Gary Briggs

RAND Corporation, Programmer Analyst III

• Development position supporting many projects and researchers on an ad-hoc basis
• Modelling and simulation using C++
• Web development with PHP, Perl
• Linux system administration

Chickenware, Senior Games Architect and Developer

• Lead Programmer and designer on fully networked multiplayer game
• Use many libraries: Bullet [physics], Ogre3d [graphics], RakNet [networking], Lua [scripting], OpenAL [sound]
• Fully cross-platform, works on Linux, OSX, Windows
• Extensive documentation authoring, including complete Doxygen source comments and PDF guides

Codehost, Inc, General Engineer. Multiple positions:

• Software Engineer [C and C++] for server, desktop and limited-hardware work
• Database and Server administration. Maintaining a variety of servers including SCM repositories, file and mail servers [Samba, NFS/NIS, Postfix, Amavis], MySQL and Apache
• Printer driver development [for mostly PostScript devices] and associated tool development
• Web development [PHP and Perl with MySQL, developing an entire licensing system]
• Project Management including specification writing and managing external teams
• Documentation authoring
• QA

Lehman Brothers bank, Web technology group. General Web engineer including

• Testing and expanding open source search engine technologies
• Server administration [Solaris, Linux, Apache, Netscape web server]
• Initiating work on a test lab for checking the functionality of web applications under a variety of browser and OS combinations

C/C++, Lua, Perl, PHP, PostScript, General unix scripting, SQL, HTML

Linux (including RHEL, Ubuntu, Fedora), Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, AIX, SCO, FreeBSD, MacOS7-9,X, Windows

XCode, Eclipse, NetBeans, Gnu Compiler Collection, CVS/SVN, Bugzilla, FogBugz, Doxygen, CMake, Code::Blocks, Valgrind

(GUI) wxWidgets, FLTK, GTK, Qt, (Graphics) OpenGL, SDL, GLUT, aalib

SQLite, GPSD, DBus, Torque Game Engine(3D), Torque Game Builder(2D), Ogre3D, Bullet, ODE, Raknet, OIS, Google Earth

Graduated from York University: Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

Final Year: Substantial project involving Real-Time Linux scheduling, Cryptography and Communication Theory, Bayesian Networks, Engineering Project Management, Management and Information Systems, Real-Time Systems and Networks and Distributed Systems.

Second Year: Information Systems Design, System Specification and Design, Operating Systems, Implementation of Programming Languages, User Interface Design, Computer Graphics and Visualisation, Theory of Computation, and Declarative Programming

First Year: Principles of Programming, Algorithms and Data Structures, Introduction to Digital Design, Digital and Linear Circuit Design, Introduction to Computer Maths, Maths in Computer Science, Introduction to Computer Systems, and Computer Architecture. Project modelling molecular motion in gases.

I have actively taken part in development on a number of open-source projects, including being the current maintainer of OBDGPSLogger (http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger), JuggleMaster (http://icculus.org/jugglemaster), and AAHelper (http://icculus.org/aahelper/), as well as making many contributions to IcculusFinger (http://icculus.org/IcculusFinger/), Loki Setup (http://icculus.org/loki_setup/) and others

Juggling has been a major activity for me since I was fairly young, where I have learned to juggle six balls, ride a unicycle, and various other associated skills. I have, a number of times, entertained groups of a variety of ages and sizes, ranging from charity work with children in both the UK and the US, to paid work for students and adults in several cities in the UK.

Since early 2004 I have been volunteering with a dog rescue group, an activity that has included putting several dogs through obedience training. In my spare time, I work on small game development projects and consider learning new technologies to be something of a hobby.