About Marty

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Marty is founder of SocialSage, a team of veterans and innovators from Sony, Disney, EA, DARPA, Lucas Arts and an array of startups that aims to extend and redefine social media and virtual worlds.

Marty leverages over 20 years of innovation, management and engineering experience including architecting online social platforms for market leaders such as Disney, Sony and leading edge startups as well as previous experience in control systems. Marty comes most recently as Director of Online for Disney’s Interactive Studios and previously a member of Sony’s SCE-RT online technology platform group supporting the PS2/PS3 and PSP.

In 1999 Marty was drawn in by games and community at the startup Playnet, eventually taking the role of Chief of Technology Development while creating Playnet’s shardless distributed virtual world technology for the virtual battlefield simulation/game World War II Online.

Background

An aspiring aerospace engineer, Marty started college at age 16 during the introduction of the IBM PC and BITNET. This resulted in an addiction to computer programming and late night forays into BITNET, online chat, MUD’s and creating his own game on the Vic 20.

After a tour in the Air Force, Marty focused on engineering robust fault tolerant systems in the roles of lead engineer, Director of R&D, consultant and eventually his own company. He developed lines of control systems including portable gas chromatograph and a joystick driving system for the disabled.

Professional Interests

Marty maintains interests in social networks, distributed trust/reputation networks, data/event driven architectures, AntiCheat/Security (published article in MMP Game Dev2) as well as agile development practices. He has also chaired, coordinated and participated in a number committees including the IGDA’s Artificial Intelligence Interface Standards Committee (ASIIC).

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