Computer skills:

• Comfortable with Unity, C#, Lua, C++, Javascript, SQL, Inform 7.
• Some experience with Java, Perl, PHP, Prolog, assembly language, Puzzlescript.

Experience:

• Independent game developer (2019-): Creating experimental games in Unity.
  • Splinter: An interactive movie from Hobo Studios. Contributed UI and shader code, as well as assistance with general debugging.
• Telltale Games (2008-2018): Content programmer.
  • Worked on 16 episodic series and other titles. Lead Programmer on episodes of Walking Dead, Minecraft: Story Mode, Tales from the Borderlands, Batman, and others.
  • Led development of new systems for Walking Dead, including choice tracking.
  • Converted game UI to mobile.
  • Created Lua UI library for in-game menus.
  • Made several small improvements to the Telltale engine in C++.
  • Collaborated on development of experimental Prolog-based procedural story generation system.
  • Designed a puzzle used in Puzzle Agent 2.
• Dynamic Logic (2003-2008): Enhanced, maintained and troubleshot system for tracking exposure to web advertisements, in a mixture of PHP and Javascript, across multiple domains. Optimized PHP/Oracle statistical analysis routines.
• Independent contractor (2000-2003): Various clients, chiefly back-end web development using SQL, Perl, and PHP.
• Bottle Rocket, Inc. (1998-2000): Implemented Java servlet-based online games, including trivia and prediction games. Implemented a football simulation applet in client-side Java. Implemented demos in Shockwave.
• EarthWeb, Inc. (1995-1998): Developed various applets and applications in Java, including work on networking and GUI libraries. Designed and implemented EarthWeb Moderator, a chat engine. Reorganized and expanded Programming section of Gamelan, a public Java applet repository.
• United Electronic Industries (1995): Maintained device drivers for family of high-speed data acquisition cards in C and ASM. Started project to port drivers to Windows NT. Debugged and operated legacy documentation-generation system written in Microsoft Word macros.
• LookingGlass Technologies (1993-94): Programmer, Technology Group. Maintained and improved graphics library in C and ASM, for use in 3-D first-person computer games. Added support for translucency. Wrote highly optimized texture mappers. Collaborated on reorganization of 200+ file library.

Other Significant Past Projects:

• Baf's Guide to the Interactive Fiction Archive (1995-2013): One of the first fan sites devoted to Interactive Fiction. Catalog of games with reviews, cross-indexed by various attributes. Final version was hand-implemented in PHP with MySQL back-end. Previous versions were based on Java servlets, Java applications, and Perl scripts backed with text files in a specialized markup language.
• The Gostak (2001), an experimental text adventure with an invented vocabulary. Winner of two Xyzzy awards.
• SCI Decoder (1992): A program that decompressed and displayed animated graphics and text from old Sierra line of graphic adventure games. This later became the basis for code used in the FreeSCI project, a freeware interpreter for Sierra data files.

Education: BA Computer Science, Oberlin College