Experience

• Technical Director at Cloudhead Games

  Vancouver , CA

  August 2024 - Present

  I am the Technical Director at Cloudhead, working on next gen VR titles.

• Founder / CTO at Megacrush Interactive

  Vancouver , CA

  July 2023 - Present

  I co-founded Megacrush, a premiere service production studio. We work on Previs for TV, Film and Animation, as well as provide full production services for game studios.

• Exec Producer, Technical Director - Unity Film Solutions at Unity Technologies

  Vancouver, Canada

  September 2016 - May 2023

  Collaborate with partners working on innovative projects with Unity. Help define roadmap for Unity in the M&E space.

• VP, Central Tech at Roadhouse Interactive

  Vancouver, Canada

  November 2015 - September 2016

  Responsible for the technical direction and coordination of the Central Tech group at RHI, encompassing IT, Dev Ops, Analytics & Shared Solutions teams.

  The Central Tech group are responsible for delivering shared technology (client & server), processes and pipelines to be used across all of RHI's titles (between 8-10 projects simultaneously), supporting the action sports, casual/casino, RPG & VR divisions.

  My responsibilities include providing the vision & technical leadership for the central tech team, optimizing workflow, requirements gathering across the various teams, as well as helping to prioritize team and studio objectives in order to ensure that the central tech group is able to deliver quality/scaleable services.

  IT & Dev Ops: build & deployment systems, IT processes across the studio
  
  Analytics: big data collection, aggregation & collation across all RHI titles
  
  Shared Solutions: common components & shared technology used by all RHI titles

• Lead Engineer at Namco Bandai

  Vancouver, Canada

  April 2015 - November 2015

  - Software architecture / planning / scheduling for Mobile (Android / IOS) titles using Unity3d engine
  
  - Technical architecture & planning
  
  - Coordinate core technical framework used across all BNSV titles.
  
  - Design & implement standardized 'big data' analytics framework used to capture thousands of events per second for large-scale mobile titles, used in Pacman:256, Tap My Katamari and other titles
  
  - Integration of 3rd party SDK's
  
  - Evaluate & decision maker for 3rd party providers
  
  - oversee technical production of all titles.

• Product Manager at DeNA

  Vancouver, Canada

  March 2012 - March 2013

  Responsibilities include:
  
  - hiring and managing production team. Was brought on board to build the studio from 0 to 70+ staff (so far)
  
  - communicating technical and design requirements to senior management
  
  - coordinate staffing and development resource across all studio projects
  
  - design & pitch original IP
  
  - production team management including overseas development teams
  
  - manage & monitor live game operations
  
  - special events planning & operations
  
  - lead Unity 3D technology initiative internally, lead developer (prototyping / training & product development) for Android & iOS platforms using C#