HuntingtonBeach,CA http://www.technicat.coresume@technicat.com Résumé of Philip Chu Objective Seeking challenging projectsutilizininnovativesoftware tocreateenriched consumer experiences,with a particular interestinopen-source programming and theconvergence ofinternetmultimedia, and wirelesstechnologies. Career Two decades ofsoftware development experience ina Education Bachelors degree in computer science and variety of roles, with projects spanning interactiveengineering from the Massachusetts Institutof Technology entertainment, wireless interne, computer graphics, and a mastersdegree incomputer sciencefrom Johns Hopkins semiconductors and defense. University. Professional ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interactive Entertainment technicat Consulting Huntington Beach, CA Principal Providing software development, projectmanagement, productionplanning, game April2002-Present design and writing services. White paper published by the Nintendo Software Development Support Group. Open-source contributionsto the Java FO-to-RTF (JFOR) and PS/2 Linux projects. Hyper Entertainment Location-based entertainment spin-offfrom Sony. Burbank, CA Senior Game Programmer HyperBowl Lead programmer for attractiongame installedinlocations such as January 2001-June 2001 GameWorks , Jillians and the Sony Metreon . Optimized renderer, provided Mirai/GameExchange support,DirectSound fixesDirect3D compatibilitywithlatest nVidia graphics cards.Released arcadeand French versionsin May 2001. Wireless Internet Univessence Digital Productions Multimedia technology and production studio Culver City, CA Consultant Chief architectfor a wireless information network. CAMPA Prototyped web October 2000-January 2001 collaborationtoolsusing JavaSwing and Mozilla . Neomar Wireless internetstartup San Francisco, CA Technical Lead Co-lead fordevelopment, from design to deployment in five months, of a WAP December 1999-July 2000 gateway supporting handheld devices such as RIM , Palm. Responsible for HTTP , transcoder, securityand management implementation. Integrated Certicom SSL , JavaMail ,JMX ,JSSE ,JTAPI .Performed web testingusingSquid .Launched in May 2000 fortheMotient wirelessservice. Computer Graphics Digital Chameleon Computer graphics startup Los Angeles, CA Vice President of Technology Character Animation System Led development of a Java-based behavioral January 1998-September 1998 animation applicationon SGI Irixand Windows NT. Consultant Operating officerin a startupdeveloping 3D graphics and animation products September 1997-December 1997 targetingfilm visualeffectand game development. Nichimen Graphics Computer graphics startup Los Angeles, CA Consultant Mirai Implemented tessellatordebugged Win32 issues and multithreading bugs August 1997-November 1998 with nVidia graphicsdrivers. Manager ofCore Software NWorld 3.2/FastTrack Responsible for core technology components and June 1996-July 1997 multi-platform support.Led a group of fiveprogrammers developing thecompany's firstPC product, demonstrated atI/ITSEC and Siggraph, and completed within fifteen months. Liaison with graphics hardware ISV's and middleware vendors, including Intergraph, 3Dlabs, and Sun Microsystems . NWorld 3.1 Maintenance release,supportingSGI Octane and O2 platforms.Group manager responsiblefor all core librariesincluding 3D rendering,image processing,licensing,installeruser interfaceand filesystem. PhiliChu 'Resume -page1 Copyrigh© 2004by PhiliChu Donot distribuwithoupermission. HuntingtonBeach,CA http://www.technicat.coresume@technicat.com Member of Technical Staff NWorld 3.0 Replaced the IrisGL-based rendering and user-interfacelibrariewith December 1995-May 1996 an OpenGL implementation, supportingSGI Impact and Indigo platforms.NWorld 2.1 Systems programmer fora 3D modelling and animation package targetedat game development and visualeffectsforfilm. Fixed IrisGLcompatibility problems with newly-introduced SGI Impact systems running IGLOO, the IrisGL emulator implemented inOpenGL. Government/Defense BBN Research and development Cambridge, MA Software Engineer ARGUS 2.0-3.0 Development of a target signature database for the National February 1994-November 1995 Target/Threat SignaturesData System . Science Applications International Government/military contractor Columbia, MD Software Engineer Warbreaker Migrated DIS platformto a C++-based networking libraryVR-link in January 1993-January 1994 time foran exercise