James W. Rogers
US citizen, California resident
I have 29 years of experience in the computer industry with a focus on interactive entertainment (video
games), real-time simulation, digital image processing tools for post-production, film and print, and
content creation tools and pipelines for rapid iterative development. Until recently I was Sr. Director of
Product Development at Electronic Arts working on new IP development. I am best known for
assembling and managing the engineering teams and online development and operations groups for
The Sims 4 franchise, which became the top selling franchise in PC video game history. Under my
leadership The Sims 4 enjoyed a flawless launch in the fall of 2014 and the live service has been
releasing new content and updates to passionate fans on a weekly basis ever since.
Through my career I have combined my training as an Electrical Engineer with my applied software
experience and passion for building and leading teams and processes to deliver results for a variety of
challenges.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ELECTRONIC ARTS, Redwood Shores, CA
1995 to Nov 2015
Sr. Director of Product Development – Maxis Worlds
2014-4015
Lead development director of an as-yet to be released original title, which will be available for all
major platforms including Apple iOS, Google, Android, Sony PlayStation, Microsoft, Xbox and
Microsoft Windows. Led team from concept through green light as they built prototypes using C and
C# on Unity 4, Unity 5, Unreal 4, and EA’s own Frostbite engines.
Worked with business affairs, EA Maxis’ CTO and the licensor of Unity Engine, Epic Games to
negotiate an option for a fixed cost perpetual license for the Unreal 4 engine.
Responsible for budget and staffing plans for California and Shanghai development teams. Actively
adapted the teams’ development processes and tools for speed and agility in a start-up like atmosphere.
Employed modified scrum methodologies with sprints and managed releases in Jira. Specified and
oversaw development of Excel-based custom scope, capacity and drift project management tools
leveraging Jira data, which allowed us to make near, mid and long term priority and capacity
management decisions, optimize project headcount, and support franchise business modeling.
Partnered with marketing on qualitative and quantitative market analysis to verify and fine-tune
product positioning and ensure data based design and product priorities.
Member of Quality Execution Panel (Qx), a core group of worldwide senior directors charged to define
and drive Qx directives through EAs teams and products. Ten Qx Practices were defined to drive
higher confidence and predictability for both the quality and delivery of EA’s games.
Focused on capturing and applying best practices in planning, execution, transparency and quality.
Measurement and verification of success in the practices was telemetry based with metrics for design
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quality, execution, quality as measured by players, and quality as measured by QA (embedded quality
assurance partnerships) and QE (automated test verification engineering).
Sr. Director of Product Development – The Sims 4
2011-2014
The Sims 4 Launched in September 2014 and is available on Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac
platforms with online sharing features for creating Sims and building blueprints for houses. In the year
since launch in Fall 2014, 3.9 million players have played over 179 million sessions averaging 1.4
hours each. Players have created 92,800,000 Sims across 27,900 years of gameplay. The system has
sustained 130K simultaneous users in production and 1.2M under end-to-end load and usability testing.
The service has delivered dozens of content, gameplay, stability and engagement releases since launch.
The Sims 4 – Member of Sr. Leadership Team
While on The Sims 4, I was a member of the Sr. leadership team and accountable for online operations
and core engineering development. I provided organizational, technical, operational and business
leadership to ensure successful development, launch, patch and release of the base game and on-going
digital revenue offerings to meet 10-year business goals.
Prepared and presented regular project review and analysis to Sr. leadership for my teams.
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Reviewed key technology and operational options and decisions and approved or obtained
budgets to support them. Communicated these decisions in audience appropriate level of detail.
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Reviewed and ensured accuracy of load testing test plans and results.
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Ensured cost of operations was efficient and within budget.
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Provided mitigation plans and options to overcome challenges.
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Fostered culture for high performing teams with individual and team accountability.
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At the completion of each milestone I worked with the other Sr. Leadership to prepare and
present results to studio executives. These milestone reviews analyzed results, discussed
accomplishments and misses, and concluded with a discussion of adjustments going forward.
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Participated in daily Sr. leadership meetings and delivered weekly risk, opportunity, and
development reports to the studio SVP with Sr. leadership team.
