Experience

Evening Star

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Jun 2022 - Present

• Technical and Audio Director

  • Nov 2018 - Jun 2022



Hyperkinetic Studios LLC

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Game Developer

  • Dec 2017 - May 2018

  Programmer, Sound Designer, and Additional Music on Sonic Mania Plus (2018). This role was performed in a contract, non-employee capacity. - Designed and implemented UI system - Managed First Party platform implementations on PlayStation 4, Steam, and Xbox One - Designed and implemented sound effects for the title - Produced additional music for the title - Prepared title deployment for physical release Programmer, Sound Designer, and Additional Music on Sonic Mania Plus (2018). This role was performed in a contract, non-employee capacity. - Designed and implemented UI system - Managed First Party platform implementations on PlayStation 4, Steam, and Xbox One - Designed and implemented sound effects for the title - Produced additional music for the title - Prepared title deployment for physical release



PagodaWest Games LLC

• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Game Developer

  • Aug 2016 - Aug 2017

  Programmer, Sound Designer, and Project Manager on Sonic Mania (2017). This role was performed in a contract, non-employee capacity. - Implemented core stage gameplay - Designed and implemented UI system - Managed First Party platform implementations on PlayStation 4, Steam, and Xbox One - Created tools and workflow automation for team members - Designed and implemented sound effects for the title - Managed expectations with publisher for a coordinated international launch Programmer, Sound Designer, and Project Manager on Sonic Mania (2017). This role was performed in a contract, non-employee capacity. - Implemented core stage gameplay - Designed and implemented UI system - Managed First Party platform implementations on PlayStation 4, Steam, and Xbox One - Created tools and workflow automation for team members - Designed and implemented sound effects for the title - Managed expectations with publisher for a coordinated international launch



Maiden Lane

• United States
• Venture Capital & Private Equity
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Automation and Intelligence Consultant

  • Apr 2015 - Mar 2017

  Implemented tools to assist in managing a Venture Capital fund focused on AngelList Syndicate deals. Highlights: - Built an intelligence engine to synthesize data from disparate data sources - Built automation tools to produce alert emails and Slack notifications for business events - Built an internal dashboard for visualizing and managing business intelligence data - Carried out domain research to contextualize work on venture deal intelligence Implemented tools to assist in managing a Venture Capital fund focused on AngelList Syndicate deals. Highlights: - Built an intelligence engine to synthesize data from disparate data sources - Built automation tools to produce alert emails and Slack notifications for business events - Built an internal dashboard for visualizing and managing business intelligence data - Carried out domain research to contextualize work on venture deal intelligence



Jawbone

• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Research and Development Engineer

  • Apr 2013 - Mar 2015

  Highlights: - Worked with CoreBluetooth and other proprietary Jawbone technologies to construct an architecture for managing multiple Bluetooth devices in one app - Accounted for internationalization and localization during application development - Worked in the context of the coordinated, international launch of MiniJambox - Was a developer on DROP by Jawbone™, a social music sharing app, which was launched at the Twitter Flight conference in October 2014 - Drew upon game development experience to build custom physics-based UIs and audio streaming runtimes - Collaborated with DSP, Device Software, and Hardware Prototyping teams to research and iterate future Jawbone products - Represented Jawbone by speaking at UT Austin's uMAD student developer conference. Core Utilizations: - Objective C (Mac, iOS) - Python - OpenAL (Hired as Sr. iOS Engineer, converted to Research and Development Engineer in April 2014) Show less



Wantful

• United States
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Software Engineer

  • Oct 2011 - Jan 2013

  Highlights: - Rebuilt the core conversion flow of the website - Major role in architecting new client authentication scheme in Wantful's Ruby on Rails app - Rebuilt product recommendations engine in Ruby, learned machine learning is hard - Established conventions for Wantful's front-end web development workflow - Managed and developed an iPad app from conception to delivery in 4 months - Built client-server API for the iPad app, featuring session management and secure signed requests - Set up a Jenkins continuous integration system that built iOS betas for TestFlight and reported test results for iOS and Rails apps Core Utilizations: - HTML5, CSS3 - Ruby (on Rails) - Javascript (Backbone, Mustache, Underscore, jQuery) - Objective-C (Cocoa Touch) Show less