Work experience

Wonderstorm Principal Gameplay Engineer

Online Multiplayer Action Roleplaying Game, using Unreal Engine
Los Angeles, CA Mar 2018 - Present

Unreal C++ gameplay engineer working on The Dragon Prince: Xadia, a cooperative multiplayer game based on the Emmy Award-winning Netflix series set in an epic fantasy world full of wonder, danger, and limitless adventure.

• Built foundations for the "3Cs" (characters, controls, camera) in our game
• Characters: Established pipeline used by our art/design teams to create 11 playable heroes, over 70 unique enemy NPCs, and 6 world bosses
• Abilities: Integrated Unreal's Gameplay Ability System, and championed its use for prediction, replication, and rollback, allowing designers to create over 600 unique abilities over the course of the project
• Movement: Customized Unreal's networked character movement to support our project's unique features, including knockbacks, sliding, and grappling hook ability
• Animation: Created Animation Blueprint graph and C++ logic, supporting nearly 100 characters (many with unique skeletons) with a single, shared parent ABP
• Controls: Generalized input handling across all of our supported platforms (console/gamepad, mobile/touch, PC/mouse + keyboard), including a fighting game-style input buffer and input queuing system
• Camera: Configured initial isometric camera setup
• UI: Led the development of much of our game's UI, including displaying player abilities in the HUD, re-usable widgets for common controls like tabs and modal dialogs, menus, navigation, and custom UI materials
• Tech Art: Created the toon shader and material graph used in our project to emulate the look of The Dragon Prince animated TV show on Netflix
• Porting: Experienced in sharing cross-platform game logic, input management, and UI between console, PC, and mobile versions of the game
• Performance: Profiled and optimized game logic, network bandwidth, and memory leaks
• Online Services: Worked with backend services team on player features, including missions, scaling difficulty, quests, economy, inventory, loadouts, progression, crafting, upgrading, and store purchases

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Microsoft Software Engineer 2

Realtime VFX editor for Windows 10 PCs, using Unity3D
Redmond, WA Jan 2017 - Mar 2018

• Started small team from the ground up and created prototypes and pitch that resulted in funding of project
• Developed an easy-to-use visual effects editor for Windows 10 Movie Maker using Unity 3D as a rendering engine
• Created fully rewindable animation and VFX timeline system (incl. scrubbing, state machines, and events)
• Programmed 3D UI for manipulating animated characters & FX
• Experienced in physically based shading and extending Unity's Standard shaders
• Built artist tools for outsourcing partners to integrate their content via Unity assetbundles
• Added support for loading glTF models at runtime from the web

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Microsoft Program Manager 2

Windows 8.1 - 10 Photos, Video, and Camera Apps
Redmond, WA Sept 2013 - Jan 2017

• Creating UI designs and interaction specifications in Adobe Illustrator and concept videos in Blend and After Effects.
• Conducted Scrum, bug triage, and sprint backlog management.
• Designed and shipped the first video editor on Windows Phone (one of the first Microsoft Universal Apps)
• Contribued to integrating panorama, slow motion, HDR editing, and flash editing to the Universal Windows Camera app
• Brought GIF playback to Windows' native photo viewer for the first time since XP
• Experienced in international project management with our partner teams in Lund, Sweden and Espoo, Finland

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Camouflaj, LLC Technical Artist

Republique (iOS game in Unity3D)
Bellevue, WA Aug 2012 - Jan 2013

• Wrote post-processing and character shaders for mobile
• Designed and coded an event based Cinematic system using Goal-Oriented Action Planning (GOAP) AI
• Created system for loading subtitles and audio into the game
• Modeled and textured a main character and misc. props

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