★ Because Code is Beautiful and Powerful ★ My Mission ♦ Help and Serve ♦ Uplift and Inspire ♦ Create Elegant Solutions ♦ Learn and Grow ♦ Leave the world better ♦ Have fun doing it! Summary * Accomplished, senior professional software engineer for 24 years * Inventor on 2 patent applications * Two personally-developed apps published (iOS and Android) * Certified Bitcoin Professional and author of hxBitcoin open source crypto library * 27 released commercial video game titles across 40 SKUs * Electronic dance music producer; fluent in Thai language RECRUITERS: At this time I'm not looking for work in the games industry; but please feel free to reach out with non-games opportunities!

Principal Software Engineer @ From December 2015 to Present (1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaProducer @ EDM producer - house and trance. From February 2013 to Present (2 years 11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Software Engineer @ - Personal focus on code reliability, engineering discipline, player experience, and core systems architecture - Game server architect - Game client (Flash, iOS, and Android) and server programming - Wrote a multi-threaded Java framework that enables game server engineers to focus on creating a great game and not complex concurrency issues - Game server framework used by multiple projects - Instrumented game server for custom performance and experience metrics using New Relic - Game server logging and automated error reporting - Set up and maintained continuous integration server - Primary author and maintainer of unit and integration tests - Wrote code generator to provide serializeable messages between Java server and AS3 client * Serializes to binary and JSON * Binary serialization includes unique security features - Load testing (JMeter, Charles Proxy, BlazeMeter) - Key diagnoser of complex technical issues - Java, ActionScript 3, Python, C#, JavaScript, JSP, XML, HTML, CSS - Netty, Tomcat, NetBeans, FlashDevelop, FlashBuilder - Some exposure to back-end and infrastructure: Amazon AWS (EC2, CloudFormation, S3), Graylog, ElasticSearch, Loggly - Adobe AIR and Xamarin/Mono on iOS From August 2011 to August 2015 (4 years 1 month) Director, Software Engineering @ * Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure - winner of 2011 AIAS Outstanding Innovation in Gaming award. * Managed staff of 11 programmers. Technical hiring; scheduling; budgeting; performance reviews; compensation decisions. Introduced engineering test to hiring process. Instituted regular programmer meetings. * Architect and author of peripheral communication interface, RFID tag storage layout, and cross-platform peripheral and toy access API. Authored hardware technical design document. Technical coordination and support for hardware, peripheral, and toys across 9+ teams. Offline analysis of USB traffic and other testing procedures to ensure correct use of hardware. * Championed and implemented instrumentation and data mining of content authoring pipeline. One resulting process change saved 8 man hours per day across the studio. Client-side API and server back end (Apache, MySQL, PHP). * Implemented content build farm to reduce game disc turnaround time. * Designed Wii SKU's online features. * Central liaison between engineering and other departments. Technical support for content creators. * Worked with IT to determine infrastructure and studio equipment needs. * General engineering, troubleshooting, and optimization of game engine and proprietary authoring tools. * Introduced automated building, unity building, and unit testing to code build process. * Overhauled code build process and eliminated "voodoo."​ * Moved studio to Perforce revision control. Implemented Perforce source control integration into studio's proprietary authoring tools. * Inventor on 2 patent applications. From September 2008 to August 2011 (3 years) Software Engineer @ Hellgate: London (Windows) Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (GameCube) Army Men: Sarge's War (PS2/Xbox/Windows) From July 2002 to September 2008 (6 years 3 months) Lead Engineer, Library Technologies @ * Lead developer of Visual Concept’s cross-platform engine * Primary developer of Visual Concept’s acclaimed 3D engine for Dreamcast, which enabled never-before-seen console sports games at 60 FPS * Wrote a Pentium-optimized software rasterizer which supported texturing, shading, and translucency; it significantly outperformed DirectX on systems without graphics acceleration and enabled wide distribution of NBA Action ’98 From 1996 to 2002 (6 years) Software Engineer @ * Authored proprietary game engine and games in 68000 assembly From June 1991 to January 1993 (1 year 8 months)

High School @ Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) From 1988 to 1991 Chuck Batson is skilled in: Xbox 360, Perforce, Game Development, Video Games, PS3, Wii, Game Design, Game Programming, Xbox, Gameplay, ActionScript, Mobile Games, Cross-platform Development, 3D Studio Max, Python, Java