7 High Road Bushey Heath Jamie Thompson Bushey Herts WD23 1EA telephone: available on request e-mail: cv@jamie-thompson.co.uk http://jamie-thompson.co.uk/employers Personal * Nationality British Information * Age 28 Objective Highly technical tools programmer seeking to leverage a multitude of skills to improve the quality of game software though the provision of effective tools and processes. Education 2001 - 2004 - The University of Lincoln, Hull, Humberside, UK 1993 - 2000 - Bushey Meads GMS, Bushey, Herts, UK Skills * 4 years of commercial C# development, 7 years hobby & 3 years university C++ experience, 14 years hobby programming in general In addition, knowledge of scripting languages such as PHP & Perl and exposure to libraries such as Qt. * Experience with multiple development environments including: - Microsoft Visual Studio v5.0 to 2008 - UNIX-based development with gcc * Team development experience using version control software such as CVS, Subversion, and Perforce, and build management with CruiseControl.net * Experience with web technologies such as HTTP, XML, XHTML, CSS, XSLT, XPath, JavaScript, Flash, ASP.net, jQuery, SSL and others. * 4 years experience working with game localisation processes, as well as technical aspects such as character encodings * Experience with DirectX / OpenGL * Experience working with 3D content authoring (3D Studio MAX). * Server administration experience with numerous services including but not limited to: Linux, Windows Server 2003, IP, IIS, OpenLDAP, Postfix, DHCP, DNS, SSH, Apache, MySQL, VMware. * Highly skilled with many common Office applications (e.g. MS Office) Work * 07/2009 - 01/2011 SCEE, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire experience Programmer Promoted within existing role. * 06/2006 - 07/2009 SCEE, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Junior Programmer Working within the tools group, it is my responsibility to both assist my co-workers with the software needed to perform their jobs as well as developing software as required. To fulfil these responsibilities I use my abilities to adapt to and use many differing technologies as required. During this time I have mainly been working on projects to assist with the game localisation process, where I have had to fulfil a number of roles as the team was quite small. * 11/2005 - 10/2006 Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA Quality Rater - UK My role consists of ranking and evaluating web pages in the context of given queries, and ranking them according to criteria set forth by Google. In order to perform the role I use my excellent researching skills along with the ability to analyse unfamiliar topics quickly and accurately. * 09/2005 - 06/2006 CEX Ltd., Watford, Hertfordshire Returns Assistant I was responsible for processing returned stock and repairing or dispatching to external repair facilities said stock. These items included (but not limited to) games consoles, mobile phones, PC components and other electronic goods such as laptops and digital cameras, etc. I also assisted with the movement of stock through the warehouse. * 09/2004 - Self Employed, Bushey, Hertfordshire Jamie Thompson IT Services I have provided technical support and PC repair services to residential clients; this includes developing a couple of websites. The income from these services is very modest and not sustainable in the long term, but has allowed me to continue working on a number of avenues of further personal research topics (i.e. XML/XSL, SQL, PHP, LDAP, Linux, C++ game engine development, etc). * 10/2000 - 08/2001 Clientlogic, Watford, Hertfordshire Sony Customer Care Agent My role involved providing excellent customer care services over the telephone on a variety of issues that related to Sony's products. Whilst in this role I became responsible for the development and maintenance of the pan European (and Multilanguage) playstation.com internal help system (the "knowledge base"), which I rebuilt from its original form using HTML and CSS. I also became responsible for handling feedback from the users of the system as well as training them on its usage. Awards * 1st Class Honours Degree received BSc (Hons.) Games Computing (Software Development) * Distinction Advanced GNVQ I.T. * GCSEs Systems & Control A Office Studies B Science Double Award AA Mathematics B English Literature A Art C English Language B French D Interests * Cross-platform programming (with particular interest in C++) and * General computing issues activities * Gaming * Drawing and some 3D modelling * Current affairs (particularly in the area of intellectual property) * Japanese culture References Available on request