Experience

Independent game developer; Released Physworks and Fizz Filler on Android and Windows Phone:

• Use of open-source frameworks - Xamarin, JSON.NET and MonoGame
• Building editing tools under WPF / Winforms
• Code source control via Visual Studio Online services
• Writing multi-threaded C# code as part of a game engine
• UI / UX Design
• Unit testing – MSTest, NUnit and xUnit
• Implementing gameplay mechanics/features
• Creating 2D / sprite / GUI artwork
• Implemented in-game banner adverts
• Responding to crash/bug reports
• Managing & releasing patches/updates
• Working with a 3rd-party market/store systems (Windows and Google Play)

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Developed a free tool for building virtual environments for a game development community/language called DarkBASIC::

• Research; Finding out what features the community wanted
• Implementing community-requested features
• Maintaining a development log
• Unit testing
• Responding to crash/bug reports
• Managing & releasing patches/updates
• Implementing 3rd party APIs and plugins

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Two weeks work placement at HM Revenue & Customs (formerly Inland Revenue)::

• Sorting and Filing paper-based payee records
• Data entry; Updating payee records on system
• Working in a small team

Education

1st Class

BSc(Hons) Computer Game Development Degree

Destinction

BTEC First Diploma For IT Practitioners

Merit

BTEC National Diploma For IT Practitioners

Keyskills

It's been 5 years since I was the main programmer in a team of five for a university project, but I would never turn down the chance to work as part of a development team again. I believe teamwork can achieve far more than a single individual when cooperation and openness are at the core of a team's values.

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I like to stay on top of work, even if it not my area of expertise. I like to know when and what needs to be done to get a clear picture of what the end result should look like.

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I enjoy learning. I'm not afraid to ask questions to aid my understanding about a subject or technology. This also means you'll sometimes find me asking questions that may seem silly to others, to gain a clearer understanding of the matter.

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I love solving problems, big or small. I have an eye for detail, while also being able to keep the bigger picture in mind when working on smaller tasks.

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Good listener, fairly confident and sociable. Honest person. I’ll tell you directly if I lack the knowledge of a topic rather than hiding it. Not afraid of receiving criticism or negative feedback. I prefer to know what I'm doing wrong so I can correct it!

Skills

• C# - More than 6 years experience
• ASP.NET - Recently started learning via self-teaching. This portfolio is also made with it
• Xamarin - Used to produce games for Android using Mono and C#
• JSON.NET - Used in one of my games for parsing various pieces of data (news, saves, definition files).
• Mono and MonoGame - Cross-platform game framework for C#. Relies on Xamarin.
• Entity Framework
• SharpDX - DirectX API wrapper for C#; I've build a small, DirectX 11 game engine with it.
• .NET Core
• CodeDOM and Roslyn
• High Performance/Responsive Code - I have a good understanding of multi-threaded, asynchronous code design.

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• HTML - What is a web developer without this?!
• CSS - Comfortable using it without referring to documentation often.
• PHP - Used to build a basic changelog and news feed system for Physworks back in 2013
• Javascript - I have a basic understanding of JS. I learned a lot of it from creating this portfolio.
• MySQL
• T-SQL - Used to build this portfolio. Still new to it and still learning.
• Bootstrap
• AngularJS
• JQuery
• Lodash

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• Photoshop - Intermediate experience
• Source Control:
  • Visual Studio Online (cloud version of TFS) - Heavily used
  • Git - Used for a few personal projects
  • Subversion (SVN) - Used for various Garry's Mod addons years ago.
• Lua - A scripting language generally used by games to allow modification by players.
• DarkBASIC - A game-oriented implementation of BASIC. I started programming with this as far back as 2003.
• Experienced Windows User - I've used every version since Windows 95.

Hobbies & Interests

Science fiction, technology, travelling, programming, game design, ancient/medieval history, music, space and space travel.