Andy Vella - Sunblink | LinkedIn (original) (raw)

Christa Fenus-Cates “Andy is amazing. Let me repeat - Andy is amazing. He can do it all - tools programming, content programming, tech programming, everything! And it will be done fast, with all the features you want and then some, and will be done right. At Factor 5, he was originally hired as a tools programmer, and did an awesome job - he took an old, outdated proprietary design tool, and made it stable and more functional by leaps and bounds. If we needed a new feature, he almost always got it to us quick. He then shifted over to content programming and continued to amaze. On my last project at F5, he was the first programmer assigned to us during pre-production, and there could not have been a better choice. During his time on that project, he gave us a new state machine script editor that was powerful tool for prototyping pretty much everything design could think of, created a city renderer that allowed us to build massive urban environments, and even got our PS3 game up and running on the Wii - keeping Wii builds a milestone behind our lead PS3 sku in terms of functionality. If any team ever has an opportunity to Hire Andy, they should jump at the chance and count themselves immeasurably fortunate.”