Professional Experience

TiVo, Inc. - January 2011 - Ongoing
UI Software Engineering Contractor

Developed user interface features for the TiVo Premiere DVR family, a consumer set-top box platform with constrained memory and CPU resources
Areas of responsibility include UI for scheduling recordings, searching for content, and displaying detailed preview information for content as user scrolls through lists
Developed utilities to improve developer efficiency, including templated code generation utilities and a utility to inspect the UI scene graph at runtime, dramatically simplifying diagnosis of UI layout issues

TicBits Ltd. - October 2010 - December 2010, October 2011 - December 2011
Contractor

Developed custom iPhone Sudoku application (2010), and later ported to iPad (2011)
Developed puzzle generation software to generate puzzles of various difficulty levels
~8,000 lines of Objective-C

Corsair EDA, Inc. - January 2010 - October 2010
Contractor

Developed custom web application for managing lottery tickets for individuals and lottery pools, including aggregating winning number feeds and notifying users of their winnings
~16,000 lines of Python

Skytrex Systems, LLC - August 2009 - July 2010
Contractor

Contributed to development of flight planning iPhone application for general aviation pilots
Implemented feature to fetch, parse, and display temporary flight restriction zones defined by the FAA, involving boolean operations on arbitrary 2D shapes (Objective-C / iPhone)
Implemented tool to define boundaries and projection basis information for chart images (C# / PC)

Vicious Cycle Software, Inc. - Summer 2007, 2008, 2009
Junior Engine/Tools Programmer

Wrote photon mapping system for real-time global illumination prototype
Implemented mesh level-of-detail system for Vicious Engine 2
Implemented 3D modeler-style transform widgets in Vicious Editor
Added polish features (e.g. undo, multiple selection) to shader graph editor
Wrote faster UV unwrapping system for map geometry
Implemented state transition system for destructible physics objects
Implemented asset reporting system to track down wasteful models, textures, shaders and sounds

Personal Projects

Platformer (Untitled)

XNA sidescroller game
Runs on PC or Xbox 360
WinForms editor with tile & entity editing, full undo/redo, automatic image reloading
~25,000 lines of C#

Fallen Elements II

SHilScript

North Carolina State University - December 2009

B.S., Computer Engineering & B.S., Electrical Engineering
Major GPA: 4.0/4.0; Overall GPA 3.45/4.0
Graduated Cum Laude; Dean's List (Perfect 4.0) Spring 2007 - Fall 2009
Senior project: Wireless digital water flow controller using 802.15.4 and variable-speed Pentair pool pump

Languages: C/C++, Python, C#, Cg/HLSL, Objective-C, ActionScript 3
Technologies: STL, Direct3D, OpenGL, Win32 API, networking (sockets), .NET, XNA, Python C API, Newton physics, OGRE, OpenAL, wxWidgets, Django, UIKit
Tools: Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Subversion, git, 3D Studio MAX, Photoshop, SWIG, Yacc/Bison, ANTLR
Platforms: Windows, Linux, Xbox 360, iOS