My Resume

Name: Rui Figueira
Date of birth: 4 February, 1978
Email : rui@crazygaze.com

Adress:

Rua de La Riche, nº 12
Urbanização da Póvoa de Baixo
3860-344 Portugal, Estarreja

Objective
To find a position in the game industry where I can make a nice contribution to the company, constantly improve myself, and have sense of achievement.

Highlights of qualifications

  • 1 year of experience as a game programmer (plus ~6 years as an hobbyist), but I already worked as a programmer since 2001 in a different industry
  • Expert at C/C++
  • Familiar with SubVersion, CVS, Sourcegear Vault, Doxygen, Visual Studio, Photoshop
  • Experienced with multiplatform development. (PC, Windows CE, Symbian, Palm, Mophun)
  • Experienced with audio programming
  • Easygoing personality. No problem making friends.
  • Lifelong gamer and programmer.
  • Computer literate

Other qualifications

  • Experienced writing efficient and portable code
  • Experienced writing code for constrained platforms
  • Experience with the following libraries/SDKs (not limited to): FMOD, RakNet, CEGUI, wxWidgets
  • Some knowledge of Assembly
  • Experience with (not limited to): Java, Delphi, PHP, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, Photoshop

Published commercial products

1. czPlayer Sound System - (PC,Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm)
Owner, (2007)
http://www.crazygaze.com/blog/czplayer
Developed my own sound system (completely software mixing), with the codebase roots way back to 1998, when I coded a sound system for SB to SB 16, GUS (software and hardware mixing).

2. Galactic Melee – (PC)
Game Programmer (2007), Jenkins Software (author of RakNet networking library)
http://www.galacticmelee.com
Programmed and/or helped programming sound, user interface, networking, autopatcher. 3rd party libraries used included Ogre 3D, Fmod, Physx, and CEGUI.
Galactic Melee was the world’s first commercial Indy MMOG.

3. Pipes’n’Robots – (SE T3xx mobile phone, Mophun platform)
Owner, (2004)
http://www.midlet-review.com/index?content=news&id=440
Did all the programming, and project management. Telecommuted with a gfx artist, and a sound artist.

Education:
Unfinished degree at “Aveiro University� (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aveiro_University), with “Computers and Telematic Engineering� (similar to Software Engineering)

Relocation:
Available for relocation if the offer is good enough. Also available for telecommuting.

Salary Requirement:
Negotiable

References:
References available upon request.