President

Philip Chu is the owner and operator of Technicat, LLC in Huntington Beach, CA, providing software consulting and developing services, and developing games under the Fugu Games label.

His career has spanned corporate research and development, defense and government projects, computer graphics, video games, and dot-com startups (see worthless stock certificate).

Phil's education includes bachelors and masters degrees in computer science and engineering from MIT and Johns Hopkins University, respectively.

Phil enjoys writing and, in addition to tech briefs for a Boston press relations firm, a white paper published by the Nintendo Software Development Group, and the software essays on this site, has contributed one line to a published video game and written voiceover dialogue for three levels of a cancelled game. He has belatedly started blogging.

The accompanying portrait of Oliver Wendell Jones was kindly provided and autographed by Berkeley Breathed at Iowa City West High School, where Phil discovered the Apple II and learned to program in study hall.

CTO

Cappuccino, the first Chief Technicat Officer, was discovered at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Cappuccino now rests at the Sea Breeze Pet Cemetery.

Jiggs, the current Chief Technicat Officer, was recruited from the Seal Beach Animal Care Center and vacations at the Westminster Veterinary Group.

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Advisors, Colleagues, Contributors, Partners and Old Friends

Kenneth Chin is a veteran of the New England high-tech industry with bachelors and masters degree in electrical engineering from MIT.

Jon Kranc has developed 3D content creation tools for Nichimen Graphics and multiple game titles for Activision and Hyper Entertainment.

Larry Smith is an expert in 3D graphics, motion capture and game development with an MBA from the UCLA Andersen School of Business.

Tiger Advisors advises top industry executives on resource management and planning.

James Wong and Emil Chang have provided legal expertise.

Eric Chu of Bike Mecca has provided web development and design advice.

Shane Nakamura Designs created the Technicat and Fugu Games logos.

ElektraShock provides 3D content for games and film.

T. Hite Audio Productions produces sound effects and scores for games and film.

Troy Wirth provides financial management advice to small business owners.

Digimana develops mobile games.

Aaron Pulkka is a game industry executive with experience in console and PC titles, location-based entertainment and online games.