SUMMARY
• Strong C/C++ programming experience
• Strong cross platform experience
• Strong familiarity with numerous graphics/animation file formats and their SDK/APIs
• Strong scripting experience (Python/Perl)
• Experience with localization issues and strategies
• Familiar with most major animation/modeling programs and their plugin interfaces
• Using Linux at home since it came on floppies
SKILLS/ACHIEVEMENTS
• Developed highly multi-threaded download manager for Poser and associated products.
• Developed two-way interface from Poser to ZBrush through GoZ SDK allowing creation/modification of 3D morph targets in ZBrush to be applied to Poser figures/props.
• Developed game play UI of Full Tilt Poker client application used by hundreds of thousands of players world-wide.
• Developed Windows API emulation layer for Full Tilt Poker client application to allow seamless porting of client application to Apple OS/X.
• Worked on all facets of Playstation 1 game (Eggs of Steel), from development to publishing. EMPLOYMENT
Contractor, Tau Films, Los Angeles, Ca. 12/2016 – Present
• Developing viewer application to preview 3D amusement park stereoscopic video through Oculus/Vive headsets and Unity gaming platform.
• Contract is almost complete.
Senior Computer Graphics Software Engineer, Smith Micro Software, Inc., Aliso Viejo, Ca. 07/2011 – 11/2016
• Maintained and improved existing Poser product.
• Maintained plug-in interfaces to other 3d applications (Maya/3ds Max/Cinema 4D/Lightwave).
• Created/maintained plugins for import export to Alembic/FBX file formats.
• Implemented Media Plugin architecture to leverage different Media APIs available on target platforms
(QuickTime, Media Foundation, DirectShow).
• Implemented new functionality to interact with Zbrush modeling program through GoZ SDK.
• Created/maintained/improved Download Manager for controlled installation/update of Poser product. Contractor, Pocket Kings, Ltd. (formerly Tiltware LLC), Dublin, Ireland 01/2008 – 06/2008
• Maintenance and some new development on poker table display code written for Tiltware. Computer Programmer, Tiltware LLC, Los Angeles, Ca./Pocket Kings, Ltd., Dublin, Ireland 10/2003 – 01/2008
• Developed/maintained poker table display code to handle client game play, including user actions and Walter Hunt
P.O. Box 6081
Playa del Rey, Ca., 90296
walter.hunt@ c a.rr.com
server results.
• Developed front-end server to generate poker hand histories from back-end Microsoft SQL Server database in response to client application requests.
• Developed Mac port of client code through Windows API emulation layer.
• Developed several database reports for upper management to track ongoing site status.
• As one of the early developers, received profit-share payments which eventually allowed for semi- retirement.
Contractor, Curious Labs, Inc., Santa Cruz, Ca. 01/2003 – 05/2003
• Maintained and improved existing Poser product.
Computer Programmer, Curious Labs, Inc., Santa Cruz, Ca. 04/2000 – 12/2002
• Maintained and improved existing Poser product.
• Integrated Python scripting language into Poser product. EDUCATION
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va. B.S. Computer Science 1986