The Sims 4 – Sr. Director of Engineering
Responsible for 60+ developers including client and server engineering, online services, creativity
game modes, tools engineering, DevOps, LiveOps, and the mobile companion application teams. I led
a team of six development directors to deliver on the goals in these areas. Direction included setting
group goals, targets and negotiation of resources with production and development direction partners.
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Worked with and mentored reporting directors regarding team assembly, hiring, performance
management, and the creation and execution of staff and development plans. Ran regular
milestone and schedule reviews. Responsible for selection, negotiation and vetting of on- and
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off-site contracting talent via EA’s standardized vendor process. Worked with legal and
business affairs stakeholders to create and update vender agreements.
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Responsible for staff and development plans.
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Responsible for vendor capability vetting, contract negotiation and deliverable sign-off.
Worked with legal and business affairs to create and update vender agreements for contract
partners.
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Creativity game modes for The Sims 4: Create A Sim and Build mode. Create A Sim allowed
the player to create virtually anyone. Build mode provided powerful tools to imagine and build
a home, business or venue. I was responsible for capacity balancing across these features to
best meet the design goals or the product.
The Sims 4 - Sr. Director, Online Services
The Sims 4 was built from the ground up to be a live service with rapid metrics-driven development of
updates and rapid release of patches and new content. Responsible for delivery of the technology,
infrastructure and organization to support the franchise transformation from a packaged goods business
to a live service business and to ensure a flawless launch of The Sims 4.
I directly managed The Sims 4 server team through Alpha, and then recruited a reporting development
director to final and launch. During this time I led team through a series of high profile simulations,
tests, and player betas to fully validate the backend prior to launch. Drove evaluations and reports on
100% end-to-end testing from player to each service. Efforts rewarded with the first flawless launch of
an EA Maxis title as measured by 99.8% uptime through the first 3 months of operations.
Accomplishments of the online services teams under my direction:
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Business technology: Intelligent in game ecommerce feature set built around a social gallery of
user generated and shared content.
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Telemetry driven targeted offers and upgrades along with a recommendation engine to surface
content of interest.
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Software update and patching technology integrated directly into the game to drive upgrade
adoption.
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99.8% online service up time. Self-healing back-end services combined with intelligent client
logic to allow for any range of play from offline mode to partially connected to full featured
seamlessly.
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Highly scalable architecture tested to 1.2 million concurrent users. Service can be virtualized to
run on a single physical machine or scaled up to meet increased load allowing for continual
cost per player optimization.
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Optimized Online Cost of Service per Player
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Specification and overseeing creation and operation of the Irish data center.
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Creation and maintenance of Online Cost Of Revenue (OCOR) modeling. This includes
forecasting and tracking of server and storage infrastructure and bandwidth.
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Day-to-day operation of the server development and DevOps during development and LiveOps
for patch and release management post launch.
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Ran cost / performance evaluation of Oracle 10 RAC, which was then in use, versus Cassandra
2.3. The evaluation resulted in a switch to Cassandra in 2014, thereby saving over $6 million in
licensing costs per year.
The Sims 4 – Lead Development Director, Launch Readiness Process
Launch Readiness was a rigorous process to audit, review and support a teams ability to launch online
games and services. Beginning 4 – 6 months prior to launch, the Launch Readiness process assembled
cross-functional stakeholders from across the company to actively plan, predict and mitigate risk
around online services including launch, monitoring, patching, promotions, forums, marketing,
community web site launches and support.
Developed a gap analysis of our ability to end-to-end test The Sims 4 service and every connected EA
or vendor stack and service. This resulted in either an augmentation of system testing capabilities, such
as with a friends load test environment being established, or in the establishment of mitigation
strategies for potential issues that couldn’t be tested fully. For example, even though we couldn’t test
Auth at scale in the load test environment, we could test a portion of the traffic and then measure the
ratio of capacity used per increasing load. We then worked with the Origin and system test groups to
increase capacity in the production environment to meet the expected load.
I oversaw the process from a project risk management perspective and audited partner plans, then
ensured any discovered issues were addressed. This involved review and influence over partner group
schedules, deliverables, test plans, milestones and support needs.
