Experience

Frontier Developments

• United Kingdom
• Computer Games
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Shader Artist

  • May 2023 - Present

  Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

• Senior Programmer

  • Nov 2013 - May 2023

  Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England



Blitz

• Senior Graphics Programmer

  • Nov 2011 - Sep 2013

  Leamington Spa Graphics engine and effects development - PC, Xbox 360, iOS, Android. HDR render engine, Post processing, Material shaders, Effects, Deferred Lighting, Exponential Variance Shadow Maps. Projects: Coca-Cola polar bears for Superbowl 2012, Epic Mickey, Vitalize, Paper Titans, Ace Of Spades, Architectural Visualisation.



Rebellion

• United Kingdom
• Computer Games
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Programmer

  • Mar 2008 - Oct 2011

  Oxford, United Kingdom Senior PS3 programmer on the Asura engine team. SPU code (post processing, skinning), graphics optimisation, deferred rendering, special effects (motion blur, cloaking effects, etc). Projects: Aliens vs Predator (2010), Neverdead, Sniper Elite V2.



Naughty Dog

• United States
• Computer Games
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Senior Programmer

  • Jan 2004 - Jun 2006

  I developed run-time, experimental and tools code for Sony's first party ICE engine on PS3, working under Mark Cerny. My work included: - Artist-driven progressive meshing. - SPU vertex pipeline for performance tests & production. - Elaborate deferred rendering system to using SPUs for much of the rasterising Early development on Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, PC prototypes of various graphical effects including: - Fresnel glass shader. - Vegetation shaders &… Show more I developed run-time, experimental and tools code for Sony's first party ICE engine on PS3, working under Mark Cerny. My work included: - Artist-driven progressive meshing. - SPU vertex pipeline for performance tests & production. - Elaborate deferred rendering system to using SPUs for much of the rasterising Early development on Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, PC prototypes of various graphical effects including: - Fresnel glass shader. - Vegetation shaders & animation. - Shadows, using trapezoidal shadow maps. - Interactive water shaders, with varying waves & surface foam. Development of Jak & Daxter: The Lost Frontier for PSP, in LISP based programming language. - Particle effects. - Volumetric cloud rendering. Show less



Codemasters

• United Kingdom
• Computer Games
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Senior Programmer

  • Nov 1998 - Dec 2003

  Toca Race Driver on PC, Xbox, and PS2, and Toca WTC on PS1. Focussed on tasks relating to graphics & seniority, including: Scene management, LOD, reflections, shadows, tools, physics/collisions (PS1), optimisation, mentoring/supervision. Shader effects (Xbox, PC) and PS2 equivalent, including: metallic paint, 1st order spherical harmonics, fresnel reflections, coloured shadows, realistic motion blur (shader on xbox, multi-pass on PS2).



Iota Software, Cambridge

• Work Experience

  • Mar 1997 - Aug 1997



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Work Experience

  • Jun 1995 - Jan 1996



Logica UK

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Work Experience

  • Aug 1993 - Aug 1993