Brian 'Psychochild' Green

Objective

Work Experience

• Independent Consultant
• Perform expert work for Kenyon & Kenyon law firm, including research for patent defense, evaluation of contracts and multi-million dollar budgets for game development, and review of technical and design documents for firm clients.  January 2005 - present
• Consulted and did contract programming on new PvP system for Saga of Ryzom for Nevrax France.  August 2005 - November 2005
• Co-Founder, Near Death Studios, Inc., 2655 Miller Ave #4, Mountain View, CA, 94040. February 2001 - present.
• Assisted with the purchase and relaunch of the online RPG Meridian 59.
• Lead technical development and assist with design for Resurrection and Evolution expansions.
• Design, implement, and document new and existing game systems.
• Perform the duties of corporate Secretary and Chief Financial Officer, including tax paperwork.
• Negotiate international licenses for Meridian 59 and other business contracts.
• Work on marketing plans and maintain relationships with press contacts.
• Interact and negotiate with independent contractors, lawyers, and accountants.
• Software Engineer, Communities.com (out of business), Cupertino, CA 95014. May 2000 - November 2000.
• Was the primary content engineer for the content-focused studios group.
• Was point of contact for external game development contractor.
• Worked on custom plug-ins for The Palace servers using custom API.
• Developed and consulted on small games for third-party Palace servers.
• Helped implement demos of new technology using Javascript.
• Software Engineer II (promoted from Software Engineer I), The 3DO Company (out of business), Redwood City, CA 94063. May 1998 - March 2000.
• Shipped two updates to Meridian 59: Insurrection and Dark Auspices and shipped a patch named "Liberation".
• Designed and documented new features, such as a new combat engine and updating of spells.
• Implemented additional features, such as the combat engine, using a proprietary scripting language.
• Debugged, updated, and documented existing code from previous development teams.
• Provided technical support for Customer Service and international licensees of Meridian 59.
• Programmed for Crusaders of Might and Magic for the PC.

Game Development Skills

• MUDs/MMORPGs:
  • Have played for 13 years, coded for 12 years and designed for 9 years.
  • Programmed and designed for Meridian 59 commercial online graphical RPG.
  • Have been assistant administrator, lead designer, and coder on various text MUDs in college.
    
  • Known online as "Psychochild".
• Published Work:
  • Maintain a professional weblog discussing development issues at http://www.psychochild.org/.
  • Co-editor of Businesss & Legal Primer for Game Development published by Charles River Media.
  • Article on gameplay balance in Massively Multiplayer Game Development 2, Thor Alexander, ed.
• Conference Speaker: Invited speaker at Game Developer's Conference; MUD-Dev Conference; Austin Game Developer's Conference; State of Play; Accelerating Change; Games, Learning and Society Conference.
• Interests: Research on online multiplayer game issues: community, social engineering, player killing, role-playing, storytelling, gameplay balance, scripting languages and other programming issues.
• Traditional RPGs: a fan of pen and paper games such as WEG d6, In Nomine, AD&D, Werewolf.

Engineering Skills

• C++ is my primary language.
• Experienced with: C/C++, Python (including Stackless), Java,HTML. Worked on Windows and Unix platforms.
• Familiar with: Scheme, PHP, Javascript.
• Additional experience: Localization, scripting languages, game system design and implementation, technical and design documentation.

Language Skills

• Effective writer and speaker in English.
• Have studied Spanish language, culture and literature for 9 years in high school and college.
• Capable at reading, writing, speaking, and listening in Spanish.
• Taking German classes at local community college.
  
• Keen interest in linguistics and language.
• Enjoy creative writing and storytelling, particularly game-related fiction.

Additional Qualifications

• Quick learner with a desire to continue growing by learning new things.
• Able to work within a team, can follow directions or lead others as necessary.
• Have diverse experience and understand online game development from design to implementation to launch to support and maintenance.
  

Education

• B.S. in Computer Science, May 1997, Iowa State University (Ames, IA).
• B.A. in Spanish, May 1997, Iowa State University (Ames, IA).
• Minor in Business, May 1997, Iowa State University.

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