The Sims 4 - Additional Examples of Technical Management and Leadership
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Worked with senior engineering staff and franchise technical directors to evaluate a native port
of Sims 4 to Apple Mac OS X. In the past, the franchise had always licensed a 3rd party shim,
Cider, developed by TransGaming to run on Mac OS X. This was costly and reduced the
performance of our games by up to 30%. I drove a cost/benefit ROI analysis as well as
predictive analysis of the technical and performance debt and lack of business flexibility
associated with shim layer solution. My efforts led to the decision to create the first native Mac
port of a Sims game to date. Support for Mac OS X 10.7.5 (Lion) and up was launched to
players of the Sims 4 in February 2015. Mac OS X graphics support was provided via OpenGL.
This technology choice simplified and reduced the cost of future ports of components to iOS
mobile apps as well.
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My team was responsible for development of a post launch mobile companion app for The
Sims 4 Gallery feature. Partnered with external developer, Globant, to create an Apple iOS and
Google Android version of the online Gallery feature working with a distributed team of 10+
developers based in Uruguay.
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As base game development completed in fall of 2014, I led an assessment of technical debt
across the franchise, and built a post-launch prioritized plan to address key debt in parallel with
and without risk to planned digital commerce offerings.
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Responsible for groups that designed and implemented downloadable content delivery,
patching technology, and delivery infrastructure. These groups also developed our ban and user
generated content (UGC) management technologies and tools.
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Provided requirements and functionality feedback for evaluation and selection of companywide license of CMS solution. Evaluation included Drupal, Alfresco, Adobe CMS and others.
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My role in Launch Readiness was to oversee the process from a project risk management
perspective and to Audit the plans of partner groups and ensure any discovered issues are
addressed. This involved review and influence over partner group schedules, deliverables, test
plans, milestones and support needs.
Sr. Director of Product Development – The Sims Medieval
2010 to 2011
The Sims Medieval was a re-imagining of The Sims mechanics as a light RPG for Microsoft Windows.
The core challenge of this production was to provide players a Sims game with a satisfying castle
building experience within and RPG on a non-accommodating tech base without experts on the engine,
and to complete the project in only 9 months. I mitigated potential issues by providing access to expert
consultants, fostering group learning and knowledge sharing, and ensuring that the design could be
accomplished using existing strengths of the engine. Castle construction tools were built via a novel
approach of allowing players to assemble and customize pre-built components of castles thru a unique
shell-fitting technology and to tie the unlocking of castle components to the story progression. This
meant that users indirectly accomplished their goal of building by playing the game.
I was responsible for team assembly and hiring, as well as staff and development plans. I was also
responsible for vendor capability vetting, contract negotiation and deliverable sign-off. Worked with
legal and business affairs stakeholders to create and update vendor agreements.
Prior to this I was Director of Engineering for The Sims Medieval base game then on the Pirates and
Nobles expansion pack I was the Lead Development Director with 3 Art and Engineering Directors
reporting to me. Managed spending carefully and launched the project on time and $1 million dollars
under budget.
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Sr. Director of Product Development – My Sims Franchise
I was responsible for development direction and project
management of 3 different releases of the MySims IP from
Electronic Arts. MySims was a market opportunity franchise
designed and targeted to break into the Japanese video game
market as well as expand the Maxis/Sims customer base to
include more kids.
2007-2009
Game
Release Date
MySims Agents
Sep 29, 2009
MySims Kingdom Oct 28, 2008
Sep 28, 2007
MySims combined creativity tools, iconic characters and MySims
storytelling. It was built from the ground up to leverage the
innovative Wiimote controller of the Nintendo WII platform. Code was written in C++ and Lua. Asset
conditioning pipelines were written in Python 2.3.
Innovations included a unique and intuitive construction system that allowed players to fully customize
their world while simulation continued. Regions of continuous physics and build ability were defined
to support this goal. We also ported the base game to windows for a co-operative multiplayer
experience.
Sr. Director of Product Development – Central Technology Group
2003-2006
Served as an ambassador of change and collaboration across EA. Building on the success of the tools
group I created for the James Bond – Everything Or Nothing production, I was asked to form and run
the Central Technology Group (CTG) to provide common infrastructure, tools, and workflows across
the EA Redwood Shores studio.
