BIO

Born on Aug. 17, 1981, Stoker grew up in Houston with his older brother. Their father, Ron E. Stoker, owns an acoustical contracting business in the Houston area. Their mother, Maria Isabel, has an interior design firm. Stoker attended public high school. There, he discovered his interest in computers and began programming computers at age 14.

In 1999, Stoker landed a job developing basic web applications for an emerging ISP called Infohighway International, where he gained real world programming experience working on a variety of projects. As the company's brightness started to fade he took a new job as a programmer with an upcoming dot com startup called Live Technologies. After merging with Enerva Technologies, Stoker was promoted to Product Development Manager where he was given responsibility for the complete product lifecycle. Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001 Enerva Technologies filed chapter 11. At the age of 21 he and recently unemployed Envera COO, Sales Manager, Lead Designer, and Lead Programmer started Kameleon Software, Inc.

While at Kameleon Software, Inc. he headed up consulting for clients such as The City of Houston (GHCVB), Baylor College of Medicine, and ABS-Insurance, as well as creating several packaged products. During this time Stoker was given an offer he couldn't refuse at Allied Home Mortgage. He took on the massive software project and it currently processes 12.5 billion mortgage dollars a year. Even though he was hired on full time during the coarse of the project, once the project was over he was looking for a new challenge.

He decided to follow his dream of making video games and get his Computer Science degree at the same time. Brian finished studying advanced game design techniques in Orlando, Fl at Full Sail. Full Sail's game design degree is one of the most prestigious game related degrees being offered anywhere.

Stoker worked at Big Huge Games on Age of Empires 3: Asian Dynasties, in Timonium Maryland. He is now working on Silent Hill: Homecoming at Collective Studios, in Newport Beach, CA.