Neil Flynn

Ph: 780-424-1024

Employment History

Codefly Software Inc.

June 2005 – Current

Bioware Corp.

- Maintained and extended existing Maya and 3DS Max scripts

- Designed and implemented new Maya import plug ins

- Extended existing toolset to support new game enhancements

- Improved art content pipeline to allow easier artist work flow

- Set up art render farm

- Set up a SQL Server database which held all the designer data for a project

- Created in-game eCommerce communication

- Designed a system to convert raw data logging to useable information using minimal time and storage

- Designed and implemented the Facebook integration for a social game

- Implemented backend database and scripts for logging, error reporting and all social aspects

Electronic Arts

- Design and implement a web browser based massively muliplayer game engine in php and MySQL.

M3 Technologies / TransAlta

- Restructured daily data collection into an online database for easy input, display and study

- Managed 3rd party system integration for employee and productivity data

NovAtel Inc.

- Added new functionality to existing handheld program

- Created new export formats for GPS data

- Investigated new algorithms for streaming topographic data

- Design and implement an online system for client device management

- Used embedded Visual C++, COM, Windows CE API, MFC

InsiderPages.com

- Designed and implemented an automated testing suite

- Used Java, JDBC

X1 Technologies Inc.

- Extended existing code to support UTF-8 text

- Created a test suite for the new functionality

Stochasto

- Created data gathering perl scripts

- Updated and redesigned server code for scalability

- Managed commerce transactions through php scripts

- Designed and implemented a customer database and website communication with it

BioWare Corp.

Feb 2001 – May 2005

Assistant Lead Programmer, Mass Effect

- Helped schedule the daily tasks of a large team of 20+ programmers

- Documented and designed an effect system

- Lead the programming effort involved in several game demos, interfacing with all major team leads and resolving scheduling conflicts with non-demo related tasks

Senior Programmer, Jade Empire

- Lead a team of 6 programmers responsible for various aspects of the game

· The game’s automated build process

· The GUI system

· The animation control system

- Scheduled tasks and did code reviews for the team

- Gave performance reviews of the team

- Coordinated with all departments to adapt the build process for any changes or updates in game resources

- Wrote the code for several visual effects

Lead Tools Programmer, Neverwinter Nights Expansion 1

- Maintained existing NWN toolset

- Designed and created improvements such as the Plot Editor

- Communicated with the large NWN community through message boards and in-person focus testing

- Wrote script editor

Senior Tools Programmer, Neverwinter Nights

- Designed and created several editors for the original NWN toolset such as the conversation editor

- Maintained and extended most of the NWN toolset editors

NovAtel Inc. / Point Inc.

Jan 1997 – Jan 2001

Windows Programmer / Senior Programmer

- Shipped several versions of the desktop suite of tools accompanying the GPS systems

- Extended all of the programs in the suite

- Wrote the graphics library used on both the desktop and handheld versions

- Wrote the program’s security and remote activation algorithms

- Wrote install scripts using Installshield

- Maintained Perl automated build system