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Brentwood, Essex, United Kingdom	Email: Twitter: Full, clean driving licence held

Employment History (17 Years, 8 Months)
7 Years, 9 Months Sep 16 - Present	Lead Graphics Engineer (SEM3) NaturalMotion London 6 Agar Street, London, WC2N 4HN
	Leading the Graphics Team on CSR Racing 2. Authoring and delivery of Unite2016 talk. Backlog, roadmap, strategy authoring & enactment. Line management, hosting graphics meetings & game graphics review sessions. R&D sandbox project, GFX tech improvements.
2 Years, 5 Months Apr 14 - Aug 16	Senior Graphics Programmer NaturalMotion London 6 Agar Street, London, WC2N 4HN
	Building core graphics tech for the release of CSR Racing 2. Authoring and delivery of GDC2016 talk. Creation of hybrid based IBL tech & emulated HDR solution Authored library of car uber shaders, including paint approximations Novel car liverying solution, post processing, VFX, PFX, headlights ... Low end device support Profiling, optimisation, pipeline & tooling improvements
2 Years, 3 Months Jan 12 - Mar 14	Graphics Programmer Sony SCEE London 15 Great Marlborough Street, Westminster, London, W1F 7
	Working as a Graphics Programmer on the New SingStar and the Book of Spells project. Skills gained include: Creation and iteration of a Particle Engine Building of post filter and Augmented Reality systems Accelerated frame encode/decode, colour conversion etc Tool and pipeline creation/iteration System profiling and optimisation, debugging
1 Year, 0 Months Jan 11 - Jan 12	UI/Gameplay Programmer Sony SCEE London 15 Great Marlborough Street, Westminster, London, W1F 7
	Primarily worked on UI/gameplay for Everybody Dance project skills gained included: Working in a small team rapidly prototype new game ideas with timeframes measured in weeks Creation of screen components, visuals and behaviours Graphical debugging and engine optimisation
4 Years, 3 Months Oct 06 - Jan 11	Experienced Programmer Codemasters Software Co. Ltd Codemasters Campus, Stoneythorpe, Southam, Warrickshire, CV47 2DL
	Four AAA titles produced while working in the racing studio’s front end team - “Colin McRae: DiRT”, “Race Driver: GRID” “DiRT 2” and "DiRT 3". Some of the tasks worked on include: Screen and component creation, front-end technology development, maintenance, bug fixing, disc building etc Demo development Securom and Starforce software protection integration Project management, task cost estimation, meeting organisation, report writing, agile development

Commercial Projects
29 Jun 2016	CSR2 iOS/Android

24 Oct 2014	Singstar Ultimate Party PS3

13 Nov 2012	WonderBook: Book of Spells PS3

18 Oct 2011	DanceStar Party PS3

24 May 2011	DiRT3 X360/PS3/PC

8 Sep 2009	Colin McRae: DiRT2 X360/PS3/PC

30 May 2008	Race Driver: GRID X360/PS3/PC

14 Jun 2007	Colin McRae: DiRT X360/PS3/PC

Education and Qualifications

Queen Mary, University of London
BSc, Computer Science, 2:1

Operating Systems (DCS218)
Specifications and Reasoning (DCS219)
Graphical User Interfaces (DCS224)
Database Systems (DCS225)
Network Systems Architecture (DCS228)
Software Engineering (DCS235)
Systems Analysis (DCS310)
Procedural Programming (DCS100)
Language and Communication (DCS103)
Object Orientated Programming (DCS104)
Computer Architecture (DCS111)
Discrete Structures (DCS117)

Computers and Society (DCS124)
Logic and Proof (DCS125)
Algorithms and Data Structures (DCS128)
High Performance Computing (DCS306)
Computer Graphics (DCS314)
Artificial Intelligence (DCS326)
Algorithms and Data Complexity (DCS333)
Computer Science Project (DCS334)
Software Risk Assessment (DCS337)
C++ for Image Processing (DCS339)

Ardleigh Green College
Distinction Diploma, Computer Science

Interests
Online courses/presentations/articles/blogs, self help books, gym, travelling, learning Spanish, playing guitar and a good bourbon with friends.

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