Ben Stragnell

Senior Director, Online Technology

Ben Stragnell is a skilled expert, that works in Activision main office of which is in 116. as a Senior Director, Online Technology since 2012. This person has earned professional experience in more than 12 positions at various companies. Ben Stragnell went to the University of Bath Institute For Policy Research (Ipr) and received education there from 1991 to 1994. Los Angeles, California is the area, where this person was known to settle. This professional's email address and phone number can be easily accessed through SoftwareOfficial on demand.
Name variants:
Benedict Stragnell, Benjamin Stragnell, Bennet Stragnell, Ebenezer Stragnell
Last updated May 06, 2024

Contact Information

Last Update
Jul 5, 2022
Email
be**@activision.com, li**@codepuppies.com
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Company

Workplace

Activision
Senior Director, Online Technology

Industry

Computer Games

Work History

Senior Director, Online Technology

3100 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
Among other things, I designed, built, and manage the framework that's used to deploy and manage the game servers for "some big online games that you may have heard of". It's pretty sweet.
from Sep 2012

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer

P/O Box 94334, Seattle, WA
Jan 2011 — Jun 2012

Contractor and Technician Lead

6427 west Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028
Gobbler provides cloud-based backup/collaboration software for Audio professionals. Our team of three took Gobbler from a loose concept to a shipped, functioning product in six months. See h...
Mar 2010 — Nov 2010

Co-Founder and Chief Information Officer

Online ordering for restaurants, with no additional effort required on the part of the restaurant. We built some outstanding technology, but ultimately realized that the barriers to success ...
Mar 2009 — Mar 2010

Contractor

California
2009 — 2010

Lead Programmer

Designed and implemented much of the high-perf network infrastructure supporting Flektor, an in-browser media editor. I think there's a good chance that, at the time, this was the most advan...
Sep 2006 — Jan 2009

Lead Programmer

2425 Olympic Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Feb 2004 — Jul 2006

Technical Director

Helped transition a videogame art production team into a full-fledged game developer. Interviewed, hired and managed a team of programmers. Built a game demo (based on lots of particle physi...
Nov 2002 — Feb 2004

Lead Programmer

14000 Quail Springs Pkwy SUITE 230, Oklahoma City, OK 73134
I joined Static to work on a highly flexible framework for MMO titles. I developed the network infrastructure, OpenGL-based engine, all based on a highly pluggable/extendable architecture. A...
Apr 2000 — Nov 2002

Senior Programmer

940 east Santa Clara St, Ventura, CA 93001
Ported Left Field's previous game, Slam'n'Jam, from PSX to PC in a month or two, which included designing and implementing custom video codecs, software audio mixing library, software polygo...
Mar 1996 — Apr 2000

Programmer

My first job in the games industry involved a great deal of bare-metal engineering. I wrote (and re-wrote several times) a whole bunch of custom i586-optimized software polygon renderers for...
Sep 1994 — Mar 1996

Student Programmer

Ibm
New York, NY
Secured a position in IBM's Pre-University-Employee program, and spent a year working as a programmer in the Geographic Information Systems group. Not the most thrilling work, to be sure, bu...
Sep 1990 — Jun 1991

Occupations

Executive
Senior Director
IT Professional
Computer Software Professional
Co-Founder
Technology Director
Senior Manager
Operations Manager
Software Developers
Founder
Chief Executive
Technology Manager
Technical Managers

Skills

C++
Game Development
Linux
Ruby
Mobile Applications
Ps3
Video Games
Game Design
User Interface
Ruby on Rails
Perforce
Ios Development
Programming
Web Development
Sql
Objective C
Network Programming
Video Game Production
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