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Brian
Upton is a senior game designer
for the PlayStation Division of Sony Corporation.
As a National Merit
Scholar, following graduation from Hale, he received a scholarship to Rice
University at Houston. At Rice, he majored in English and computer
engineering. He then moved on to the University of North Carolina,
where he earned a master's degree in computer technology.
He soon joined Virtus
Corporation, headquartered in Raleigh, NC, which developed computer games
and which was primarily owned by Tom Clancy, the celebrated novelist.
As engineering director at Virtus, Brian developed a highly successful
game called SSN. The market popularity of this game prompted
Clancy to form his own computer game company, Red Storm Entertainment, and
install Brian as the firm's senior designer. During his career at
Red Storm, Brian presided over the development of such popular computer
games as Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, and Rogue's Spear.
Brian's wife, Elizabeth,
a native New Yorker whom he had met at the UNC, received her doctorate in
music, and in 2002 was offered a professorship at the UCLA. This
prompted Brian to make his availability known to California-based
electronic game companies, and he was soon hired as senior designer by
Sony, headquartered in Santa Monica.
The first Sony
PlayStation game, developed by Brian from it's inception, is scheduled to
be introduced in the US market in the Spring of 2005.
Brian and Elizabeth have
a home in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, near UCLA. They are
the parents of two en, Sam, age 11, and Rose, age 4. Brian's
three older sisters - Pam, Barbara and Marti - are also Hale graduates. |