Philip Taylor:
CLASS OF 1977

Meridian High SchoolClass of 1977
Meridian, MS
University of Maryland - Physical SciencesClass of 1984
College park, MD
Philip's Story
Philip was born in Pensacola, Florida and moved a lot as part of a military family. Philip graduated 2nd in class from Meridian High School in 1977. Escaping the beach of South Florida in 1983, Philip graduated from University of Maryland, College Park (Math/Computer Science, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering) in 1984.
After 7 years in the DC technology community in both the black (US and Foreign Military projects ) and public worlds, Philip migrated to the PC and moved to the Left Coast in 1990. After 5 years in Silicon Valley, Philip moved north to Oregon to be part of Sierra games and shipped 3 games in 15 months.
In 1996 Philip moved north again to the "Soviet of Washington"* and Seattle to join Microsoft and work on DirectX with the PC gaming community, and later on Flight Simulator the longest-lived PC gaming franchise.
Philip worked at Intel from 2008-2020 mostly with the game ISV community. While at Intel Philip moonlighted in mobile games, was part owner of a mobile g...Expand for more
ame studio, Simple Games, and shipped an iPhone game in 2011, Simple Socks. In 2020 Philip joined Google inAndroid games and helps game companies be successful on Android.
He lives in the Seattle area with his son Matthew who was born in 2004.
Computer animation, the computer Demo Scene, and 3D graphics movies like anything from Pixar are up there on Philip's list, but he still loves old school animation like Looney Tunes ( Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century anyone? ) and the old Disney classics, Exploring them with Matthew has been an amazing experience.
Books Philip likes include The Essential Bartender's Guide and The Essential Guide to Single Malt Scotch, The Long Run by Daniel Keys Moran, Illiad and Olympos by Dan Simmons, When the Sky Fell: In search of Atlantis by Rand Flem-Ath, The World of Tiers by Philip Jose Farmer, anything by JRR Tolkien, and much much more.
*reference to James Farley, Postmaster under FDR, and his famous statement in 1936. Hey, we did vote for I-502.
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