within two months. Maritime Synthetic Theater of War Developed and integratedDistributed InteractivSimulation (DIS) components for wide-area networked militarysimulationsat theJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory,deployed within fivemonths. AURA University astronomy consortium Baltimore, MD Software Engineer Proposal Entry Processor Developed proposalprocessing software forastronomers October 1990-May 1992 working withthe Hubble Space Telescope atthe Space Telescope ScienceInstitut. Semiconductors/Manufacturing Interval Logic Supply-chain management startup Menlo Park, CA Senior Principal Software Engineer Leverage for Scheduling 3.2 Technical lead for group of five programmers April1998-December 1999 developing alldesktop and web interfaces,installatioand licensingcomponents. Leverage for Scheduling 3.1 Technical lead for group of three programmers developing web, ActiveX and installerand licensingcomponents of an automation system for semiconductor manufacturing. Leverage forScheduling 3.0 Packaged a distributed manufacturing scheduling system for semiconductor fabs with Installshieland ObjectStore. Senior Software Engineer Leverage for Planning 4.2 Optimized semiconductor fabricationplanning system December 1998-April 1999 using TclPro and TclJava. MIT Cambridge, MA Research Specialist Database Accelerator Developed simulators and sample applications for a September 1989-September 1990 content-addressable memory (CAM) at theMicrosystems Technology Laboratory . Content-Addressable Parallel Processor Developed simulatorand cross-compiler for a SIMD parallelprocessor based on CAM units with conditional writes. Implemented image-processing algorithms. Texas Instruments Fortune 500 company Dallas, TX Member of Technical Staff DROID Development of a VLSI CAD system applied to products such as TI May 1988-August 1989 DRAM's. Responsible fortechnology libraryroutingand layoutmodules. Academic ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Graduate Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD Ph.D. Candidate Courses Automata and functional programming. Tutor Volunteer computer September 1993-January 1994 instructionfordisabledchildrenat Learning Independence through Computers . M.S. Computer Science Courses Algorithms, string-matching, machine vision and computer language September 1992-January 1993 theory. Research Assistant User interfacesfor artificiaintelligenceplanning systems at the NASA Ames Research Center. Teaching Assistant Teaching assistantfor Computer Literacy undergraduate course.Tutor Volunteer instructor PhiliChu 'Resume -page2 Copyrigh© 2004by PhiliChu Donot distribuwithoupermission. HuntingtonBeach,CA http://www.technicat.coresume@technicat.com for childreninthe JohnsHopkins UniversityTutorialProject. Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX Graduate Studies Courses Graph theory and softwareengineering. June 1988-August 1988 Undergraduate Massachusetts Instituteof Technology Cambridge, MA Graduate Studies Courses Computer architecture. February 1990-May 1991 S.B. Computer Science and Thesis :ExploitingParallelism inGame-Playing Programs. Explored parallelgame Engineering search algorithms on a 33-processor Lisp machine. Research Assistant User September 1984-May 1988 interface for START natural language system and implementation of PLOT3D machine visiontoolon Symbolics Lispmachines atthe MIT AI Laboratory.System Administrator Installedand maintained hardware and software systems atthe MIT Advanced Study Program Technical Sales Consultant Technical salesand service at MIT Microcomputer Center.Technical Writer Authored technicalpress releases for Hennessie PublicRelations. Iowa State University Ames, IA Intern Chemical engineering laboratoryinternship in the Iowa State Summer Science June 1983-August 1983 Program forundergraduate credit. West High School Iowa City, IA High School Graduate Laborary AssistantAssisted in studyat Universityof Iowa Cancer Research Lab. March 1982-May 1984 Soccer team Varsityletterfullback.Chess club Captain, firstand second board. School newspaper Associate EditorialEditor.Othello Freeware game running on Apple II.Honors National Honor Society. National MeritSemifinalist.Iowa State science award. Winner of soilconservationessay contest.Programmer Educational software development at CONDUIT (UniversityofIowa) PhiliChu 'Resume -page3 Copyrigh© 2004by PhiliChu Donot distribuwithoupermission.