Tronster Hartley
President, Geek House Games
Senior Programmer, Firaxis Games

Tronster has worked in various business sectors as a Software Architect, the past decade, with the games industry being his primary focus since 2006. A graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University with a BA in Computer Science, Tronster has a few titles under his belt while working at Breakaway Games and by his own Flash games company Geek House Games. Tronster was one of the four founding members of the Baltimore IGDA and currently serving his second year on the board as the chapter's chair. Despite his busy schedule, he still finds time to teach 2 nights a week for UMBC's Interactive Art class. A gamer to the core and Tron fanatic, Tronster's off-time is usually occupied with learning new programming techniques and technologies, playing Ultimate Frisbee, and writing house techno tracks.