Savannah College of Art and Design

Magic Soup Games

Chef

Data Science, and Game Advertising Innovation.

Amazon

Sr. Engineering Manager

TuneIn

Principal Engineer and Head of Analytics

Disruptor Beam Inc.

Principal Software Engineer

•  Consulting for startups, evaluating engineering requirements and candidates.
•  Game development
•  www.realcrowd.com : Full stack engineer, crowd-sourcing commercial real estate investment. 
•  www.3d-view.com : Full stack engineer, developing a language learning mobile app.

Self Employed

Freelance Engineer / Consultant

•     Technical founder of internal game studio, released games on Android, iOs, Facebook, integrated with advertising partners. Technical adviser on dozens of games, while overseeing live products. 
•     First Disney branded Facebook game, lead advancements in NoSQL architecture, CDN deployment, and content pipeline. Contributed to engineering for two child studios and two central technology teams.
•     Implemented complete AB testing pipeline. This strategy was adopted by other studios.
•     Lead the SEAL team - a small team of cross studio, highly skilled, full stack developers whose assignments would reinforce studio engineering.

Disney Interactive

Director of Engineering

•   Acquired by Playdom, which was acquired by Disney Interactive shortly after.
•   Lead technology pivot from virtual worlds to social games, built diagnostics and monitoring tools to help hold everything together during a period of rapid growth and change.
•    Transformed existing Flash prototype into cutting edge virtual world client. Implemented 2.5d Height fields and huge maps while simultaneously reducing memory consumption and improving frame rate.
•    Lead development of script editing and world building tools. Isometric game engine was ultimately used in over a dozen products at Playdom and Disney Interactive.

Metaplace

Client Lead

Developed high end data visualization solutions for deployment through the browser. Concentrated on abstraction of existing Visual-io technology for custom deployments.

Visual i|o

Software Engineer

Lead client side developer for Direxxis’ dmEDGE Marketing portal. The dmEDGE platform is a skin-able framework for managing marketing materials for diverse clients. The platform serves as an ordering tool for prospect data,  print material, document sharing and campaign management / fulfillment.

Direxxis Inc.

Client Side Developer

•     Created rich interactive marketing and sales tools.
•     Lead developer for Ownership Experience Calculator showcased at Macromedia MAX 2004. This online/offline sales tool was distributes to the salesforce on tablet PCs similar to modern mobile.
•     Lead developer for Gulfstream's in-house SCORM 1.2 compliant feature rich Computer Based Training system. Launched project with an estimated 150 hours of courseware and 10,000 users.
•     Created additional players to deliver existing courseware in CDROM, PDF, HTML.

James Gauthier