Chris Brunning

***** ** **** **, ******, *****, WA, USA +1-206-***-**** ad2nje@r.postjobfree.com

Personal

Statement

● I am a highly experienced professional with many years of experience in all areas of game, and game technology development. I am committed to excellence tempered with a pragmatic attitude for timely delivery.

● I have successfully led scientific teams, military teams, and games teams for my entire career, through thoughtful leadership, and a positive attitude.

● I learn quickly and adapt to new situations rapidly.

● My scientific background, and long experience as a programmer have made me very technical, and able to understand technical problems with little information.

● I want involvement in all aspects of a project from conception to conclusion, technical and managerial, working with other internal teams, and external parties during production, to leading the technical aspects of productions in a studio/company.

● I am a British Citizen, holding a US Green Card

Key Skills

● Skilled in project planning and administration both in traditional waterfall style and agile style.

● Good understanding of project management, project planning, and delivering results.

● Thorough understanding of business priorities, having worked with CEOs, CTOs, and Business Development across USA, Europe, and Asia.

● Strong mathematical knowledge, and technical competence.

● Skilled in running development of games on PC/Mac, Mobile devices, and Consoles

Work

Experience

Technical Program Manager - Riot Games

May 2022 - Present

● Building, and maintaining roadmaps across multiple teams, whilst accounting for both internal, and external quarterly requests.

● Working with internal, and external business units, across 3 continents, to ensure appropriate work priorities align with the needs of the business.

● Writing, clarifying, and refining both internal, and external project requests with Technical Lead, Delivery Lead, and appropriate stakeholders to determine actionable work streams, and timeline estimates.

● Weekly alignment with internal engineers to ensure work is fully understood, and how it is relevant to the business unit, and company as a whole.

● Weekly upwards facing progress reports based around projects, and business unit KPRs.

● Regular stakeholder updates through meetings, presentations, and newsletters.

● Regular meetings with key stakeholders to understand their priorities, and future goals.

● Ensuring that any potential pivots in work requirements are assessed, and staffed appropriately.

● Regular assessment of structure, and skill sets of teams, and resource requirements.

Technical Program Manager - Amazon Builder Tools

December 2018 – May 2022

● Analyzing pipelines, and deployments to determine potential new mechanisms, and projects for increasing the reliability of software.

● Writing, and proposing projects across multiple engineering teams, across 3 continents, to increase the monitoring, reliability of world-wide software deployment.

● Developing a long term roadmap for the improvement of deployment safety, and predicting the impact of individual projects.

● Driving accepted safety deployment strategies to their conclusion.

● Weekly meetings with managers of engineering teams involved in the projects, collating milestone updates, aligning with other work, and assessing any potential risks to delivery.

● Presenting, and reporting to AWS leadership on the purpose, and progress of deployment safety work across multiple teams.

Solutions Architect - Amazon Game Services (AGS)

December 2014 – December 2018

● Responsible for customer interaction on a technical level for the Lumberyard game engine, and associated services, including GameLift, GameSparks, general AWS cloud services for games.

● First line of technical support for new customers, and customer advocate to internal development teams.

● Designed potential solutions for customers using Amazon Game Services.

● Worked with multiple external companies as customer advocate within AGS across multiple development teams to drive areas of development that are important for companies using Lumberyard, and AWS cloud services. Technical Manager - CRYENGINE, Crytek

January 2014 - December 2014

● Responsible for technical direction of CRYENGINE for internal, and external use, ensuring the quality, and timely delivery of the next iteration of CRYENGINE.

● Producing, and maintaining feature delivery roadmap.

● First point of contact with engine licensees on.

● Presenting roadmaps, and new features to licensees in person, and conferences.

Technical Director - Ryse, Crytek

April 2012 – January 2014

● Technical lead, and member of the senior director’s group on the Microsoft Xbox One exclusive product Ryse.

● Responsible for driving technical excellence for the product.

● Jointly responsible with project EP and Microsoft Senior Producer for final shipping.

● Microsoft technical liaison, risk assessment, and driving SDK changes.

● Liaison with other Crytek teams, and studios to drive technical innovation, and cross project collaboration.

● Member of Crytek Architectural Review Group.

● Manager Central Technology, Codemasters

March 2010 – April 2012 Codemasters Software Limited

● Lead Programmer (Technical Producer), Central Technology August 2007 – February 2010 Codemasters Software Limited

● Lead Programmer

December 2004 – August 2007 Climax Handheld

● Lead Programmer

June 2004 – December 2004 Kuju Entertainment

● Lead Programmer

June 2001 – June 2004 Deibus Studios

● Software Director

July 1988 – March 2001 Tiertex Limited

● Higher Scientific Officer - MOD (PE)

January 1980 - July 1988

Education ● Warwick Technology Centre - 2008 - Prince2 Practitioner

● Fitzwilliam College Cambridge - 1976 - 1979 - BA/MA Natural Sciences

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