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Game Experience Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, Gearbox Software January 2007 – March 2007 Software Engineer (Internship) Worked with both native code and script in Unreal Engine 3 Designed and added three new visual components and three textual components to a real-time AI debug system Implemented two custom place-able level design objects   Haunted, The Guildhall at SMU April 2007 – September 2007 Software Engineer Half Life 2 Single player project, 14 person team (4 programmers) Created a 3rd person camera system with environmental collision Extended the animation system to create and integrate four new animations Integrated four art assets   Heroes vs. Villains,  The Guildhall at SMU July 2006 – September 2007 Software Engineer Unreal Tournament 2004 team project Created two weapons with new art and functionality Designed and built a unique rune gameplay system and three rune powers Implemented two player triggerable superpowers Worked closely with artists and helped integrate and place tens of custom assets   Kazaguruma,  The Guildhall at SMU January 2006 – March 2006 Sole Programmer Wrote a Win32 based puzzle game Designed and implemented a unique gameplay mechanics with varied difficulty settings Created Four levels with score tracking from game to game Built a 2D level editor

Individual Projects Shadow Map System (Master's Project)   Implemented shadow maps, Trapezoidal Shadow Maps, and Variance Shadow Maps A variety of real-time modifiable values including shadow map size and light attenuation A hardware query system to cull out scene geometry that does not contribute to the scene Supports both spot and point lights   Multi-threaded D3D Renderer   Supports asynchronous loading of assets Producer/consumer architecture with non-blocking FIFO Dynamic texture updates using frame local storage Multi-threaded Profiler   Portable system with the ability to be plugged in to different programs Written in C# using XNA and supports both single and multithreaded environments Supports two different visualizations of profile results for easy data analysis Dual OpenGL and D3D Renderer   Implemented HLSL and assembly shader support Skeletal skinned animation system using quaternions Chunked LOD terrain system with correct stitching Created normal map shaders in both HLSL and assembly Implemented real-time A* path finding with visual debugging Physically accurate water simulation using Verlet Integration 3DS MAX 8.0 exporter with custom file format that supports both static and animated meshes   Rampart 3D   Implemented using Ageia PhysX SDK Physics based fort destruction game   Scripting Language   Created script language with syntax similar to Unreal Script Support for multiple types including strings and vector containers Implemented lexical analyzer, parser, and virtual machine

Education The Guildhall at SMU Plano, TX January 2006 - Septebmer 2007 Masters of Interactive Technology: Software Development Cumulative GPA: 3.911 Duke University Durham, NC September 2001 - September 2005 Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science Bachelor of Arts in Japanese Cumulative GPA: 3.3   Kyushu University Fukuoka, Japan Summer 2004 Courses of Study Japanese Language Economics and Culture

Skills Languages, APIs, libraries, Tools, and Engines Languages: C++, Java, HTML, HLSL, x86 Assembly APIs: DirectX 9, OpenGL, FMOD, Ageia PhysX Engines: Half-Life 2, Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Engine 3 Applications: Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Office 2003, 3D Studio Max 8.0, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Perforce, Tortoise SVN OS: Mac OS X, Windows 95/2000/XP/Vista Spoken Languages: Proficient in Japanese

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