Responsible for directing a team of 30-50 engineers and technical artists to develop a shared set of
tools, pipelines and engine runtime components for all games in development at the Redwood Shores
studio. Responsible for organization design, team hiring, budgets and financial planning. Provided
leadership and mentoring to three reporting directors, a senior architect, a group technical art director
and an administrative assistant. I created financial models that calculated the worth of technology we
provided. I created an embedded model in which CTG staff rotates onto client teams for some or all of
a project. This ensures that the technology is appropriate for the problem and that we have trained a
local expert to support the team going forward. This financial model was a valuable tool to
communicate value to the studio and team leadership and to gain support for further spending against
studio shared technology and the CTG group.
Served as a founder and advisor to a group of worldwide central technology development directors
charged with driving technology sharing and convergence across Electronic Arts. This group consisted
of the WW CTO and the lead directors from each EA studio’s central technology group. Participated in
quarterly summits at host EA studios to compare portfolios, needs, wins, challenges, and opportunities.
The output was an assessment of technology convergence and sharing across the company with tuned
up strategic and tactical plans to further savings and convergence.
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My CTG team built technology that evolved and remained in use for five years at Redwood Shores and
later the Visceral game studio. Games leveraging this technology included James Bond – Casino
Royal, The Godfather, The Godfather II, the Dead Space series, and the Dante’s Inferno series. Key
technology created by these teams included:
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A Model View Controller asset authoring and metadata markup platform called NEO, which
supported hub-to-asset authoring. NEO provided a launch point for all content creation and
combined a meta-database with authoring package content files and integrated with Perforce
source control.
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Trinity tools enabled cinematic authoring, connecting NEO and Maya assets together with
virtual world data.
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Character Control enabled gameplay-driven character animation state machines and dynamic
content generation.
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Proprietary lip-sync technology used for cinematics.
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Deep and robust rigging and animation tools as well as a comprehensive workflow for
animation authoring, integration and tuning.
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Lighting and Visual FX tools and pipelines.
Sr. Director of Product Development – Auditor of EALA Goldeneye team.
2004
I was sent by EA executive management in 2004 to join other game development experts at the L.A.
Studio to perform a comprehensive project review and audit of the development and technical health of
the team developing Goldeneye: Rogue Agent. I wrote a report with recommendations for turning
around the fledging production; the recommendations were implemented and the game shipped later
that year.
Sr. Development Director – James Bond - Everything or Nothing
2002-2004
At 140+ developers on the action/shooter side of the game alone, the James Bond EON production was
the largest team we had seen up to that time at EA Redwood Shores. This ambitious investment into
the Bond franchise leveraged the character action technology from EA Redwood Shores with the
racing engine from Need For Speed at EA Canada. The dual racing/shooter engine told the elaborate
EON storyline through game action and dozens of cutting edge cinematic scenes rivaling movie quality
renderings.
I was charged with modernizing and expanding the way we built games at Redwood Shores through
the creation of an embedded cross functional tools, technology and process team. The team’s mission
was to maximize results from art and gameplay content iterations and to improve workflows and
development infrastructure. I managed a team of 12 technical art directors, artists and engineers to
focus on workflows and team productivity. Prior to this, the primary focus of game development had
been the creation of engine technology along with basic tools for content creation. It was clear after
Agent Under Fire that the art in video games had become as sophisticated as films from Hollywood.
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I had a both technical and management roles in leading this cross-functional team. My roles included
development direction, program management, technical direction, and content workflow architecture.
This approach was a success, allowing us to approach game development with a balanced emphasis on
art and content in addition to game engine technology. This helped us make better quality games as
well as attract and retain a higher caliber of digital artist to Electronic Arts. Some achievements
included:
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Managed technical and support relationship with Alienbrain asset management. After the
Alienbrain database failed during production I brought on a 24/7 team to address the
instabilities and get the team moving again.
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Pioneered extensive use of animation graphs and state machines driven by gameplay to achieve
realistic and situational emergent animation based on state of gameplay. The team developed a
plug-in for a proprietary tool suite call CCT (Character Control Tool) that allowed more
realistic animations and motions to be authored.
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My team provided vertical and horizontal integration across the tool chain to asset management
and meta-data authoring on content.
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Extensively reworked EA Radiant, which was originally based on the Quake 3 Radiant level
editor.
The team and technology that my team developed for the EON production became the backbone of the
Redwood Shores Central Technology Group that lead the following year.
