(slouken@devolution.com)

• Lead Software Engineer, Game Systems:	Feb 2007 - Present
  Blizzard Entertainment, Irvine, CA

  • Senior level game programming and leading a group of gameplay programmers on World of Warcraft, an award winning MMORPG

• Senior Software Engineer:	Aug 2001 - Feb 2007
  Blizzard Entertainment, Irvine, CA

  • Senior level game programming on World of Warcraft, an award winning MMORPG

• Lead Programmer:	Jan 1999 - Aug 2001
  Loki Entertainment Software, Orange County, CA Porting best-selling games to the Linux Operating System

  • 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
    

• Programming Contractor:	May 1997 - Jan 1999
  ARDI, Albuquerque, NM

  • Port of Executor, a Macintosh emulator, to Win32

• UNIX System Analyst:	May 1997 - Jan 1999
  Pacific Bell Mobile Services, Pleasanton, CA.

  • Streamline technical support <--> user communication
  • HP server administration and performance tuning
  • Integration of enterprise management system (Openview)
  • High Availability Cluster setup and installation (MC/ServiceGuard)

• Technical Assistant:	Feb 1996 - April 1997
  California Resources Agency, Sacramento, CA.

  • Assist full-time System Administrator with CERES technical support.
  • Support CERES web development:
  • Set up ftp-access webs, code CGI scripts, generate automatic pages, etc.
  • Maintain network and system security.

• System Administrator:	Feb 1995 - Feb 1996
  California Resources Agency. Sacramento, CA.

  • Set up CERES network (4 Sun Solaris and several PowerPC and laptop systems)
  • Train users in software and organization of services.
  • Install and maintain software and hardware.
  • Trouble-shoot problems and provide documentation on solutions.
  • Provide UNIX training.

• Student Assistant:	Mar 1993 - Feb 1995
  Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA

  • Design and implement a Perl problem tracking and resolution system.
  • Help System Administrator become familiar with UNIX.
  • Assist in administration of large heterogeneous network (UNIX, Mac, PC)

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.