Edinburgh-based technical leader
A University of Edinburgh alum with a PhD in VLSI design, followed by 25+ years building engines, studios, teams, and ambitious interactive products across games and adjacent technology.
Common thread
Hardware understanding, real-time rendering, behavioural design, and hands-on product leadership have been a consistent thread through the work from the start.
Technical background
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A University of Edinburgh alum with a PhD in VLSI design. My research focused on error correction and parallel processing for mobile communications, and it still shapes how I think about hardware constraints, vector workloads, throughput, and scale.
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I have worked through the full arc from the early days of dedicated 3D hardware to modern real-time rendering. That includes engine work across PC, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and the original Xbox.
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I have been building AI systems in games since 1996: autonomous units, mob behaviour, encounter logic, and multiplayer bots. That experience matters because useful AI is always grounded in behaviour, feedback, constraints, and player trust.
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My roles have ranged from engineer to Head of Software, Technical Director, founder, and CTO. I build teams, mentor leads, rescue projects, run due diligence, and stay close enough to the work to make hard technical decisions stick.
Selected work
Built a long-running consultancy for games and adjacent technology companies. The work spans studio formation, project rescue, technical reviews, due diligence, cloud migration, delivery leadership, and hands-on engineering support.
Co-founded a mixed reality storytelling studio and worked with Magic Leap during its pre-market phase. We developed concepts and technology demonstrators that sat between immersive narrative, spatial computing, and next-generation interface design.
Built an Edinburgh studio from scratch to ship branded virtual world experiences for PlayStation Home. I hired and managed the team, led technical direction, and operated in a fast release cycle that demanded both creative range and delivery discipline.
Started as a software engineer and grew into leadership as the studio scaled to roughly 250 people. I wrote engines and game systems, led programmers, presented at GDC, and worked through a formative era for console 3D graphics and game AI.
Capabilities
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