Sr. Development Director – James Bond Agent Under Fire (PS2/Xbox)
2002
Assembled and directed a top-notch team of 5 Senior Engineers to rapidly learn the project code and
fix defects between Alpha and Final releases while the rest of the 75+ person development team
continued to add features and iterate on gameplay and content. This effort was designed to mitigate
shipping risk while continuing to address quality issues and increase depth of the product far beyond
traditional code and content lock down dates. This novel approach proved to EA executives that, when
needed, we could take mitigated risk to successfully continue to polish a game far beyond what had
been considered possible to date.
Technical Director – Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002/2003 (PS2/PC)
2000-2002
Group Technical Director for two development teams producing the PS2 and PC versions of these
products respectively. The internal team, at Redwood Shores, was responsible for the Sony PlayStation
2 SKU while a team from Salt Lake City Utah based Headgate Studios developed the Microsoft
Windows version of the game. At the time the PC and Console engines shared little code.
Reviewed, audited and approved technical and project management plans for internal and external
teams. Provided technical guidance and feasibility assessments in design discussions.
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I advocated for and drove an initiative to increase development iteration speed through reduction of the
time to build and deliver targets for review. I focused efforts on creating deterministic builds rapidly
with automated publishing of builds to QA and production staff for review and feedback. An adage in
the games development is that iteration is king. I brought these industry best practices we perfected
with the internal team to the PC developer reducing the time required to achieve a working build from
2-3 days to a few hours.
On this project I also applied my music production background and worked with composers and sound
designers to bring a more modern feel to the Tiger Woods Series sound track.
Traveled to Tokyo Japan with a group of EA technologists for the very first developer access to the
PlayStation 2 hardware prototype at Sony Japan. Spent a week learning the architecture and
programming on the PS2 prototype learning Ring buffer DMA and GPU graphics hardware usage.
Lead Software Engineer – Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2001 (PlayStation)
2000
I was a technical co-lead on this important transitional project that moved the PGA franchise
completely to 3D. This was a challenging period for the industry and EA. I was responsible for overall
technical direction, planning for the game, and engineering management.
Responsible for engineering schedules and engineering staff development and coaching. Provided
talent evaluations and recommendations on artist and engineer placement and retention for 3D
development.
Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager – Road Rash Jailbreak (PlayStation) 1999-2000
As lead engineer on this project, I was responsible for the creation, management and deliverable
tracking for all engineering schedules. I directly managed five engineers at this time and was
responsible for the asset conditioning pipeline and graphics, and vetting technical plans put forth by the
team. I also worked with art, engineering, production and design to develop implementation solutions
to realize the games vision.
Responsible for regular defect triage and assignment. Worked with quality assurance team to ensure all
systems were fully tested and defect-free.
Sr. Software Engineer – Road Rash 3D (PlayStation)
1996-1998
I was the lead for graphics, animation and tools engineering on this team of 35. This was the title that
moved Road Rash from a sprite-based engine of the 3DO and early PlayStation port to a true 3D
engine. I wrote the asset conditioning software and tools for artists to integrate their animations,
characters, world, and vehicle art into the game. The model and animation pipeline software ran on
Silicon Graphics workstations with IRIX OS. Tools were written in C; batch processing used C shell.
Models were created using Alias Wavefront. Textures were authored using Adobe Photoshop. I was
also responsible for visual effects programming.
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This title was unique in that streaming the course data while streaming a CD quality soundtrack pushed
the practical limits of the CD hardware/software of the PlayStation console. We got every ounce of
performance out of the PlayStation console.
This installment of Road Rash also carried on the tradition to incorporate an original soundtrack of upand-coming artists against the backdrop of racing and combat.
Software Engineer – Shockwave (PlayStation Launch)
1995
Delivered one of the ten initial EA titles in that shipped at worldwide launch of the original Sony
PlayStation. My responsibilities included learning and keeping up with changes in hardware and
operating system design of the PlayStation as Sony moved towards launch. Often this involved reverse
engineering poorly documented and translated systems, reverse engineering library functionality, and
measurement and analysis of hardware performance. Performance and operation was continually
compared to Sony’s published specifications to ensure our games pushed the limits of the platform
while still working well on the early development hardware, debug stations, and production units.
I was one of two engineers responsible for providing platform specific functionality and porting the C
codebase from the 3DO release to the Sony PlayStation.
