Ted Tschopp's Blog

A collection of writings I have put online over the years. Some of it is really bad, and some of it I am proud of. All of it can be made better

OSR Role Playing Game Dice by Jim Wampler https://www.facebook.com/mudpuppycomics

Ted Tschopp's Role Playing Game Drafts

A collection of writings on Role Playing Games I am working on at this time. Some of it is really bad, and some of it I am proud of. All of it can be made better.

Ted Tschopp's Social Media Posts

Landing Page is just HTML and CSS with a splash of SCSS for users who demand some deeper customization options. Out of the box, just add your content and images, and your new landing page will be ready to go!

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Senior Enterprise Architect, Software at Southern California Edison

Enterprise Technology Architect responsible for SCE's IT software engineering and development strategies. Build and maintain SCE's strategy, technology road map, and platform management direction for over five hundred properties in this space using multiple architectural models.

Automate by Fotis Fotopoulos

Product Engineering and Build Process Manager at Southern California Edison

Responsible for the end-to-end management of the Product Engineering and Build processes, has governance control on all Product Engineering and Build processes, an advisor in Product Engineering and Build processes improvement activities, and provides advice to individual efforts completing the Product Engineering and Build processes on how they can improve their outcomes based on best practices from other enterprise efforts.

  • Report on end-to-end Product Engineering and Build activities.
  • Review key performance indicators and identify improvement activities for the end-to-end Product Engineering and Build processes
  • Document and maintain the Product Engineering and Build process maps.
  • Develop quality standards and governance checkpoints to ensure resources assigned to the Product Engineering and Build know what quality outcomes look
  • Review and resolve Product Engineering and Build process issues.
  • Communicate Product Engineering and Build processes changes.
  • Engage with stakeholders so services run smoothly
SCE.com by Ted Tschopp

Solution Architect for SCE.com

Technical team lead and single-point of contact for technical accountability on SCE's eCommerce channel from project concept through completion.

  • 50% cost savings on SCE’s first mobile app for iOS and Android
  • $12M savings on SCE.com rebranding project’s costs using agile methodologies focusing on expected outcomes
  • Seat on IBM’s Digital Experience Customer Advisory Council
  • 20 index point increase in user satisfaction through a mobile first strategy
  • Developed technology portion of business case for capital program - $70M
  • 40% increase in self-service transactions
  • 10 x increase in mobile page views to +40% of site traffic
  • 75% increase for turn on/off service and 75% decrease in manual order processing
  • Represented SCE’s digital and ecommerce interests on the Utility Information Technology Benchmark (UNITE) group.
Countdown to the Lord of the Rings by Ted Tschopp

Founder of The One Ring - Tolkien Online

Founded and managed the most popular website dedicated to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings.

  • Recognized in leading periodicals such as Los Angeles Times, CNN, and The Guardian UK
  • Interviewed and featured in Wired Magazine September 2001 Issue
  • Ranked as a top 10,000 website by Alexa
Password List by Ted Tschopp

The Password Challange

Check the strength of your password based on mathematical models that take into account the latest hacking techniques!

  • Includes a dictionary of the most common passwords
  • Includes a dictionary of the most common English words
  • Includes a dictionary of the most common passwords that have been hacked already
Text Generation Code by Ted Tschopp

Procedural Text Generation

An application that generates text using procedural methods.

  • A work in progress to help build an automated story telling computer
  • Over 100 tables of various objects and qualities.
  • To Do- Look into Mustache engine
Board Game Night by Geoffrey Fairchild

Twitterbot - Random Board Game Night

An application of the Procedural Text Generation system to create a new game for you to play every hour.

  • Need ideas for your board game night. Look no further. We have you covered!
  • Uses tables from the Procedural Text Generation system I am using for computerized fiction
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Random Star Constellations

An application I threw together to output a bunch of Procedurally generated star constellations.

Ted Tschopp

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Enterprise Technology Architect
⟨ Web ⟩⟨ Mobile ⟩⟨ Consumer Technology ⟩⟨ Automation ⟩

Los Angeles, California United States of America

I am the enterprise technology architect focused on digital and automation portfolios at Southern California Edison(SCE), one of the United States' largest investor-owned utilities with a service territory of over 50,000 square miles consisting of 430 cities and home to nearly 14 million people. In this role I am responsible for providing major stake holders, executives, and senior management with strategic and actionable guidance focusing on the maturity and technical issues and risks associated with Web, Mobile, Social, and Automation ecosystems. I have been at SCE for over a decade.

Before working at Edison, I owned my own business which was featured in Wired Magazine. I founded the largest community website focused on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Prior to this I worked in for a market research company focusing on the automotive industry.

I love working in technology as it provides me with the opportunity to watch the future unfold. Some of the things I have worked on were considered science-fiction when I was in school. This means I get to work on hard problems with brilliant people using complex and cool tools.