Christopher H Willoughby
Engine/Graphics Programmer
cwilloughby@gmail.com

407.697.0174
PMB 199
126 SW 148th ST STE C100
Seattle, WA 98166

www.chriswilloughby.com


SKILLS
TEAMWORK
*Self motivated
*Excellent communication skills
*Solution-oriented problem solver
*Technical leadership experience

3D MATH
*Linear algebra
*Physics

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
*Design patterns

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
*C/C++/x86 ASM/PPC ASM/C#/VB
*CG/HLSL
*SQL
*MEL Script

REAL TIME PROGRAMMING
*Open world development
*Rendering (with shaders)
*Streaming
*Advanced animation
*Multithreading

EMBEDDED PROGRAMMING
*Xbox 360
*PS3
*Game Boy Advance

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES
*Unreal Engine (3.0+)
*Microsoft DirectX (5.0+)
*OpenGL (1.0+)
*Win32/MFC/wxWidgets
*Maya (6.0+)
*Havok

OPTIMIZATION
*PIX for Xbox/Windows
*XbPerfView

SOURCE CONTROL
*P4/CVS/SVN/Alienbrain

DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE
*Microsoft Visual Studio
*Microsoft Office
*Microsoft Visio
*Oracle/MS SQL


EXPERIENCE
Surreal Software/Midway Games
10/2006 - Present
ATG Graphics Programmer
Seattle, WA
*Transitioned from recent graduate to reliable professional
*Successful member of gameplay, simulation, and engine teams
*Worked to find elegant solutions to complex problems
*Juggled numerous responsibilities effectively
*Exceeded goals independently
*Designed and managed tasks bound for other programmers
*Wrote detailed technical design documents and email
*Honored with quarterly "Over the Top" award in 10/2007

Interyx LLC
10/2000 - 12/2004
Lead Programmer
Casper, WY
*Member of the LLC
*Lead a team of five programmers
*Utilized Oracle and Microsoft (SQL/Access) databases
*Designed and implemented mission critical applications
*Became skilled with Visual Basic (6.0/.NET)
*Mastered SQL


PROJECTS
This is Vegas (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)
Surreal Software/Midway Games
10/2006 - Present
ATG Graphics Programmer
*Spearheaded creation of modular character generation solution
*Delivered characters/vehicles at 25% below memory estimates
*Established and optimized character/vehicle art pipeline/tools
*Responsible for character/vehicle shaders and rendering
*Created adaptive character/vehicle streaming solution
*Implemented anim pose sharing and other optimizations
*Fine tuned animation based interactions
*Actively contributed new ideas to art and design teams

Dungeon of Glory
Academic Project
05/2006 - 09/2006
Technical Lead
*3D dungeon crawler - Action/RPG
*Designed and constructed procedural dungeon generator
*Demonstrated skinned animations (Hardware/Software)
*Implemented renderer abstraction (OpenGL/Direct3D)
*Created Maya exporters (Model/Animation/Appearance)
*Produced detail Design and Technical documentation

iCDC
Interyx LLC
01/2002 - 12/2003
Lead Programmer
*District Court case management system
*Utilized Oracle 9i database back end
*Implemented XML driven data conversion process
*Worked with Clerk of District Court
*Implemented credit/debit based accounting system
*Designed auto-update application to keep client updated


EDUCATION
Full Sail Real World Education
01/2005 - 09/2006
Winter Park, FL
Bachelor of Science Degree in Game Development
*Valedictorian
*3.94/4.00 GPA

Casper College
2003
Casper, WY
Associate of Science Degree in Computer Science