Experience

Dynamic Animation Systems

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Engineering

  • Nov 2001 - Present

  Responsible for all planning and budgeting activities and obtaining executive management approval for all internal engineering projects and engineering support. Setting and communicating the goals for our organization, both short term and long term. Managing engineering services support personnel. Marketing the organization and game concepts to prospective publishers. Managing team development, personnel development, and marketing efforts. I am also the manager for the Systems Administration group.



Applied Microsystems

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Research and Development

  • 2000 - 2001

  I was responsible for the operations of the Games Technology Division at Applied Microsystems. The division was responsible for the Optical Disk emulation technology used by both the NINTENDO GAMECUBE and the Microsoft Xbox development kits. I was responsible for the management and technical direction of up to four simultaneous (two development and two R&D) projects utilizing over thirty hardware and software engineers plus various external contractors. I reported directly to the executive management of the company and was responsible for advocating the needs and status of our group. Sales of these two products generated approximately eight million dollars of revenue for the company over the last two quarters I was there which generated a significant profit for our group.



Atomic Games

• United States
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Development

  • 1993 - 2000

  In this position I was responsible for the day-to-day operations of a successful game development company. During my five years at Atomic Games we shipped six titles: World at War: D-Day America Invades published by Avalon Hill, Close Combat published by Microsoft, Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far published by Microsoft, Close Combat: The Russian Front published by Microsoft, Close Combat: Battle of the Bulge published by Mattel Interactive, Close Combat: Invasion Normandy published by Mattel Interactive. The Close Combat series has sold well over 1,000,000 units with Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far having sold 400,000 units. My duties included project budgeting and scheduling, primary communications contact with the publisher, personnel management of 30+ programmers/artists/designers/testers, technical direction, external contractor management, system administration, new business development, and contract negotiations. Prior to working at Atomic full-time (during 93-95) I was involved with the two prior World at War titles, Operation Crusader and Stalingrad, as an AI programmer.



GHG, Inc

• United States
• Human Resources

• Senior Robotics Systems Analyst

  • 1987 - 1995

  In this position I supported the NASA/JSC Automation and Robotics System Division’s EVA Retriever/Helper project in the development of a ground technology demonstration of a semi-autonomous, anthropomorphic, dexterous robot for future deployment onboard the Space Station as an astronaut helper. In this capacity I was involved in the development of embedded real-time control systems of robotic arms, heterogeneous system architecture and communications systems, visual scene analysis, real-time data acquisition of inertial navigation sensors, and system administration. Publications An intelligent space robot for crew help and crew and equipment retrieval, Journal Applied Intelligence, Springer Netherlands, Volume 5, Number 1 / January, 1995 Grasping Objects Autonomously in Simulated KC135 Zero-G. Proceedings of the AIAA/NASA Conference on Intelligent Robots for Factory, Field, Service, and Space, 757–762.



Jefferson Associates

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Systems Analyst

  • 1985 - 1987

  In this position I supported the Program Control Office of the Crew and Thermal Systems Division at NASA / Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. I performed ORACLE database development and administration, and system administration. I supervised one junior database applications programmer. Applications developed and supported included project budget forecasting and reporting, resource management, documentation management, and configuration management. In this position I supported the Program Control Office of the Crew and Thermal Systems Division at NASA / Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. I performed ORACLE database development and administration, and system administration. I supervised one junior database applications programmer. Applications developed and supported included project budget forecasting and reporting, resource management, documentation management, and configuration management.