Experience

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  Unity

  • Bellevue, Washington, United States

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Jan 2024 - Present
    • Bellevue, Washington, United States

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  Indeed.com

  • Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Aug 2022 - Nov 2023
    • Seattle, Washington, United States

    I am helping improve processes and applications to better serve jobs to job seekers.

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  Self-employed

  • Between Jobs

    • May 2022 - Aug 2022

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  Microsoft

  • Redmond

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Apr 2019 - May 2022
    • Redmond

    Advanced Technology Group (ATG)Game Development Experience (GDX)Empowering Game Developers with Microsoft Platforms & Technology (including many awesome acronyms)

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  Niantic, Inc.

  • Bellevue, Washington

  • Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead & Manager

    • Mar 2017 - Mar 2019
    • Bellevue, Washington

    • Designed and implemented procedural placement of Pokémon characters within a Gym environment fit for screenshot taking, feeding, and viewing in PokémonGo.• Designed and implemented a headless client framework and toolset for testing and evaluating performance of Raid battles at scale. Clients could run locally or on Google Cloud VM instances.• Improved boot times of PokémonGo by 30% though identification of costly string and asset loading operations found within the Unity client, and improvements made to resource loading.• Managed 18 other senior and mid-level game developers including tasking, sprint goals, best practices, development processes, unit testing, and code review mentoring and training.• Led weather feature and Gen3 development for PokémonGo including tooling for tech artists, mock battle server support for battle system iteration, and client/server communications.

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  Disney Interactive

  • Bellevue

  • Senior & Lead Software Development Engineer

    • Nov 2012 - Dec 2016
    • Bellevue

    • Played instrumental role in designing and implementing gameplay systems, data models, and validation for game servers built on web services frameworks. Championed the adoption of modern server-side and web technologies to deliver scalable, elegant solutions for new features and core architecture.• Worked closely with 40-plus-member application design teams and product owners to specify, design, and plan development of existing products for new platforms, improvement of existing products, and development of special features.• Led in the development, enhancement, and maintenance of systems data, configuration, and editorial services powering Disney Interactive’s applications, sites, and related technologies.• Designed leadership and staff development programs and introduced client asset and data-related packaging tools and loading systems. Ensured creation of leading-edge, systems security and data protection technologies.• Established and implemented event logging for client error and performance-related data querying and charting.• Developed and implemented front-end presentation systems, and the client-server communication stack using http request/response, get/put, and RESTful semantics.• Generated Excel reports pertaining to art and data asset statistics for memory sizes and storage usage hot-spots. Communicated results to production management and key content stakeholder personnel.

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  Microsoft

  • Redmond, WA

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Jun 2012 - Nov 2012
    • Redmond, WA

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  Disney Interactive

  • Bellevue, WA

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Mar 2010 - Jun 2012
    • Bellevue, WA