• Senior level game programming and leading a group of gameplay programmers on World of Warcraft, an award winning MMORPG
• Implemented phasing technology for Wrath of the Lich King
• Implemented large area of interest technology
• Trained and assisted many new engineers
• Reviewed and helped improve code quality
• Served as technical resource for the engineering team
• Helped create a gameplay team that delivered the Wrath of the Lich King on time with superb quality

• Senior level game programming on World of Warcraft, an award winning MMORPG
• Created UI infrastructure and AddOn system
• Designed and implemented creature AI system
• Maintained and improved spell system
• Maintained and improved game object system
• Created game systems for quests, holidays, and boss encounters

• Wrote and maintained open-source software:
  Simple DirectMedia Layer
  SMPEG - an MPEG-1/MP3 playback library
  SMJPEG - a motion JPEG playback library
  Graphical demo launching UI and demo CD kit
  Loki Update - an automated product patching tool
  Loki Uninstall - a complementary uninstall tool
  
• Worked on the following shipping titles:
  Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
  Tribes 2
  MindRover
  Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri and Alien Crossfire
  Rune, Rune - Halls Of Valhalla
  Heavy Gear II
  Heretic II
  Heroes of Might and Magic III
  Railroad Tycoon II
  Civilization: Call To Power
  

Education:

• College:
  • Sep. 1992 - April 1997 University of California at Davis
  • BS in Computer Science received April 1997. GPA: 3.23
• High School:
  • Graduated 1992 from Mesa Verde High School. Citrus Heights, CA.

Skills:

Languages:	C, C++, Perl, Tcl/Tk, HTML, PHP, Java, UNIX Shell script, Lisp.
OS:	Linux, HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, Other UNIX, Windows (98 and NT), MacOS.
General:	Software design and implementation Game development coordination World Wide Web server setup and administration HTML authoring and design User help and education UNIX and Macintosh support and administration Win95/UNIX game development and distribution TCP/IP networking – programming and OSI model Internet Networking and Security HP OpenView, HP MC/ServiceGuard configuration Hewlett Packard 9000 performance tuning

Some Interesting Projects:

• Simple DirectMedia Layer - Cross-platform game development library
• Encrypted IP tunnel mechanism over arbitrary TCP ports (PPPTCP)
• Port of the Macintosh game Maelstrom to Win95, Linux, Solaris, SGI, Ultrix, HP-UX, etc.
• Added a multi-player network mode to my port of Maelstrom.
• Wrote a Magic: The Gathering® card organizer in C++/Tcl/Tk.
      (runs on UNIX and Windows 95)
• IP network tunnel driver for Linux 1.2+
• Ported DHE 2.3 and 3.0 (DOOM! hack editor) from DOS to Linux.
• Problem tracking and updating system, written in Perl with an HTML front end.
• splitvt – A UNIX utility to split a vt100 window into two separate shells.
• Wrote a curses-based, MIME-aware, threaded UNIX mail reader.

You can see my personal web page at http://www.devolution.com/~slouken.