Thesis Advisor

NYU Tandon School of Engineering

January 2019 – present

• Advised both Bachelor and Master students in the Integrated Digital Media program
• Helped students discover and improve their thesis, proven by a 100% pass rate
• Served as external reader during thesis defenses

Director of Interactive Content & Product Engineering

Arkadium

November 2018 - present

• Directed a team of 10+ product engineers in NY and Russia, leading them to grow their technical knowledge and project management skills.
• Improved task management tools, production processes, and art pipelines, leading to 50% boost in project delivery time.
• Created R&D culture that activated strong innovations for the company including adoption of PixiAnimate and industry-leading web technology.

Adjunct Professor of Game Design

Bloomfield College

August 2017 – June 2018

• Co-taught the Game Design program's Senior Capstone Project class.
• Led 30 students on 15 different projects to develop games from scratch and publish their finished products to the public.

Senior Game Developer & Team Lead

Arkadium

July 2014 – November 2018

GAME DEVELOPMENT
• Implemented Agile processes into the development team, enabling us to deliver high quality games with high team ownership under tight deadlines and small budgets.
• Developed The Daily Crossword, syndicated on hundreds of news publication websites and drove the majority of the company’s web-based revenue in the last four years.
• Project managed the development of several HTML5 games, including Solitaire, Sudoku, Jigsaw, Mahjongg Dimensions, Bubble Dragons, and Sweet Shuffle. All games are published cross-platform on multiple websites including Washington Post, CNN, LA Times, AARP, Discovery, and AOL.

INTERACTIVE CONTENT DEVELOPMENT
• Oversaw production of full-stack interactive applications (called "factives") that propelled Arkadium’s new proprietary platform (Inhabit) to 3 million impressions per quarter.
• Lead team to experiment with new technology, build internal tools and improve processes, reducing development time from 3 months per project to about 1 month.

Game Developer

Arkadium

February 2011 – July 2014

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
• Lead game developer of Research and Development team. Designed and programmed 50+ game prototypes in Flash, Unity, and HTML5, each on a 2–4 week development cycle. Most prototypes are published under a sub-brand and many went on to be released as production games (Twisty Hollow, Stunt Armadillo, Match & Merge, and Tumble Tiles).
• Managed and trained multiple interns to build game prototypes on the same rapid development cycle, several projects of which were greenlit for production.

GAME DEVELOPMENT
• Lead programming on Ice Cream Blast, a highly polished match-3 game published on iOS, Android, Facebook, and various publisher sites.
• Programmed Konami's Twilight Carnival, Publisher Clearing House's Bingo Charms, and an unreleased home decoration game for the Facebook platform.
• Programmed the UI for Microsoft Solitaire Collection and Microsoft Minesweeper, both of which were Windows 8 OEM games.

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES
• Pioneered, taught, and managed peer-to-peer game development classes within the company.
• Organized multiple company-wide game jams across offices in NY, Toronto, and Ukraine.
• Organized several outdoor games designed by employees (Super Secret Spies, Spaghetti Standoff, Light Fight, Octopus Wars, Legato, and Wink No More) at game festivals such as Come Out & Play and Indiecade. The first 3 games were awarded Official Selections by Indiecade.

Co-owner & Website Developer

Lee House Chinese Restaurant

November 2009 – April 2014

• Co-owner of a Chinese restaurant, located in Brandon, Florida.
• Developed and maintained website.
• Designed menus and promotional materials.

Software Engineer & QA Lead

Massive Incorporated

February 2008 - October 2010

• Designed and programmed internal tools in C# used for content pipeline. Tools functionality include generating Excel templates for bug data entry, parsing Excel sheet data into e-mail summaries to send to game developers, and capturing and exporting videos.
• QA Project Lead on over 15 video game titles including EA’s NHL09 and Madden 09; Ubisoft’s Far Cry 2 and Splinter Cell: Conviction; THQ’s Saints Row 2 and WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2010; Neowiz’s R2Beat; Midway’s Wheelman; TakeTwo’s NHL2K10 and NBA2K11; Activision’s Blur and James Bond 007: Blood Stone.
• Tested in-game advertisements and produced documentation on bugs into Test Track Pro.

Website Designer & Developer

DesignAttic, Multimedia

June 2007 – November 2007

• Designed database and developed an educational web-game for Kingsborough Community College’s Hotel Management department. Built in Flash with a LAMP backend.
• Website and database developer for several projects including DJ Reymo, RM Graphics, Style Bermuda, Hell’s Kitchen NYC, and Opulence Group.

Programmer & Level Designer

Barbara Confino

March 2007 – February 2008

• Programmer & level designer (Genetic Wars) - a multi-screen video game installation built using Torque Game Engine.
• Built 3D models using Blender that showcases the artist's contemporary work.

3D Production Manager, Technical Writer, Website Developer, & Live Video Performer

Dansology, Inc

November 2006 – March 2010

• Worked collaboratively with director to integrate video game elements into several modern dance projects.
• 3D production manager (Blocks of Continuality/Body, Image, and Algorithm) - a multimedia dance project performed in Tallahassee, Chicago, and NYC. Managed a team of 3D artists to produce content for virtual worlds that dancers would interact with. Performed live with a mechanical installation that read brainwaves from the musician.
• Live video performer (mech[a]OUTPUT) - a dance performance featuring a 3D virtual environment and multi-screen video installation. Performed at Japan Society in June 2007.
• Developed website and database using PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript.
• Regularly revises the company’s grant proposals and press releases.

Production Assistant

Premium

Summer 2006

• Helped 2nd Assistant Director with creating daily call sheets from the production schedule
• Assisted cast and crew on set with production needs