011, REMOTE

Delivered concept art, mesh refinements, and technical direction for a large remote team and shipped a game pitch for Microsoft & Bungie that was approved to release as a well-received mod (First Offensive)

Previous: Tech Art Intern (November 2005–August 2008)

D.B.A. Systems Creative / Part-time Founder & Lead Architect

JANUARY 2000–APRIL 2012, FL

University of Central Florida / B.A. Digital Media | Visual Language

AUGUST 2008–JUNE 2012

Concentration in Visual Language (Character Animation) with a two-year senior film project as a Technical Director. Developed a film production pipeline during R&D phases that allowed highly visible increases in visual fidelity with little to no additional production phase costs
Secretary of LANKnights Computer Club. Wrote club procedure and onboarding that allowed the organization to experience continued growth with an entirely new leadership team

10+ paid presenterships at conferences
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG2831J8RzE&list=PLU9GvzXwcNP666nsNT7CFktMfoMh1ehiv&index=1
Unreal Fest Seattle 2024 - Plugin-afying Lyra: Shipping on UE5
Microsoft XFest 2022 - Chair of Online Services Track
OSSummit 2021 - Red Hat’s Gaming Community of Practice
GDC 2021 - Open Source for Games [Red Hat]
Asheville 2019 - Drag n’ Drop/Mix n’ Match UI
FLDC, PNWDS, FLDC, AVL 2017-2018 - Design Systems & Front-End Components
Asheville DC, Drupalcon NOLA, PNWDS, FLDC 2015-2016 -
Building Cloud Tools with Components, Theme Driven Development, etc.
E-books 2014-2017 - Intranets the Cloud Way

Fully active in open source

Unreal ModularGameplay Ecosystem https://github.com/chronicler-software
Open 3D Engine (C++, Python, Lua): OSS launch & governance, code review https://github.com/o3de/o3de
Drupal Cloud (PHP/JS/CSS): 10+ years - Core Components, Contrib Modules & Sandboxes, Teaching, Issue Queue, Bug Reports https://www.drupal.org/project/user/405818
Blender (Python): 10+ years - Scripts, Teaching, Bug Reports
Misc: Twig/Nunjucks Ecosystem, KSS-Node (JS), FA Forever Lobby (Python + Lua), Screeps AI (JS) | See https://github.com/cybtachyon

Leadership: Strategic planning, Resourcing, Product Management & Direction, Scrum, Agile, and Waterfall workflows
Game Engines: Unreal Engine 5, Valve Source, Open 3D Engine
Software Architecture: Scalability, Design Patterns, Async, Concurrency
Programming: C++, Blueprints, C#, PHP, TypeScript,
Python, Transformer Neural Networks, PyTorch, Lua, Golang
Testing: Automated CI CD, QA Systems, Unit Test Frameworks
Relational Databases: CosmosDB, SQL
Dev. Ops: Kubernetes, Docker, Containers, Bash, nginx, Apache, SOLR
Tools: Git, Perforce, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, JetBrains IDE’s, Visual Studio, Maya, Blender
Mobile: Hybrid Apps, API building, REST Services
Security: XSS, Injection, Form Handling, On-site Concerns
Soft Skills: Learning extremely fast, Client & Customer Interaction, Presentations, Team Building, Sales Support, Technical Writing, Remote Teamwork