PAUL WILKINSON

Managed dev team for Mobile App company

• Responsible for all Product and Development
• Improved processes and collaboration across organization
• Lead Agile and Tech transformations

• Managed 2 teams for FinTech company
• Introduced and managed shared backlog across development organization
• Improved processes and collaboration across organization

• Designed server architecture for Guilds, Chat, Collections, Protocols, Collections, Crafting, Evolution, Fusion
• Implemented Unity client code in C#
• Soft-launched mobile RPG game Bad Energy Kids and optimised KPIs

• Responsible for Product, Development and QA at Industrial SaaS company
• Created and managed Engineering, Operations, QA and Product teams
• Responsible for Architecture of Mobile App, Web
• Introduced Agile methodologies, CI/CD
• Managed transition to Microservices, AWS

• Designed mobile game Bad Energy Kids, including theme, characters, gameplay and metagame
• Built and managed team of 9 engineers, artists, animators and UA specialist;
• Implemented live configuration system in Java, Typescript and python

• Design and production of mobile game Forever Donuts
• Responsible for profit and loss of game
• Built and managed team of 12 engineers, artists, animators, producer and data scientist;
• Designed and directed new metagame and economy
• Designed and directed new server architecture for Guilds, Chat, Collections, Protocols, Collections, Crafting, Evolution, Fusion, Guild-vs-Guild events

• Co-founded self-funded casual mobile games startup
• Sold company to N3TWORK
• Built and managed development team and advisory board
• Designed and produced social mobile game Forever Donuts
• Designed game engine and wrote client code in C++, Objective-C and Lua
• Designed server architecture

• Responsible for shared mobile development world-wide
• Assisted in scaling mobile engineering organisation and aligning studios and business units world-wide
• Managed development of shared technology and processes for 6 game development studios
• Designed systems around “games as service” issues, including cross promotion, ads, downloadable content, controlled rollout of features, and data-driven product development
• Represented mobile development to non-technical business units including Performance Marketing, Ad Sales, Customer Relations, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence.

• Senior engineer for Zynga's Dream Zoo and Dream Dragons games on iOS
• Tasks: Wrote client code in Objective C using UIKit and cocos2d
• Worked closely with the cocos2d founders in restructuring our shared client/server architecture.

• Lead engineer for Playfirst's "Dash" series of mobile games on iOS
• Tasks: Lead architect for mobile engine; a set of shared cross-platform libraries used internally and externally
• Implemented a distribution platform for mobile games; server-hosted game content, monetization features
• Before that, I implemented and released a #1 casual game (Love and
• Death: Bitten) on PC and Mac.

• Scrum Master
• Tasks: Wrote client and server code for networked slot machines
• Maintained GDK for use by external developers
• Developed and automated certification procedures for submissions by external developers
• Lead engineer and Scrum Master for a system that allowed gamers to connect to charities.

• Major clients: Soma Engineering (startup with friends), Muse Research, Singshot Media Inc.,
• Cremoni Poker Software, 4orty 2wo Entertainment
• Project Durations: 3-18 months each, typically 1 yr+
• Project Descriptions:
• Soma – Designed and implemented, digital audio workstation software and an SDK
• Muse - Implemented Linux support for popular Windows-based VST plugins and copy-protection systems
• Coordinated third-party developers
• C, Linux, Wine
• Singshot Media - Implemented a recording client for an online karaoke site
• Cremoni Poker Software - Implemented an online poker site under contract with 4orty 2wo
• Entertainment
• See www.lastcallpoker.com.

• C++ developer for The Sims (the original PC version), The Sims Online, and The Sims 2 and SimCity 3000

• Directed audio production and audio software engineering for game development studio
• Managed team of 3 plus external contractors.
• Wrote C++ code for PC and Playstation

• Hired, Trained and mentored new team members
• Designed and Delegated audio engine development tasks
• Worked with publishers to develop and refine audio goals