Judy Tyrer
English Literature and Secondary Education graduate from Southern Methodist University, with Post-graduate studies in Educational Psychology from NYU. Currently working as a Network Engineer at Red Storm Entertainment.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | C/C++, Java, Languages and Platforms, Perl, SQL, System Administration, Unix, Web Development |
| Groups: | Women 2.0 |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | New York University, Southern Methodist University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Red Storm Entertainment |
| Position: | Network Engineer |
| Time period: | December 2004 - Present |
| Description: | re-factor low level network library providing reliable and unreliable transport over UDP for PC, XBOX360 and PS3; Game Finder on the LAN; NAT traversal; Network emulation using NEWT, Wireshark, and Netgear Smart Switches; text and voice chat (XHV, Dolby Axon); Join on the Fly; Server Migration; multi-player UI features; Xbox LIVE Session Management, Friends Lists, DLC; Clan support; Matchmaking on Ubisoft proprietary on-line system; Leaderboards; Achievements |
| Employer: | Quest Software, Inc |
| Position: | Development Manager |
| Time period: | June 2001 - August 2002 |
| Description: | Shareplex Cluster and Shareplex Replicated File Systems. Supervised a team of 18, 7 direct reports. Oracle 8.1.7 and 9.2; File systems: UFS, HFS, VXFS and JFS; Solaris, HPUX and AIX. |
| Employer: | Locus Computing, Inc |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | December 1987 - May 2001 |
| Description: | Development Technical Lead and Project Manager for Locus Computing, Platinum Technology, Tandem, Compaq, Computer Associates: the same job under different corporate letterheads due to multiple corporate buy-outs.
Project manager and Architect for POEMS Security Systems, a Role Based Access Control (RBAC) security system for enterprise software. Five direct reports. RBAC used point-to-point networking, client/server and three tiered thin client architecture. Technical Team Lead for UNIX networked clusters providing single system image across a heterogeneous platform environment. Team Lead for 30 developers. Prototyped OSF’s DCE on AIX 3.1; OSF’s DFS on AS/400; Locus Clusters for AIX 1.1 and AIX 1.2 running TCP/IP and UDP network between i386 and VM370 platforms. Member Development Process Task Force for Baldwin Award and ISO9000 Certification. Member POSIX certification committee for AIX 1.2 and AIX 1.2.1. Mentor in college rotation program. Member of the distributed file system consortium for OSF. Other: Raydion: Co-owner and operator of a small restaurant in Hollywood. Control Data Corp: Education Specialist - designed serious games for PLATO system. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Southern Methodist University |
| Degree: | Bachelor’s Degree; English Literature and Secondary Education |
| University: | New York University |
| Degree: | Post-graduate studies in Educational Psychology |
PUBLICATIONS
| Papers: | Selling the Psychological Approach (Control Data)
OSF’s Distributed Computing Environment File System (IBM Share) Adding Tightly Consistent File System Replication to OSFs DCE File System (Uniforum) |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | IGDA: Quality of Life Advocacy Committee; Women in Games SIG; Game Writers SIG; Game Design SIG
GDC Speaker: 2006, 2009 IGC East Speaker: 2009 |
