Siobhan is a 30-year veteran of the board game and computer game industries. Her career began at Steve Jackson Games as editor of the line. Moving to computer games, she joined legendary publisher Origin Systems, directing the award-winning . After working as game developer and technology evangelist at The 3DO Company, Siobhan co-founded Illusion Machines Incorporated, an independent game studio in Austin, Texas, that developed games and applications for Microsoft, Virgin Interactive, MSN, and MicroProse. Siobhan returned to Origin/Electronic Arts in 2000 as Director of Online Technology. Joining Microsoft as a Lead Developer for server development, security, and billing systems, she later became a Lead Program Manager, creating a peer-to-peer gaming platform for MSN Instant Messenger and leading development for the prototyping team that launched the Xbox Kinect project. Later, she joined The Amazing Society/Gazillion as Lead Server Engineer for the Marvel Super Hero Squad massively-multiplayer online game. Siobhan is now Principal Engineer for Educational Technology at , guiding the development of administrative tools and educational resources across the campus. She also serves as Senior Lecturer, teaching networking, computer security, concurrent programming, and software engineering.
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