Darrell Christmas
Technical Director at Electronic Arts (EA)
- Role
- Technical Director at Maxis Studios - Ea
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Darrell Christmas
Currently, Darrell works at Full Circle Studio (an EA Studio) as the Lead UGX Engineer. Details to come as he grows into this new position.Darrell just finished shipping Dragon Age: The Veilguard as the Lead Game Systems and UX Programmer for Dragon Age. Previously, Darrell had oversaw engineering development on Anthem when it was live. Darrell has expertise on features related to progression, economy, game flow, items and inventory where all facets of the game and tech are networked and have to be persistent. Darrell has worked at EA Tiburon as an Audio Engineer for the NBA Live Basketball franchise. He was responsible for all of the audio in the game, tools necessary to build logic and data, and relationships with many other teams in the company dealing with audio on behalf of NBA Live.Darrell also worked as a General Engineer at Darkside Game Studios before going back to Electronic Arts. At DGS Darrell has worked on IPhone titles and larger multiplatform games made with Unreal. Darrell has been focusing on User Interface Engineering and Online functionality.Before then, Darrell worked at EA Tiburon as a User Interface Engineer completing work on EA SPORTS MMA and NCAA Football 11. He was responsible for loading transitions, career screen flow, some create a fighter features and some online screen features on MMA. And on NCAA Darrell was responsible for the functionality and usability of online capable screens. Prior to working at EA, Darrell was a student at FIEA where he specialized in Networking and had a large interest in Engine Architecture.Specialties: actionscript, adobe photoshop, api, artificial intelligence, c, c ++, data management, documentum, dreamweaver, engineering, etl, flash, gl, illustrator, java, languages, maya, microsoft access, microsoft c #, microsoft foundation classes, motorola hardware, mysql, networking, opengl, oracle dba, oracle developer php, programming, python, lua, shell scripting, sound, sql, unix shell scripting, visual studio, web site production, xml, json.Shipped Titles: EA Sports NCAA Football 2011, EA Sports MMA, Spec Ops: The Line, NBA Live 2014, NBA Live 2015, NBA Live 2016, NBA Live 2018, Anthem, Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Experience
Technical Director
Dec 2025 — Present · Austin, TX, US
Technical Director on Sims
Education
Fairleigh Dickinson University
BS, Computer Science
2001 — 2005
University of Central Florida
MS, Interactive Entertainment
2008 — 2009
St. Benedict's Prep School
High School Diploma
Skills
- Xbox 360
- Video Games
- Ps3
- C#
- Visual Studio
- Actionscript
- Python
- C++
- Opengl
- Xml
- Java
- Maya
- Software Development
- Mysql
- Php
- Programming
- Uml
- Javascript
- Sql
- Lua
- Perforce
- Directx
- System Architecture
- Leadership
- Game Development
- Game Design
- User Interface
- Flash
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