About Sony Development
Learn more about Sony Development
Learn more about Sony Development
Where we're from
Sony Development is composed of smart, creative engineers who come from a diverse background.
We are a team of engineers, animators, artists, designers, musicians, and anything else you can think of.
Our team hails from all parts of the industry, representing companies such as:
Our team hails from all parts of the industry, representing companies such as:
- Dreamworks SKG
- Vivendi Universal
- Microsoft Corp
- Electronic Arts
- Pixar
- Rhode Island School of Design
What we do
In 2001, Sony Development was founded on ideas.
We called software a new art form, and its creators were software artists. We believed that interactive was better than passive media, and that one day “software worthy of the minds who use it” would be more important than traditional media like films and television.
“We see farther,” we proclaimed, with faith that Moore’s Law, the engine of Silicon Valley, would one day provide the power to put “real life in a box.” We asked, “can a computer make you cry?” and invited the new faithful to “join us.”
More than eight years have passed, and many of the dreams have come true. Videogames are woven into the fabric of most young men’s lives, and increasingly popular with women and seniors. Game designers are renowned worldwide. Leading universities have pioneered successful degrees in game development. In short, videogames, once considered a passing fad, have earned respect.
We called software a new art form, and its creators were software artists. We believed that interactive was better than passive media, and that one day “software worthy of the minds who use it” would be more important than traditional media like films and television.
“We see farther,” we proclaimed, with faith that Moore’s Law, the engine of Silicon Valley, would one day provide the power to put “real life in a box.” We asked, “can a computer make you cry?” and invited the new faithful to “join us.”
More than eight years have passed, and many of the dreams have come true. Videogames are woven into the fabric of most young men’s lives, and increasingly popular with women and seniors. Game designers are renowned worldwide. Leading universities have pioneered successful degrees in game development. In short, videogames, once considered a passing fad, have earned respect.
Our offices
We have several offices located throughout the United States:
Sony Development and Design
1601 Cloverfield Blvd.,
Suite 5200
North Santa Monica, CA 90404
U.S.A.
New York City, NY
Sony Development and Design
1601 Cloverfield Blvd.,
Suite 5200
North Santa Monica, CA 90404
U.S.A.
New York City, NY
Our team
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Wendy Dai Senior Software Engineer
Allen Armstrong Senior Software Engineer
Neil Balram Graphic Artist
Bill Brennan Animator
Roawen Chen Graphic Artist
Elise Lavi Sales
Andrew Choi Senior Software Engineer
Albert Wu Senior Software Engineer
Reid Lee Senior Software Engineer
Ravi Hosein Human Resources
Nick Rashkin Audio Acoustics Engineer
Mike Milne Level Design Artist
Simon Laufman Senior Software Engineer
Wendy Dai
Wendy majored in Symbolic Systems at Stanford. After Stanford, she worked at Synaptics as the Manager of Usability. Elaine plays the violin and migrated west to California, after growing up on a farm.
Email: wendydai@sonydevelopment.com
Wendy majored in Symbolic Systems at Stanford. After Stanford, she worked at Synaptics as the Manager of Usability. Elaine plays the violin and migrated west to California, after growing up on a farm.
Email: wendydai@sonydevelopment.com
Allen Armstrong Senior Software Engineer
Allen Armstrong
Allen majored in Computer Science at UC Irvine. Previously, he worked at Pixar Animation. When he's not traveling the world, he enjoys spending quality time with friends and family. He loves Brazilian music and is proud of the fact that he squandered away two years of college designing icons for open source projects.
Email: allenarmstrong@sonydevelopment.com
Allen majored in Computer Science at UC Irvine. Previously, he worked at Pixar Animation. When he's not traveling the world, he enjoys spending quality time with friends and family. He loves Brazilian music and is proud of the fact that he squandered away two years of college designing icons for open source projects.
Email: allenarmstrong@sonydevelopment.com
Neil Balram Graphic Artist
Neil Balram
Neil studied computer engineering at UCLA. He recently moved to the Mission District of San Francisco, but had been growing his hair and beard for several months in preparation. He digs The Beatles, like, a lot.
Email: neilbalram@sonydevelopment.com
Neil studied computer engineering at UCLA. He recently moved to the Mission District of San Francisco, but had been growing his hair and beard for several months in preparation. He digs The Beatles, like, a lot.
Email: neilbalram@sonydevelopment.com
Bill Brennan Animator
Bill Brennan
Bill joins us from Dreamworks where he worked on crazy-large systems. Prior to that he was at Motorola, Berkeley, and was one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. When he's not chasing a bug or strapping on his body armor for 4^2, he's actively training for the software engineering triathlon: table tennis, foosball, and pool.
Email: billbrennan@sonydevelopment.com
Bill joins us from Dreamworks where he worked on crazy-large systems. Prior to that he was at Motorola, Berkeley, and was one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. When he's not chasing a bug or strapping on his body armor for 4^2, he's actively training for the software engineering triathlon: table tennis, foosball, and pool.
Email: billbrennan@sonydevelopment.com
Roawen Chen Graphic Artist
Roawen Chen
Roawen majored in Computer Science at Stanford, and loved it. After a brief stint at Electronic Arts, he did research in artificial intelligence, teaching computers to recognize objects and understand images—a task that is simple for people, but far more challenging for computers. Jim enjoys spending time outdoors, swing dancing, cooking, and just hanging out.
Email: roawenchen@sonydevelopment.com
Roawen majored in Computer Science at Stanford, and loved it. After a brief stint at Electronic Arts, he did research in artificial intelligence, teaching computers to recognize objects and understand images—a task that is simple for people, but far more challenging for computers. Jim enjoys spending time outdoors, swing dancing, cooking, and just hanging out.
