Full Sail University

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

VP of Software Engineering at Epirus

Los Angeles, California, United States

Epirus

VP of Software Engineering

CircleUp

Engineering Manager, Data Engineering

Previously:  Engineering Lead, DataPreviously:  Software ArchitectDeveloped a Big Data ingestion system for transporting, enriching, and warehousing mobile game events from Scopely's successful portfolio of live mobile titles into an Amazon Redshift-housed data warehouse.In order to scale Scopely's data practice to greater heights, architected and constructed a data lake on Hadoop/HDFS and lead the migration of resource-intensive ETL processes from Redshift to Hive/Hadoop.Architected and implemented a data ingestion pipeline for HDFS using Apache Spark in Scala.Hired and scaled a team of talented data engineers, employing best practices around data modeling, data fidelity, job orchestration, software engineering, and enterprise data management.

Scopely

Director of Engineering, Data

Bootstrapped a new development team focused on cloud/SaaS-based collaboration solutions that were highly strategic in reinforcing Bluebeam's brand and expanding their market.Heavily involved as a leader in multiple roles including implementation, solution architecture, product/feature design, requirements definition, management/leadership, mentorship, documentation, etc.As part of the company's senior engineering leadership, provided direct assistance with adapting company processes to keep pace with rapid growth-stage scale.  Drove forward process improvements in hiring, documentation, product management, toolchain, technical support, etc.Architected and implemented a cloud-based document management system to integrate as a storage hub for Bluebeam Studio, a web application suite for managing large projects and collaborating on PDF documents in real-timeDevised and executed plan for backward/forward-compatibility with a suite of desktop/mobile clientsAudited and strengthened security/authentication practices, service scalability, and architectural flexibility/stabilityManaged infrastucture deployments including production database upgrades and deployment of datacenter servers as cloud-hosted virtual instances.Designed product features top to bottom, concept to implementation, data modeling to API definition to UI design

Bluebeam Software, Inc.

Engineering Lead, Cloud Solutions

Guidance Software is a leader in computer forensic and eDiscovery software.Provided development effort on EnCase eDiscovery, an enterprise application suite for identifying, collecting, processing, reviewing, and delivering digital evidence on large corporate networksCreated and maintained the core module for nested evidence exploration--able to discover evidence within attachments, file archives, email archives, embedded documents / OLE objects, and any nested permutation thereofDesigned architecture for scheduling and prioritizing jobs having complex affinity rules that limit the network nodes that are eligible to run themServed as a goto resource for SQL query and scalability optimization

Guidance Software

Sr. Enterprise Application Developer

Instructed the "Introduction to Scripting Languages" class for the Game Art & Design Program; assisted students in developing the skills necessary to script basic gameplay events/behaviors using the UnrealScript scripting language.

The Art Institute of California - Los Angeles

Course Instructor

Shipped Titles - Tony Hawk's Project 8, Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, Guitar Hero III:  Legends of RockOn-going engineering, extension, and refactoring of engine systems, tools, and company-wide automated workflow frameworksTechnical coordination and integration of in-game online/downloadable advertising middleware (i.e. Massive, etc.) for multiple titles/SKUsSole engineer for several Guitar Hero III pre-release game demos available on Xbox Marketplace, in-store kiosks, and promotional discs

Neversoft Entertainment

Programmer

Shipped Titles - Call of Duty 3Developed a net-sync'd vehicle system supporting occupancy of multiple playersResponsible for multiplayer gameplay control & network synchronization for vehicles and players

Treyarch

Multiplayer Programmer

Shipped Titles - True Crime: New York CityResponsible for developing AI behaviors for ambient NPC's

Luxoflux

Artificial Intelligence Programmer

Software Developer on several high-profile console video-game titles at various Activision-owned development studios.

Ryan Ligon

Ryan Ligon