Resume

Drake Christensen

Richardson, TX 75080

972-705-9798

Objective:

To obtain a position with a creative team in design and development of interactive multimedia products on a variety of platforms.

Special skills:

Cross platform design and development
Real-time networking
Manipulation of images
GUI implementation
Learned on a variety of platforms and languages
Languages: C/C++, x86 ASM, PHP4/MySQL, Pascal, Clipper/Foxpro/dBase, Basic, Databus
Operating systems: Win XP/9x/Win 3.1, Linux, MS-DOS/Protected mode, Lantastic, Novell
Other tools: SourceSafe, CVS, Lotus Notes, MFC, Smartheap, Bounds Checker, Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver

Professional experience:

Jan 2004 - Present—Joe Christensen, Inc.—Web Developer

Gave the company a web presence.
Worked toward providing customers with real-time access to their print job status.
Tools: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Project Seven add-ons.
Operating systems: Windows XP, Linux.
Databases: Access, MySQL.

July 2002 - Oct 2002—Art Institute Online—Contract Consultant

November 1999 - January 2001—Inertia Games—Contract Programmer

Integrated Fox, a cross-platform GUI widget kit. Included text file front end to facilitate changes by artists late in the project.
Designed and implemented training sessions and event rules monitoring.
Implemented DirectX and proprietary joystick calibration system.
Continued support of SDOE.

September 1998 - December 1998—Parsoft Interactive—Programmer

Hired as contractor to help with Fighter Squadron: Screamin' Demons Over Europe
Implemented force feedback
Implemented front end to network play.
Integrated Activision's ActiveNet library. Implementation of interface layer between the sim and ActiveNet.
Design and implementation of user interface for the multi-player marshalling area using MFC-derived system written by another programmer.
Operating systems: Win 9x

February 1998 - September 1998—Digital Chicken—Programmer

Began work on utility libraries for a product which will use a first person shooter engine.
Installed Linux IP Masq system.

May 1997 - March 1998—Micrografx, Inc.—Programmer

Member of the Picture Publisher team
Implemented fixed-point math class to save overhead in converting between integer and floating point. Improved performance of rotation by 100%.
Designed and implemented animated GIF support.
Languages: C++
Operating systems: Win 9x
Other tools: Lotus Notes, SourceSafe

July 1995 - April 1997—Learn Technologies Interactive, Inc.—Programmer

Design and development of game development system for graphic adventure games and 2D arcade/sim products. Development system provides the game designer with a stable platform to rapidly develop a series of games without requiring constant engineering attention.
Qin: Tomb of the Middle Kingdom, Robot Club and Junkland Jam released using the above system.
Design and development of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, a multimedia reference product.
Languages: C++
Operating systems: Win 95/Win 3.1
Other tools: Lotus Notes, SourceSafe

March 1994 - June 1995—Dallas Multimedia—Consultant/Programmer

Brought on as consultant to assist in finishing European port for their first game.
Retained to design graphic adventure game development system.
As a background project, began design and development of an arcade game. Arcade game is in early prototype/proof of concept form.
Developed prototype game based on 4th grade children's book.
Languages: C/C++, Macromind Director
Operating systems: MS-DOS, Win 3.1

July 1989 - February 1994—Videotex Systems, Inc.—Programmer

Design, development, maintenance, technical support, and answered pre-sales questions for programmer's library and image manipulation utilities.
T-Base, an image display library compiled under multiple compilers, linked directly with several programming languages under a variety of DOS environments, and supported a wide range of display adapters, printers and scanners.
Began work on porting library to Windows 3.1 and Visual Basic 2.0.
Utilities include image conversion and image capture programs.
Implemented multi-programmer revision control system.
Researched new customer contact/tech support database products.
Gained experience with various image capture boards, scanners, printers, video editing equipment, non-linear digital editing, 2D and 3D animation, page layout.
Languages: C, ASM, dBase/Clipper/Foxpro.
Operating systems: MS-DOS/Protected mode, Win 3.1, Lantastic

September 1983 - June 1989—Retail Technologies, Inc.—Programmer

Development and maintenance of turnkey package for retail fashion industry. Packages provides inventory control, ordering, point-of-sale, layaways, A/R, A/P, G/L, master/satelite site communications on IBM PC.
Design, development and maintenance of three manufacturers rep packages for the fashion industry. Packages provide order tracking, commisions, customer buying history, direct mail advertising.
Wrote several utility programs for internal use.
Provided telephone and on-site end-user technical support.
Experience with Novell, Alloy PC Slave boards, Multi-Link, PC-Anywhere
Languages: Databus, Pascal
Operating systems: MS-DOS, CP/M, Novell

April 1989 - June 1989—Amerinet Communications—Consultant/Programmer

July 1987 - November 1987—Electronic Data Entry Systems—Programmer

Design and development of a dBase-style language and a communication protocol for interface between IBM PCs and handheld computers (8-bit Z-80-class.)
Wrote document tracking package for a large insurance company.
Languages: C, dBase III, and several dialects of Basic.
Operating systems: Proprietary to each handlheld.

Education:

Completed two and a half years at the University of TX in Austin, and North Texas University majoring in Computer Science with electives in English.

References:

Available upon request.

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