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- Ei-Nyung Choi “Andy joined Self Aware Games just as it was getting large enough that we needed to think about organization & process. Andy brought two rare strengths, each hard to find but nigh-impossible to find combined in one person: 1. Incredible speed & thoroughness as an engineer. If you can only hire one engineer, and you have the opportunity to bring Andy on board, it'll be the best decision you've ever made. He can execute like nobody you know, and can do things that seem initially impossible to do with code. 2. The inherent desire to fix things and make things better. This quality shines in him both as an engineer and as a leader. He can't leave inefficient processes alone. He can't leave bad code alone. He can't let obstacles lie where they may. He is on fire when he is taking the team and making things better for everyone. You present Andy with a problem and he will find a way to destroy it, in the best way. And the very best part of all this is that he is incredibly easy and fun to work with. He is even-tempered, patient, hardworking, and dogged in his determination to help the team succeed. The cherry on top is that he's fun to work with. He's a leader and engineer that is well loved no matter what department you talk to. The term gets thrown around a lot, but let me be clear, it is no exaggeration to say that Andy is a rockstar in the development world. He's even more of an unicorn in that he's a rockstar you'll LOVE working with.”
- 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 At Factor 5, he was originally hired as a tools programmer, and did an awesome job - he took an old, outdated proprietary design tool, and made it stable and more functional by leaps and bounds.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.”
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