Resume

First Job
About 10 years ago
Duration: Weekend
Graphical design work for a presentation for a fiber optics company in MD.

Second Job
 Roy Rogers
 About 7 years ago
 Duration: 1 - 1.5 years
 A fast food restaurant, and we weren’t even allowed to take the leftover chicken home.  Punctuated by extremely late closings up until 3 in the morning.  Main job skills learned were how to mix soft drinks and to cook fast food.

Third Job
 Max Software
 About 5 years ago
 Duration: 6 months, approximately
 Minor programming and manual work involving Pascal on the Object Oriented Skipjack database programming kit, developed and marketed by Max Software, an extremely small firm run by a friend dad knew from his work at Westinghouse.

Fourth Job
 Epic Megagames
 About 3 years ago
 Duration: Until present
 Creation, design, and development of a computer game called ‘Tyrian’.  Programmed entirely in Dos-based Turbo Pascal using DPMI, and large sections of assembly language.  Personal involvement required design and programming most all aspects of the game, all level creation work, sections of the artwork, major parts of the story writing, and generally a frantic, overly mindless design philosophy to implement everything interesting possible whether it really made sense or not.
 Programming work on Unreal with the intention of usage for an adventure game design named the ‘Circle’.  Project never reached a serious development stage due to lack of resources and a basic inability to afford to do the necessary work.
 Programming, partial design, and creation of an internal Windows 95 2-D terrain editor for use with Unreal, basically a tile-based editing system with gouraud shading to display height levels.  Later, and currently ongoing, modification of the editor for use as a level editor with another Epic game.

Extra Work
 Creation of a number of games based around the HP48SX handheld system, released as free and shareware, mainly for personal fun.
 Also a number of other PC programs made over time for various reasons, mainly just for my own satisfaction and enjoyment.

Knowledge of:
Programming Languages
Applesoft Basic  Good, but been a while
RPL   Extremely proficient in reverse polar notation programming
Saturn assembly  Used along with RPL to increase the speed of my HP games.
GW-Basic  Played with before deciding it was useless and learning Pascal
Turbo Pascal  Very proficient, only a little rusty, having programmed Tyrian using it.
PC assembly  Learned in order to make my PC games faster.
(A personal love of programming assembly routines, counting clock cycles and the like.)
Visual C (4.x / 5.0) Started working with about 1 year ago, only seriously working with since about 6 months.
   Several Win95 projects creating using C so far, mainly utilities to ease development.

Recent Programs
 Wordperfect / Word
 Excel
 Quicken
 Minor work doing web page design for helptext / fun
 Scream/Impulse tracker

Hardware
Fairly capable at fixing hardware problems and installing/modifying computer hardware, if sometimes a little frustrating.  Enjoys ripping computers apart to totally redo their configuration every once in a while.