Consulting & Training Services Larry Mellon is available for consulting services and training support for companies interested in scalable virtual world architectures or increasing their iteration rates via automated testing and metrics-driven development. He has published extensively in this field, and provided ground-breaking solutions for the EA games "The Sims Online" and "The Sims 2.0". For further information, please contact Larry at larry@maggotranch.com Bio Synopsis: Larry Mellon is a consultant, author and speaker on accelerating game production via automated testing and metrics-driven development. Larry joined the game industry over eight years ago, bringing a diverse background in parallel simulation and distributed systems to bear on the development challenges of EA's The Sims Online and The Sims 2.0. Larry then teamed up to help form Emergent Game Technologies: a flexible game development platform grown to worldwide, cross-genre deployment. Before joining the game industry, Larry was a lead architect in DARPA's Advanced Distributed Simulation and Synthetic Theatre of War programs, and a key contributor to the High Level Architecture and RTI 2.0, the standards for integrating all military simulations. A graduate of the University of Calgary, Canada and Project Jade's distributed and parallel computing work in the eighties and nineties, Larry now lives in the San Francisco Bay area. Larry Mellon's resume