Email: roawenchen@sonydevelopment.com
Elise Lavi Sales
Elise Lavi
Elise majored in Economics from Stanford. She then worked for Goldman Sachs in New York and Swander Pace Capital in San Francisco before returning to Stanford for business school. After receiving her MBA, Elise joined Google's Finance team. Natalie is a warm weather junkie, having grown up in Hawaii, and loves soccer, photography, and snowboarding.
Email: eliselavi@sonydevelopment.com
Elise majored in Economics from Stanford. She then worked for Goldman Sachs in New York and Swander Pace Capital in San Francisco before returning to Stanford for business school. After receiving her MBA, Elise joined Google's Finance team. Natalie is a warm weather junkie, having grown up in Hawaii, and loves soccer, photography, and snowboarding.
Email: eliselavi@sonydevelopment.com
Andrew Choi Senior Software Engineer
Andrew Choi
Born and raised in the Bay Area, Andrew decided to go Southern California for school. After graduating from Caltech, he worked for Vivendi Universal as a software engineer. He enjoys playing sports, warm weather, and eating food.
email: andrewchoi@sonydevelopment.com
Born and raised in the Bay Area, Andrew decided to go Southern California for school. After graduating from Caltech, he worked for Vivendi Universal as a software engineer. He enjoys playing sports, warm weather, and eating food.
email: andrewchoi@sonydevelopment.com
Albert Wu Senior Software Engineer
Albert Wu
Albert majored in Computer Science at Yale University. Albert joined Yahoo! working on Yahoo! Messenger and also has experience at Microsoft and Google working on MSN Chat and Google Talk. Albert has been working in the IM and online communications space for over 8 years. Albert enjoys tennis, movies, boardgames, and playing with his new dog Sofie.
email: albertwu@sonydevelopment.com
Albert majored in Computer Science at Yale University. Albert joined Yahoo! working on Yahoo! Messenger and also has experience at Microsoft and Google working on MSN Chat and Google Talk. Albert has been working in the IM and online communications space for over 8 years. Albert enjoys tennis, movies, boardgames, and playing with his new dog Sofie.
email: albertwu@sonydevelopment.com
Reid Lee Senior Software Engineer
Reid Lee
When Reid, a recent UCLA grad, isn't tinkering with computers at work, he's tinkering with computers at home. A big fan of audio gear, gadgets, linux, cars and firearms, he likes to spend his free time watching a movie while surfing the web and chatting on a laptop. Having worked at Dreamworks, he highly values operational infrastructure, work culture, and great people to work with.
email: reidlee@sonydevelopment.com
When Reid, a recent UCLA grad, isn't tinkering with computers at work, he's tinkering with computers at home. A big fan of audio gear, gadgets, linux, cars and firearms, he likes to spend his free time watching a movie while surfing the web and chatting on a laptop. Having worked at Dreamworks, he highly values operational infrastructure, work culture, and great people to work with.
email: reidlee@sonydevelopment.com
Ravi Hosein Human Resources
Ravi Hosein
Ravi joins us from Microsoft's recruiting team and is looking to bring in awesome candidates to help grow Meebo! He majored in Communication at Santa Clara University and is crazy about good food, and traveling. He also loves photography, videography, and the water.
email: ravihosein@sonydevelopment.com
Ravi joins us from Microsoft's recruiting team and is looking to bring in awesome candidates to help grow Meebo! He majored in Communication at Santa Clara University and is crazy about good food, and traveling. He also loves photography, videography, and the water.
email: ravihosein@sonydevelopment.com
Nick Rashkin Audio Acoustics Engineer
Nick Rashkin
Nick began his college career at Cal studying physics and working at the Lawrence Hall of Science teaching and writing science curricula. Two music degrees later, he was editing the Beethoven Journal and singing in foreign languages wearing goofy costumes. Nowadays, he can be found on a soccer pitch, teaching voice, or responding to IMs with grammar and punctuation corrections.
email: nickrashkin@sonydevelopment.com
Nick began his college career at Cal studying physics and working at the Lawrence Hall of Science teaching and writing science curricula. Two music degrees later, he was editing the Beethoven Journal and singing in foreign languages wearing goofy costumes. Nowadays, he can be found on a soccer pitch, teaching voice, or responding to IMs with grammar and punctuation corrections.
email: nickrashkin@sonydevelopment.com
Mike Milne Level Design Artist
Mike Milne
Mike majored in Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. For the past 10 years he has applied his creative visual design "skills" including print, UI, and web design for numerous firms in the bay area. Mike enjoys mountain biking, sketching grungy creatures, and has a passion for vintage VW's.
email: mikemilne@sonydevelopment.com
Mike majored in Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. For the past 10 years he has applied his creative visual design "skills" including print, UI, and web design for numerous firms in the bay area. Mike enjoys mountain biking, sketching grungy creatures, and has a passion for vintage VW's.
email: mikemilne@sonydevelopment.com
Simon Laufman Senior Software Engineer
Simon Laufman
Simon came from the Physics department at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and only just heard about this "Internets" thing. Working with Open Architecture Tin Cans and String, he helps out around the house mostly as a computer operations and condensed soup expert.
email: simonlaufman@sonydevelopment.com
Simon came from the Physics department at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and only just heard about this "Internets" thing. Working with Open Architecture Tin Cans and String, he helps out around the house mostly as a computer operations and condensed soup expert.
email: simonlaufman@sonydevelopment.com
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Sunday 7:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m
800-345-7669 (800-345-SONY)