Summary
Jeff Macfee is a seasoned IT leader with over 25 years of experience applying technology to business, and is currently the VP of IT at Gearbox Entertainment. He guides IT strategy and operations across multiple locations, balancing on-prem and cloud hosting, security policy implementation, budgeting, and executive collaboration to ensure IT services align with studio objectives. During his tenure at Gearbox, he built and led a diverse team delivering a robust enterprise environment with source control, CI/CD, and issue tracking, and steered the studio toward Agile Scrum, improved monitoring, disaster recovery, and MFA-enabled security, including deploying a major AWS-based game service. His prior leadership roles span JCPenney, Tektronix, Cambridge University Press, the University of Texas at Austin, and Texas Instruments, where he managed network engineering, server systems, budgets, and large-scale infrastructure projects. A UT Austin MIS graduate based in Frisco, Texas, he combines hands-on systems expertise with strategic IT governance to deliver reliable, secure technology ecosystems in creative and enterprise environments.
17 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas