BONJOUR!

Software Development Engineer, Microsoft (May 2018 – January 2025)

• Developed backend alerting and telemetry technologies in C#/.NET, Azure, MongoDB, and KQL to notify customers of potential system issues, ensuring stability and performance across hundreds of environments
• Worked with UX team in TypeScript and React to deploy new features
• Owned and maintained services and API endpoints responsible for capacity management, environment and account stability, and virtual hardware scaling
• Decreased outages for customers by 80% (~10 per month to ~2 per month) by accurately calculating and applying virtual hardware needs across the fleet, with about 5 stamp scale-outs per week to maintain healthy status
• Minimized on-call load from 40 to 10 manual limit approvals per week
• Worked directly with internal partners and third-party customers on design requirements and capacity allocation

Key Projects

• Geneva – Infrastructure Telemetry and Alerting Platform
  • Stamp Right-Sizing Service (writeup) – calculates virtual hardware needs for improved stamp capacity and stability
  • Account Limit Auto-Calibration Service – auto-applies 50 auto-calculated stamp-safe limit changes a day
  • Account Limit Auto-Approval Service – auto-applies 20 manually submitted stamp-safe limit changes a day
• Xpert – Infrastructure Telemetry and Alerting Platform
  • Alerting Service – alerts customers based on platform observability metrics

Principal Software Engineer, Phoenix Online Studios (July 2010 – May 2018)

• Designed and developed award-winning adventure games and virtual reality apps in C#, OpenGL, and Unity
• Published on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS
• Led team collaboration and development
• Integrated emerging technologies with existing toolsets
• Developed workflow tools, logic implementation, front-end UI, and database integrations
• Maintained servers and company infrastructure in AWS and Linux, using MySQL, MongoDB, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, JSON, CSS, and XML

Key Projects

• E-Tournament Poker – poker tournament software for gambling with real money in locally supervised games
• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition – a supernatural adventure game involving voodoo
• Moebius – an adventure game about an antiques dealer with a photographic memory, hired to solve crimes
• Cognition – an adventure game about a crime-solving detective with the ability to see past events
• The Silver Lining – a free King’s Quest themed adventure game in which the family faces off against old and new villains

Software Engineer, Freelance Work (October 2012 – April 2018)

• Developed mobile games and applications
• Implemented technical designs, game logic, physics, racing mechanics, real-time pathfinding, front-end UI, database integrations, and hardware integrations

Key Projects

• Great Catch Football – analyzes football catches and helps train athletes to improve their skills
• Silent Beacon – BLE hardware that silently alerts close family and friends when you are in danger
• Race, Stunt, Fight, 2+3 – racing games with combat

Software Engineer, RadiantBlue Technologies (April 2008 – September 2012)

• Developed data analysis software, maintained company infrastructure, and built team collaboration tools

Key Projects

• DotMatrix – plots satellite data in order to map moving targets for the US government

Education

Master of Science, Computer Science – George Mason University (2011)

• Computer Games Technology Certificate

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science – George Mason University (2008)

Please contact me for full resume and/or references.

Most of my experience is focused on backend data manipulation, game creation tools coding, and GUI implementation in addition to design input, but I like to get involved in the entire scope of computer game creation. Artificial Intelligence is a big interest of mine and what I focused most of my Master’s degree on.

Front-End Development: I have several years of experience in improving and implementing GUI in games, and have created and improved game creation tools. I also have experience in implementing social media and microtransaction features to engage players in games.

Back-End Development: I managed cloud infrastructure for hundreds of environments, in order to greatly improve stability based on platform observability metrics. I helped develop the server backend for poker tournament software, and I’ve built numerous smaller tools to allow client applications to interface with servers. In a motorcycle simulation game, I improved the game physics and enhanced immersion. I also have experience in parsing MP4 metadata for embedded information that can be overlaid on videos for analysis. In addition, I created built-in conversion between different measurement types in projects, and greatly enhanced KML parsing in projects that I’ve worked on.