Rafael is an experienced programmer and software development manager. In July 2000 Rafael founded Helixe game development studio at THQ. Rafael managed the studio until November 2003, expanding it to three development teams, and developing 9 games for THQ:

  • Scooby Doo: The Movie
  • Star Wars New Droid Army
  • Jimmy Neutron: Jet Fusion
  • Tak and the Power of Juju
  • Fairly Odd Parents: Breakin' da Rules
  • Rocket Power: Dream Scheme
  • Rocket Power: Beach Bandits
  • Wild Thornberrys: Chimp Chase
  • Sinistar Unleashed
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    In December of 2004 Rafael founded a new game development studio, Oroboro Interactive which in January 2005 completed its first title.

  • Rayman Hoodlums' Revenge
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    He is currently developing KJam an advanced software build system, and consulting as Lead Programmer for an unannounced game at Harmonix Music, a division of MTV.

    Prior to entering the computer games industry Rafael worked on one of the first commercial speech recognition systems for Kurzweil AI and he is an inventor on several patents which resulted from this work. In 1995 Rafael wrote software to assemble the earliest high resolution map of the human genome while at the WhiteHead Institute/MIT Human Genome Center. Results of this research were published in Science.