Basic data
Telephone: +58-416-413-6095
Fax: +58-212-2714401
Email: ciro (at) ldc (dot) usb (dot) ve
Site: http://www.ldc.usb.ve/~ciro/
Professional objective
Undergraduate student soon to obtain title with experience programming OpenGL, shaders, Flash and a passion for creating games seeks position in game programming, design, or production.
Education
Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela.
Degree: Computer Engineer (undergraduate)
Specialized in Computer Graphics and Database design and administration
Estimated graduation date: April 2006.
In 5th year, doing thesis in the Medical Visualization area.
Academical index: 4.20/5.00
Areas of interest
Computer Graphics. My thesis is about programming a Direct Volume renderer using the texture mapping features of graphic cards, specifically working with nVidia FX chips.
Videogame creation. In my website there are some projects of my own, which span various categories: adventure "point n' click" games, flash games and cell phone games.
Human Computer Interaction.
Music.
Professional experience
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Operator for Laboratorio Docente de Computación
Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela.
Working from September 2001 until today
Position: Unix and Windows networks administration, management and maintenance. Technical support to Computer Science undergraduates and teachers. Oracle 9i database server administration for database courses. Computational grid installation and administration.
Site: http://www.ldc.usb.ve -
Freelance programmer for 3G Data
Caracas, Venezuela.
Working from September 2004 until today.
Position: Programming cell games for the various cell phones. Published games: Tic Tac Toe, Solitaire, Coloritmo. -
Server administrator for JEPES Servicios
Barcelona, Spain.
Working from December 2003 until today.
Position: Managing network services (hosting, e-mail, DNS) for company clients.
Personal projects
Most of them consist of games I make in my spare time. Adventure games, platform games, and games for cell phones. Other programs include scripts for network administration tasks.
Skills
- Languages: Spanish (mother language), and English.
- Programming languages: C, C++, PERL, Java (Standard and Micro edition), Actionscript (versions 1 and 2), PHP, Python.
- OpenGL graphics library programming. Some Cg programming experience.
- Illustration tools: Macromedia Flash MX and MX 2004, Fireworks MX, and Adobe Photoshop 6.0.
- 3D Modelling and Animation packages: Alias Maya 6.0.
- Operative systems: Linux (Red Hat/Fedora/Gentoo), Sun Solaris 9 and 10, Windows (98/2000/XP)
- Design, implementation and administration of RDBMs: Oracle 9i and MySQL.
- Installation and administration of network services as DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Web servers (Apache 1.3 or 2.0), Samba, NTP, Postfix, Qmail, Mailman, NIS.
- Management of domain administration software for servers: Plesk Server Administration 6.0, 4PSA Total Domains.
- Repair and assembly of PCs, typographical tool expertise: TeX and LaTeX2e
- Good technical writing skills.
Events and memberships
- August 2005 - SIGGRAPH 2005. 32nd. Student Volunteer.
- ACM SIGGRAPH Membership #2892958
Last update: 2005/08/19