Work History

EA Sports

Full-time Software Engineer, 6/2013 - Present

Published Work / External Releases

Games: Madden NFL 25, Madden NFL 15, Madden NFL 16, Madden NFL 17
GDC 2017 Lecture: Game Accessibility: Practical Visual Fixes from EA's 'Madden NFL' Franchise
Pending Patent: Systems and Methods for Automated Image Processing For Images with Similar Luminosities

Roles and Responsibilities

Accessibility features, product owner & developer, including colorblind support
Gathers and processes feedback from AccessibilityFeedback@ea.com and twitter.com/ea_accessible
Augmented UI Cross-team architecture effort, bringing together presentation, UI, and graphics.
Ownership of graphics disk space usage, graphics memory & creator of related tracking tools
Variety of shader work, significant contribution to skin, monoliths, banners, MUT cards
Improved pipeline for importing game assets
Patch ownership, provided code support for patch head workflow
Creation of graphics performance monitoring tools

Microsoft Corporation

Full-time Software Engineer, 5/2005 - 4/2013

Published Work / External Releases

Game: Project Spark: Game for Xbox One, Windows 8.1, Xbox 360
Games, Windows 7 Inbox : Minesweeper, Solitaire, Hearts, Spider Solitaire, FreeCell, Chess Titans, Mahjong Titans, Purble Place, Internet Spades, Internet Checkers, Internet Backgammon
DirectX: PIX Game Debugging DirectX sample and whitepaper, PIX for Windows
Xbox Development Kit: PIX, xbPerfView, Xbox Platform API
Xbox.com: 3D Xbox Avatar software rasterizer, used in the web Avatar Editor and related server-side renderer
Games for Windows Live: Installer, Platform Update, & Web Marketplace
Granted Patent 2012: Real-Time Game Performance Analysis Patent
Granted Patent 2010: Audio Sub-band Processing and Comparison Patent
Gamefest Lecture 2008: Performance Tools Update
GDC Lecture 2008: Beyond Printf: Debugging Games through Tools

Roles and Responsibilities

Tech lead for multi-platform Xbox Avatar development, including web and mobile
- Led international team, worked with local teams for large-scale cross-team collaboration
- Specified overall architecture and interfaces, along with user requirements
- Worked on sections of the software 3D rasterizer and avatar file parsing code
- Created custom avatar clothing in Maya for verification/development teams to use
Tech lead for all 11 games that shipped with Windows 7
- Participated in full lifecycle from conception to sustained engineering
- Created team work / feature schedule, took part in feature requirement creation
- Implemented majority of DirectX UI; also worked on game play, touch, accessibility
- Orchestrated both cross-team and international collaboration
Tech lead for Games for Windows LIVE features
- Ownership of both design and project management aspects
- Ported multiple years of Xbox code slices to the PC
Game Developer, Project Spark
- Graphics developer, focusing on particle effects, materials, lighting
- Character work, including facial features and clothing system
- Content pipeline tools support, Maya, 3ds Max, Granny, Havok
- Placeholder artist; creating meshes, characters, animations, particle systems, skyboxes, icons, materials
Miscellaneous projects
- Xbox platform code development for Kinect-enabled dashboard
- Created DirectX shippable samples, including a performance tools tutorial
- Created new/updated PIX for Windows DirectX Shimming detours, updates for Visual Studio
- Created display driver certification display property optimization tool
- Key contributor in Xbox Dr. PIX performance tool design, resulting in patent

Guidant Corporation

Full-time Software Engineer, 6/2003 - 4/2005

Tool development for implantable medical devices; implemented GUI, audio, printed reports, code generation

Full-time Software Engineer Intern, Summers 2000, 2001, 2002

Congestive heart failure maintenance feature set development & platform/language feasibility study

Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

Guidant Lab Student Researcher, 9/2002 - 4/2003, 9/2001 - 4/2002

Software architecture assessment pattern research & automatic code generation research
Published: Knowledge-Centered Safety Critical Software Architectural Assessment Patterns, Journal of Systems and Software Volume 73, Issue 2, October 2004, Pages 313-322

Michigan Technological University

Student Worker, 2/1998-5/1998, 9/1998-5/2000, 9/2000-5/2001

Computer science department teaching assistant, tutor, and grader

Knowledge and Skills

Education

Master Software Engineering, May 2003, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, GPA 4.00
B.S. Computer Science, May 2001, Michigan Technological University, GPA 3.92
BCC Completion Certificate, Summer 2010, Maya 3D Animation for Games and Movies

Recent Computer Skills

Languages: C/C++, C#, Python, Perl, HLSL, MEL, UML, XML, SQL, JScript, VB, WebGL
API: DirectX 9/10/11/12, Xbox 360, XB1, PS4, Win32, STL, GFWL, MFC, .NET
Tools: PIX, Photoshop, Visual Studio, Project, xbPerfView, Razor, Maya, Havok, Granny