Who is Leslie?

With an emphasis on interactive and immersive graphic entertainment and cutting-edge technologies in real-world solutions, Leslie will collaboratively help to bring your product vision to life, including up-front design and system architecture to every phase of development, integration and deployment.

Games and Entertainment

Leslie's years of experience with entertainment and gaming giants such as Electronic Arts, Disney and Sony give him the deep background in tools, technologies and creation of complete immersive experiences for your needs, for any computing or media platform.

Graphics and Production Tools

Game engine technologies, graphics R&D, procedural content generation, content management systems, animation production tools, platform optimization and more, Leslie can improve not only the visual and performance qualities of your products, but also the quality of life for your production team.

Social Networking and Shared Experiences

Leslie knows how to use innovative technologies to bring people together in exciting new ways. With patents in multi-platform content rendering, social content management systems, online content sharing and social user platforms, Leslie can help you to build a new generation of immersive shared worlds for your users to experience together.

Artificial Intelligence and NLP

With several patents in AI and Natural Language Processing, Leslie has spent the past several years developing commercial tools platforms and technologies that deliver conversational speech experiences for a variety of applications and businesses. Leslie can work with you to bring exciting, human-like interactions to your users.

Content Management Systems

Production-ready tools for developers and content creators are just as important for real-world product development as the underlying technologies. Leslie's career has been built upon the happy marriage of powerful, easy-to-use content and production tools and the cutting-edge systems that rely on their data.

Examples of Leslie's Work

Here are a few video demonstrations of design and development across different application domains.


Complete Game Development

All development work including design, art, programming and procedural technologies by Leslie Spring.

Social Networking

Complete application for voice and avatar-based social networking and virtual events by Leslie Spring.

Artificial Intelligence, NLP and Voice

Created using Leslie's platform for AI, including core technologies, content management and integrated developer tools.

Content Development Tools and Technology

A demonstration of an integrated custom content creation toolset using voice, natural language and AI in Unity.

Career Highlights

Employment

  • Electronic Arts
  • Disney Interactive
  • Sony Pictures

Consulting

  • Trimark Interactive
  • Warner Entertainment
  • Northrop Grumman

Lecturing and Training

  • ACM - AI and Machine Learning
  • USC - Game Design Program
  • USC - Applied Psychology and Engineering Program
  • Speech Technology Conference
  • TechCrunch