Bruce Shankle

Current

• Senior Test Lead - Windows 7 Graphics at Microsoft
• Founder at Veracity Logic

Past

• Tools Engineer at Red Storm Entertainment
• Tools Engineer at Ubisoft/Red Storm Entertainment
• Development Manager / Architect at Data Design Associates

• Consultant at Questra

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Education

• North Carolina State University
• Anson Senior High

Recommended

9 people have recommended Bruce

Connections

78 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Company

Bruce Shankle’s Summary

Bruce Shankle is a private pilot, musician, author and software developer who has 13 years of software development experience covering many different industry segments including military, space, imaging, telephony, and electronic entertainment. His professional involvement in the game industry started in 2000 when he joined Epic Games as a technology director to organize support for Unreal engine licensees. Bruce is now on a lead on the DirectX team at Microsoft after a working on the engineering team of Ubisoft's Red Storm studio where he is created game development tools and technologies for next-generation consoles.

Bruce Shankle’s Specialties:

C++, C#, Graphics, Simulation, Pre-computed radiance transfer, Spherical Harmonics, Shaders, Modular plug-in architectures, telephony, relational database design, team and project management.

Bruce Shankle’s Experience

• Senior Test Lead - Windows 7 Graphics

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

• Founder

  Veracity Logic

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)

• Tools Engineer

  Red Storm Entertainment

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  July 2006 — May 2007 (11 months)

• Tools Engineer

  Ubisoft/Red Storm Entertainment

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year )

• Development Manager / Architect

  Data Design Associates

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Services industry)

  April 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 7 months)

• Consultant

  Questra

  (Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year )

Bruce Shankle’s Education

• North Carolina State University

  Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering 1989 — 1993

• Anson Senior High

Additional Information

Bruce Shankle’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Company

Bruce Shankle’s Interests:

Programming, aviation, piano, music composition, technical writing. I am a VFR-rated private pilot. Experimental aircraft.

Bruce Shankle’s Groups:

IGDA, EAA, AOPA

Bruce Shankle’s Honors:

Graham L. Lutz Memorial Award
National Honor Society
Voted Most Likely To Succeed in High School

Bruce Shankle’s Contact Settings

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