| Home Address: |
2251 S Bentley Ave, Apt 202 Los Angeles CA 90064 |
| E-mail: | gbriggs@icculus.org |
| Phone: | +1 (310) 406 7955 |
I am looking to obtain a position that utilizes my skills and background as an advanced software engineer
| Summer 2002 - Present: |
Codehost, Inc, General Engineer. Multiple positions:
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| Summer 2000 - Fall 2001: |
Lehman Brothers bank, Web technology group. General Web engineer including
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| Summer 1999: |
Irvine Ltd, Web Designer and General Technology Consultant. Three months Summer holiday work, administering Microsoft Small Business Server, general PC support, and designing and building a secure internet shopping site |
| Summer 1998: |
The Essex Shooting School, Information Technology Consultant. Holiday work that involved installation and configuration of complete computer upgrade within company |
| 1995-1998: |
Editor of award-winning school magazine "The Haileyburian". Using DTP packages such as Adobe Photoshop, Pagemaker and Microsoft Word, I managed a team of about fifteen people, edited and proofed all text going into the magazine, as well as scanned and edited most of the photos in the magazine |
| Languages: |
C/C++, Lua, Perl, PHP, PostScript, General unix scripting, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, Ada95, Scheme |
| Operating Systems: |
Linux (several distributions), Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, AIX, SCO, FreeBSD, MacOS7-9,X, Windows 3.x/9x/NT/2K/XP/Vista |
| Development Tools: |
XCode, Eclipse, Gnu Compiler Collection, CVS/SVN, Bugzilla, FogBugz, Doxygen, CMake, Code::Blocks, Valgrind |
| Toolkits: |
(GUI) wxWidgets, GTK, Qt, (Graphics) OpenGL, SDL, GLUT, aalib |
| Gaming/Other: |
Torque Game Engine(3D), Torque Game Builder(2D), Ogre3D, Bullet, ODE, Raknet, OIS |
| 1998-2002: |
Graduated from York University Computer Science, BEng with Honors. 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. |
| Other: | Full driving licenses for both the UK and California |
| Open Source Development: |
I have actively taken part in development on a number of open-source projects, including being a current maintainer of JuggleMaster (http://icculus.org/jugglemaster), IcculusFinger (http://icculus.org/IcculusFinger/), and AAHelper (http://icculus.org/aahelper/), as well as making many contributions to Loki Setup (http://icculus.org/loki_setup/) and others |
| Juggling: |
Juggling has been a major activity for me for the last fifteen years, 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. |
| Other: |
For the last four years 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, some short videos of which can be on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/user/chunkyks |