Engineer Software
Resume:
NATALIE BURGESS
Milpitas, CA **035
Senior Software Developer
** ***** ** ********** ** a software developer, looking to target positions that will allow me to continue
to develop and grow professionally as a software developer in gaming or web development. My resume is
organized to show relevant experience first, and is not in chronological order.
EDUCATION
• .B.S., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
• Real Time Embedded Systems • Effective cross-discipline communication
• C, C++, assembly language skills, written and verbal
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• Over 10 years game development Excellent documentation skills
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experience Consistently completes assignments
• 2 years Flash development on-time
experience • Team player with a positive attitude
• Completed Flex and ActionScript • Excellent student, as well as
Training from Academy X (2009) teacher, as the situation dictates
GAMING EXPERIENCE
Gizmo6 2007 - 2008
Contract Engineer
Wrote two mini-games in Flash for Disney Channel Online Games Arena Challenge. Integrates
with multi-player DXD Library. Players can choose to participate in training mode to fine-tune
their skills on their own or join a tournament to play a variety of mini-games and challenge others
in multi-player mode.
Backbone Entertainment 2006 - 2007
Contract Engineer
Wrote a Blues Clues game in Flash for young children. Currently available for downloading from
NickJr.com. Sole programmer on project.
http://arcade.nickjr.com/nick/genre.jsp?g=blues_clues&sid=8
The 3DO Company 1995 - 1997
Senior Software Engineer
Completed World Championship Racing on the M2 platform, a realistic 3D driving simulation,
running on a multi-processor, threaded environment.
• Technical Director, responsible for scheduling & task assignments to the
programming staff.
• Computer intelligence code, controlling the car's behaviors and personalities.
Atari Games Corporation 1986 - 1993
Senior Software Engineer (Entered as Associate Software Engineer)
Designed and implemented software for real-time embedded systems for use in coin-operated
video arcade games. Sole responsibility for the RAD animation tool, used by artists to create
characters and backgrounds for the games.
• Rapid prototyping software using a software state table.
• Project Leader, involving budgeting, scheduling, coordination of all departments
(animation, audio, hardware, mechanical engineering, tech pubs, graphic artists, and
marketing), as well as sole responsibility of the software and game design.
FIRMWARE EXPERIENCE
Pixim 2009
Contract Engineer
Completing Silicon Validation Testing before next generation chip set is taped out. Validating
integration of individual design blocks that have never been tested together before. Brought
team from being weeks behind schedule to meeting the current schedule by completing all
priority critical tasks. Found problems with the design, allowing the HW team to find a
workaround before release.
SanDisk Corporation 2001 - 2005
Senior Firmware Engineer
Designed and implemented firmware controlling the management of data stored on various flash
memory devices, including Compact Flash, Secure Digital, and USB Flash Drives. Code ran on
the ARC processor, a proprietary chip set, to deliver higher performance for the upcoming
product lines.
• Reliably delivered schedules, planning tools and documentation required for the next
generation firmware.
• Ran simulations for ROM code before taping out.
• Designed system used to identify ROM version at startup, using a software state table,
to avoid a very large switch statement containing every unique device type. Code was
very fast and small, and allowed old ROM code to recognize new devices created after
the ROM code was written and taped out.
Quantum Corporation/Maxtor Corporation 1997 - 2001
Senior Software Engineer
Completed Servo Track Writing Process for Fireball Plus LM drive, introducing new
technologies at the factory in Japan. Wrote embedded firmware for the SHARC ADSP-2106x
that accepted commands from the host software. Coordinated cross-team/cross-coast
contributions to the host software. Responsible for the development and maintenance of the latest
software required to verify and duplicate printed media patterns.
• New technologies that were introduced doubled the throughput at the factory, and
increased capability to meet the needs of the faster, higher track density drives of the
future.
• Trained all new servo track writer engineers that have been hired in the last year.
Cygnet Laboratories 1993 - 1995
Senior Software Engineer
Designed and implemented software customization features for a patient data management
system, running on an IBM PC. This highly customizable menu-driven system is used in Labor
and Delivery Rooms in hospitals across North America to keep data on the mother and her baby,
including the fetal heart rate and the mother's contractions, both in real-time.
• Enhanced speed and performance of code related to filling patient forms.
• Created well-written Requirement, Design and QA Documents.
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