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John Nicholson Video Game Designer ********@*****.***

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Website Designer

PC Technician

Summary

Fluent with software design, debugging, profiling, and analysis, as well as structured and OOP programming.

Flexible in and with several computer and scripting languages, compilers and IDE's.

Strong passion to design, create and play video-games with a strong lore of a myriad of gaming titles, engines and platforms.

Developer and team experience with commercial video-game titles and websites.

Designed and written several indie video-games and utility applications for the PC platform.

Building, servicing and maintaining desktop PC's and game consoles, including peripherals.

Designing and creating levels, weapon, skin, sound, scripting and interface mods for personal, team and guild base use. Such games

include: Doom, Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D, Quake, Quake II, Heretic, Hexen, Unreal, Warcraft, Starcraft, Half-Life and

various other titles.

Technical Skills

Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, Basic, Asm, Java, Python.

Other Languages: HTML, XML, CSS, SQL, LUA, PHP, Java-Script.

IDE and Compilers: Code Warrior, Borland, MSVC (5.0 - Present), DJGPP, GNU, MinGW, and DevC++.

API and SDK: Microsoft Windows API, DirectX, Boost, OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL, Allegro, FreeType, FMod, and Vorbis.

Operating Systems: Microsoft (DOS, Windows 3.0, 3.11, 95, 98, 98:SE, ME, NT, XP, Vista, 7), Ubuntu, Linux, Mac: X, Lion, Leopard.

Software: Microsoft Office, Front Page. OpenOffice, Truespace, 3DSMax, Maya, Blender, Paint Shop Pro, Animation Shop, I nno Setup,

Adobe Photoshop, milkShape 3D, SoundForge, Smacker/Granny Video, Goldwave, Audacity, plus a myriad of other titles.

Hardware: DVD/CD-ROM's, cases, thermal solutions, power supplies, hard-drives (including partitioning), video cards, sound cards, cpu's,

motherboards, ram, speakers, headsets, music players, monitors, keyboards, mice, game controllers, cameras, flash-drives, printers,

scanners, tablets, network cards and routers.

Personal Skills

Strong customer service, quality assurance, science and technical skills.

Team player, enthusiastic, highly organized, self motivated and good communicator with a sense of humor.

Great typing skills, can type 80-100+ words per minute.

Interests

Reading, writing, drawing, art, photography, music, astronomy, cosmology, engineering, and cybernetics.

Designing and playing video games; preferably in one or combined genres of: Puzzle, RPG, Tactical, Stealth, Action, Adventure.

Experience

2006 Present, Independence, MO

Freelance C/C++ Programmer / Website Designer / PC Technician

Application and utility design, programming, analysis, profiling and quality assurance.

Designing and maintaining personal and commercial websites.

Consultation, installation, repair and maintaining of peripherals, hardware, software, wireless networks and operating systems.

2003-2006. Ethereal Evolution, Inc. Fort Myers, FL

C++ Programmer / Co-Developer

Independent MMO PC/MAC game Universe Unlimited

Mainly responsible for sound and input programming.

Assisted with design, file formats, as well as graphics and script programming.

2002-2004. Biztech Computer Systems, Fort Myers, FL.

Website Developer

Designed and maintained commercial and personal websites for third-party clients.

2001-2003. Stone Water Games, LLC, Boulder, Colorado.

Content Provider / Scripter / Beta Tester

Beta tested and provided other in-game content scripting quests, monsters, interactive items, as well as building towns, etc, for two

separate untitled PC MMO games for use by 50+ people including employees and other beta testers.

Education

CISCO Certifications in C and C++ Programming & Development.

W3S Certifications in HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL.

State of Missouri: GED.

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