The Fort Lauderdale ACM SIGGRAPH Professional Chapter and
The South Florida IGDA present:

Mark Bradshaw, Director of Development, Stratogon Entertainment.

Mark is the Director of Development of Stratogon Entertainment Corp. He holds a BS in Computer Science with an option in Mathematics from the California State University of Long Beach. With over 15 years in computer graphics and games development he has worked for several major game developers and has over 20 published game titles to his credit. After working for 5 years in image and video processing he developed his first Edutainment title for HyperKnowledge. The experience landed him a job at Sega as a producer / programmer and he led a team to create the very successful "Lose your Marbles" game that was part of the Windows 98 plus pack. He later worked as a lead programmer on "Warsport", one of the first Internet only real-time strategy games that supported voice communication online. After shipping the first person shooter "Klingon Honor Guard" and the strategy game "Civilization II test o! ! ! f time" for Microprose, he helped to start a company called AweGames, where he still holds an ownership partner position. While at AweGames as Project Director / Lead Programmer, he developed several children's games with some of the biggest licenses in the industry attached to them. Some of these titles included SpongeBob, Shrek 2, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Spiderman 2, Jimmy Neutron, Codename: Kids Next Door, and several others. After several years at Awe, Mark helped to start Stratogon Entertainment. Stratogon continued to do work for AweGames as well as others. While doing work for these companies Stratogon began developing their own technologies and intellectual properties.

Mark Bradshaw now runs the day-to-day development operations for Stratogon Entertainment Corp. With his strong technical background and large number of shipped games he is able to oversee the technical improvements to their game engines and focus development in a way to maximize efficiency and help to facilitate great on-time and on- budget games.

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