Software Engineer – Virtual reality game authoring R&D
1995
Primary engineer working on an R&D project to explore the feasibility of using cutting edge Virtual
Reality technology for authoring tracks for a ribbon based game. Used Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 and
Onyx computers to run MultiGen SmartModel Virtual Reality software and proprietary game
prototypes. This project was the first usage of virtual reality by Electronic Arts.
AURORA SYSTEMS (A division of the Chyron Corporation)
Software Engineer
1992 to 1995
Santa Clara, CA
Wrote and extended digital image processing and video production tools for post-production, film and
print for Aurora’s flag ship product, Liberty Paint, on Silicon Graphics IRIX workstations. Specialized
in machine control and digital video streaming. Highlights included processing 30 frames per second
uncompressed video streaming from striped disk array in real time at 1993 NAB show floor.
Liberty was unique in that is was hosted on off-the-shelf Silicon Graphics workstations instead of on a
proprietary computer graphics hardware platform as where competitors like the Quantel Paintbox. This
allowed Aurora to deliver best of class graphics authoring technology with broadcast production
features for $30K vs. $100K. Other competitors in this arena included Discreet Logic’s
Flint/Fire/Flame and Parallax Matador. Autodesk and Softimage later marketed these products,
respectively.
Rotoscoping is a classic compositing technique in which animators trace over film or video footage
frame by frame, for use in live action and animated films. I wrote rotoscoping software in ANSI C that
allowed artists to apply and record digital cel(luloid) animation created with Liberty over live video for
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composition of broadcast television video and digital film recording. I implemented frame buffer
merging, buffer and layer management and control and communications protocols to talk to a number
of video recording devices including the Abekas A62 digital video disk recorder and Sony Betacam
video recorder. Gained working familiarity with film, video and broadcast TV technology and
concepts such as NTSC, PAL, 3:2 pull down for film to video conversion, SMPTE color bars and
calibration.
Assigned to a skunk works project to port Liberty from Silicon Graphics to the Chyron iNFiNiT!
character generator system, which was very popular in broadcast at the time. John Madden used the
iNFiNiT! to overdraw marker over live video to illustrate plays on football broadcasts. This was quite
a challenge as I was working alone with only fragmented documentation to the iNFiNiT! and had to
intercept boot up sequences, reverse engineer drivers and develop a number of optimizations to get a
program designed for RISC based workstations to run reasonably on a Motorola 68000 based
architecture running the pSOS real time operating system with proprietary embedded components. I
impressed the Chyron executives by completing this port in 6 months and showing Liberty running on
the iNFiNiT! on the NAB show floor in 1994.
CAE-LINK SIMULATION CORPORATION (formerly Singer Link)
1988 to 1992
Hardware Software Integration and Test Engineer
Binghamton, NY and Santa Clara, CA
Held confidential level security clearance for 5 years at Link. Integrated the simulator software with
the hardware according to US Air Force specifications.
R&D Engineer:
Developed real-time executive and interface software for Silicon Graphics and Sun Workstations that
interfaced graphical mock control systems with multiple simulation clients. The finished applications
provided rapid generation of off-line interactive test systems. Provided bindings to ANSI C and
Fortran IV.
Member of team developing high-performance real-time computing technology for rapid computation
of terrain information for simulators. This terrain information system was built using a sophisticated
and novel parallel computing and distributed client server architecture. Used proprietary hardware,
including the Inmos transputer, which allowed the system to perform well for demanding simulations.
Hardware/Software Integration and Test Engineer (Lakenheath England, New York, New Mexico):
Worked on a series of implementations and installations of Link’s F111 flight simulator for the sweptwing fighter-bomber. An installation consisted of a room full of computer systems for simulation,
graphics, instructor operating and training systems, simulator hardware platform, radar management,
bombs and projectile simulations. These systems accessed local memory as well as a shared disk based
database.
Responsible for on–site development, hardware/software integration and support for 150K lines of
code through air force acceptance test of simulation systems. Experience included:
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Deep understanding of real-time software applications and synchronization.
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Parallel computing techniques.
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Ability to quickly digest military spec project specifications and documentation and develop
technical strategies to solve problems with legacy systems.
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Ability to quickly identify issues as hardware or software related. Aptitude in controlling and
manipulating hardware via software.
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Extensive applied experience with real-time operating and application level systems.
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Ability to learn code logic from high level military spec documentation as well as code
examination.
