What Happened?
El Segundo, CA-based Konami has Appointed Julien Merceron as Director of Technology
About the Company
Konami Digital Entertainment a wholly owned subsidiary of Konami Corporation, is a leading, global developer, publisher and manufacturer of electronic entertainment properties, specializing in the home video game market. Headquartered in Tokyo Japan, Konami Corporation first began operating in North America in 1982, and has been publishing computer and video games as Konami of America (KOA) since 1999 from its offices in Redwood City, California near San Francisco. In October of 2003, Konami Corporation moved to strengthen its content planning and production by expanding its operations to Los Angeles, California under the new name of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. This bold and exciting move was designed to strengthen the company`s worldwide business, North American market share and future growth in the interactive entertainment marketplace. Located in heart of the entertainment capitol, KDEI focuses on the areas of global product brand growth strategies, business development and licensing activities.
About the Person
Julien started developing on the Atari Jaguar in 1993 at Shen Technologies SARL working on the 2D shoot-em-up Nexus that was eventually cancelled when the Saturn and the PlayStation were introduced. He joined Ubisoft Entertainment in 1994 and worked on programming for Rayman 1 (Jaguar and PlayStation), for POD (PC and M2), and became lead programmer on Tonic Trouble for the Nintendo 64. After having focused on Rayman 2 (Nintendo 64 & Dreamcast) and on the R&D for the PlayStation 2, Julien became the worldwide technical director of Ubisoft Entertainment in 1999. In this role, he played a major role in studios creation and organization, technology and production pipeline design, multi-platform strategy, as well as AAA features integration. He also took responsibility for middleware and development strategy, communication and cooperation strategy, and hardware manufacturers and middleware relations. At the end of 2005, after having worked extensively on Next Generation strategy, Julien saw the opportunity to pursue his career at Eidos. He will be serving there as worldwide CTO. Julien is fond of hardware architectures, gaming technologies and algorithms; he loves designing engine features and production pipelines.
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