Rachel Rutherford

Current

• Professor, Game Software Design & Production at DigiPen Institute of Technology

Past

• Program Manager, Carbonated Games at Microsoft Casual Games
• Software Interface Engineer at ImMIX

Education

• Oberlin College

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Industry

Computer Games

Rachel Rutherford’s Experience

• Professor, Game Software Design & Production

  DigiPen Institute of Technology

  (Educational Institution; Computer Games industry)

  June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  I teach game development at DigiPen Institute ot Technology, the premiere game development school in the world. Chirs Peters, Benjamin Ellinger and I have developed an innovative "Tech/Game/Team" approach, where we team-teach over 70 teams of 4-to-5 developers, to build year-long games. We each focus on our specialty, giving the student developers a deep grounding in tech, game, and team skills. We use the McCarthy Core Protocols for high-performant teams within our own team, and with the students.
  
  Faculty advisor & co-founder for Game Physics Club, Game Music Composer's Club, and Producers Club.

• Program Manager, Carbonated Games

  Microsoft Casual Games

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  March 2005 — August 2008 (3 years 6 months)

  Program Manager/Producer for Casual Games on a variety of platforms. Shipped:
  - "Hop It!", a piece-hopping puzzle game for the MSN Games (Producer)
  - "Solitaire in Motion." a drifting card memory-game variant for MSN Games (Co-Producer)
  - "You Know It! Triviia," a trivia game for MSN Games (Originating Producer)
  - "Fable 2 Pub Games" for the Xbox 360 (Art Producer, PreProduction)
  - "Firefly" demo for Microsoft Surface (Producer)

• Software Interface Engineer

  ImMIX

  (Computer Games industry)

  1990 — 1994 (4 years)