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Applying 100% accurate rigor to solving problems and simulating physical behavior.
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Applied experience on Concurrent, VAX, and proprietary computing architectures
While assigned to airbases I was also responsible for management and oversight of the configuration
management, CM, team. Managed 1-3 direct reports at various installation sites to ensure all software
releases, backups and version control processes were implemented to military standard and security
requirements.
SCIPAR INCORPORATED
Computer Electrical Engineering Intern
1986 to 1988
Santa Clara, CA
As an intern, I spent two summers working at an upstate NY firm that built power monitoring and
control systems. Typically these systems where employed by regional power companies to monitor and
control, gates, turbines and locks and along the Niagara gorge.
My first summer, I primarily performed assembly of the products, diagnosis of defects, and assistance
for other engineers with their work on the larger monitoring and control systems.
The second summer I was able to put my computer hardware design skills to use and was charged with
a ground-up design for compact and cost effective control and data acquisition system. Dubbed the
RTU-2000, my design was based around an Intel 80188/86 or Zilog Z80 based platform. The design
provided a proof of concept that a low cost entry to the market could be created using many of the
parts already on hand for the larger systems.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, 1987 – State University of New York at Buffalo
TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE
Developed or managed teams that developed embedded software, enterprise software, software tools,
desktop applications and server software using the following technologies:
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DOM and Model View Controller and cloud based storage
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RDBMS SQL databases: MySQL, SQL, ODBC, SQL Server, Oracle RAC (Real Application
Cluster)
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Source and Asset Control: Perforce, Alien Brain, CVS, Visual Source Safe
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Non-SQL Databases: Cassandra, Mongo
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Scripting: Python, Lua, C Shell, BASH, Adobe Flash and Action Script
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Languages: C & C++, FORTRAN IV
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Assemblers: 8080, 8085, 6802, 6805, Z80, PDP-11, VAX VMS
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Web: HTML, CSS, HTTP
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Akamai and L3 Content Delivery Network (CDN)
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Content Management Systems: Drupal CMS, Adobe CMS
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RISC architecture
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Inmos Transputer based parallel and distributed client-server computing architectures
DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES
Used Visio, Microsoft Project, Excel, Hansoft, Jira and other tools with the following methodologies:
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Waterfall, Scrum/Agile, Kanban
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Extreme programming, Iterative design and prototyping
COMPUTER HARDWARE EXPERIENCE
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Board Design: Designed Z80 based RTU-2000 embedded hydro electric data acquisition and
control system
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Gaming Platforms: Sony PlayStation (PSX), Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo
Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360
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Machine control: VLAN control of Sony, SMPTE, Abekas A62 and ACCOM protocols for
video recorders
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Video board integration: SGI VideoLab, Video Framer, SGI Galileo, Chyron Centaur/Cindy,
Photron
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Dell and HP server class hardware
OPERATING SYSTEMS USED
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Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac PowerPC, Apple Mac OS X, Silicon Graphics IRIX (Unix
system V with BSD extensions), Google Android, Apple iOS, BSD Unix
JAMES W. ROGERS
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EXPERT RESUME
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Concurrent, DEC VAX VMS, PDP 11, Sun Microsystems Unix, pSOS real time operating
system
SOFTWARE USER EXPERIENCE
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Adobe Photoshop, DeBabelizer, Liberty Paint,
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Microsoft Project, Jira, Hansoft, MindManager, XMind
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Microsoft Sharepoint, HipChat, Slack, Basecamp, Confluence, Wiki
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Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, 365)
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Microsoft Visual Studio, GNU Emacs, Bash Shell, C Shell, Python, Perforce, CVS
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Authored original music using Pro-Tools 7 and Logic Pro 9, Band-in-a-box, Voyetra MIDI
Sequencing Software
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Mixed, Mastered and Produced Mark Kostrzewa’s second CD release entitled, From Ear to
There. Released Jan 2014
CERTIFICATIONS
Completed Mark Cohn’s Scrum Master training in 2007 at Electronic Arts
TECHNICAL WRITING
RTU-2000 System Design and Documentation for a Remote Terminal Unit system for controlling
locks and water levels in the Niagara Power System. – Dec 1988
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
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SIGGRAPH 1997
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IEEE
JAMES W. ROGERS
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EXPERT RESUME