Experience

Flourishing Capital

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  Created $AI token, social media influencer and crypto market analyst. Products we run include AI powered crypto market analysis and portfolio management and fiat on-ramps for crypto.



NVIDIA

• United States
• Computer Hardware Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Engineer

  • May 2016 - Apr 2021

  Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Performed hardware optimization for low level graphics APIs, multi-GPU rendering, VR, AI, Console and PC graphics debugging and optimization, crypto mining GPU optimization.



Wicked Fun, Inc.

• Computer Games

• Cofounder & Chief Technology Officer

  • Nov 2013 - Dec 2015

  San Francisco Bay Area Force of Elements is a cross platform real time multiplayer match-3 eSports game. Company size grew to 25 people. Raised 3 seed rounds and an A round with top silicon valley angels and a name brand VC Architected the server infrastructure to run and scale globally allowing players from across the globe to play each other in real time in a platform agnostic way, managed client and server engineering team and contributed to the codebase Got books up to investors' standards together… Show more Force of Elements is a cross platform real time multiplayer match-3 eSports game. Company size grew to 25 people. Raised 3 seed rounds and an A round with top silicon valley angels and a name brand VC Architected the server infrastructure to run and scale globally allowing players from across the globe to play each other in real time in a platform agnostic way, managed client and server engineering team and contributed to the codebase Got books up to investors' standards together with CFO and accountant and put financial controls in place at the corporate and bank level Analytics, product management and general management Closed major vendor deals and manage 3rd party relationships Managed communication between board, investors and team Co-decision maker on product feature set and roadmap Show less



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• Wellness and Fitness Services

• On Sabbatical

  • Feb 2013 - Oct 2013

  Experienced international cultures and history as creative inspiration



KIXEYE

• Canada
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Director / Product Manager

  • Aug 2011 - Feb 2013

  San Francisco Cocreated and managed engineering team for Tome: Immortal Arena. Influenced Unity and Adobe roadmaps to aid studio objectives. Then moved to liveops design and product management for War Commander. My features contributed to the highest grossing week ever.



Funzio (acquired by Gree in 2012)

• Lead Developer

  • Jan 2011 - Jul 2011

  San Francisco, CA Led development for Crime City and Kingdom Age instrumental to the Gree acquisition.



RubyCoins, Inc. (acquired by PayPal in 2011)

• Cofounder & Chief Technology Officer

  • Jan 2010 - Jan 2011

  Created a fully Internationalized Enterprise Billing Platform which was acquired by PayPal. Integrated over 30 global payment systems.



Andrograde

• India
• Agriculture, Construction, Mining Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder

  • Jan 2008 - Jan 2010

  Created one of the first virtual goods and currency monetization platforms for Flash games enabling the free-to-play movement. Created social game portal site andrograde.com. Created the original IP Beat Me Up series of games which had over 30 million total plays and inspired a new genre of casual games.



Applied Signal Technology

• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Research Developer / NextGen

  • Aug 2009 - Nov 2009

  Researched and helped develop top secret project for the Department of Defense.



Loopt (acquired by GreenDot in 2012)

• J2ME core mobile developer/BREW porting manager

  • Mar 2007 - May 2008

  Worked with renowned entrepreneur Sam Altman creating Loopt for Boost, Sprint and Verizon.



Glu Mobile (IPO in 2007)

• Lead Software Engineer

  • 2005 - Mar 2007

  San Mateo, CA Lead development for pre-iphone mobile games in BREW and J2ME, all of which were top ranked across carriers. Wrote the first cell phone raycasting engine.



Zombie Studios

• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • 2004 - 2005

  Greater Seattle Area Programmer on Shadow Ops: Red Mercury for XBox & PC.



Self Employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Independent Game Developer / Hobbyist

  • 1992 - 2004

  Hickory/Lenoir, North Carolina Area Designed and Developed a myriad of indie games from 286 to Pentium era. Tools used: Borland C++, DJGPP, Turbo C 3, Turbo Pascal, Visual Studio Some of the games archived at http://willperone.net/projects.php



Gamerz Internet Cafe

• United States
• Entertainment
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Cofounder

  • 1999 - 2000

  Hickory/Lenoir, North Carolina Area Helped build the first internet cafe in Hickory, NC.