Give me some time to put cool stuff up on here. I’m your average twenty-something programming geek who loves to play video games, develop open source software in my free time and write entertaining games for my employers. I tend to be highly interested in projects that are graphical or mathematical in nature, although I am beginning to become interested in heavily distributed networked services and data processing as well.

Skills

While I tend to tinker with a lot of various projects and languages, I won’t lie to you by claiming I’m an expert in MongoDB just because I played with it for a few days. Instead if you ask me what I’d consider myself highly skilled in, I’d tell you this…

• C++, Ruby, Java, C#
• Application development I suck at large, five year long ill-defined frameworks “projects”. I love churning out solid, shippable products
• Cross platform development on Windows and Linux
• Graphics and building games
• Build Systems
• Building tools and the ever elusive asset pipeline

Employment History

Midway Games

Worked for Midway Games from the winter of 2008 until almost exactly one year later. Did a nine months in an undergraduate internship before working full time for roughly three months until the second rid of layoffs came. The company was bought out by WB Games shortly thereafter, but not before I found work elsewhere. Here’s some trailers for the games I worked on: Mortal Kombat vs DC, The Wheelman, and for giggles… This is Vegas.

Here’s a few highlights:

• Developed on both the Xbox 360 and the PS3
• Shipped Mortal Kombat vs DC and The Wheelman
• Helped integrate technology across internal development teams
• Developed tool to export bone animations from Unreal to Maya
• Developed tool to automate exporting of cinematic rendering
• Improved cook times from over an hour to around thirty minutes

WMS Gaming

I have been happily employed with WMS Gaming since the spring of 2009. WMS makes video slot machines. I can hear you right now, “Slot machines, how boring!”. I could just tell you these ain’t your Grandma’s slots, but instead why don’t you see for yourself…

(I need to finish writing this page)