Simon Gayton
sgayton@digipen.edu
www.digipen.edu/~sgayton

14636 N.E. 38th Street Apt. 2034
Bellevue, WA 98007
(425)869-1369

Objective
Searching for a position as a game programmer in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Education
Baccalaureate Degree in Real Time Interactive Simulation (Computer Science), with a minor in mathematics, from DigiPen Institute of Technology, Redmond WA, Graduate April 2007

Technical Experience
* Computer languages – C/C++ (4 years), Java, Python, Assembly for GameBoy Color
* Computer graphics (2 years)
* Calculus, Linear algebra, Quaternions, Physics
* User interface programming
* Tools design and development
* Windows 98/2000/XP, Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, 3DS Max, Metrowerks Code Warrior

Group Game Projects
Current – Programmer / Technical director, on five person team, for Gravitation. Responsibilities include graphics programming using HLSL, network programming using WinSock and integration with DirectX’s DXUT framework.
2005-2006 – Programmer / Producer, on a four person team, for Pingo. Pingo is a 3D game where you try to herd more Pingos (wandering spheres) to your goal than other players. It runs under Windows using DirectX 9. It takes place on a spherical, height-mapped world. I was responsible for the 3D physics and camera movement.
2004-2005 – Programmer / Technical director, on a four person team, for TCubed. TCubed is a side scrolling, platform adventure for Windows using DirectX. You find yourself in a corrupted computer system where your only weapon is a disc that can be thrown. You must find keys and defeat bosses to escape. I was responsible for the level editor, player/disc/particle physics, and designing data structures for level data.
2003-2004 – Programmer / Designer, on a four person team, for Scat Attack. Scat Attack is a tile based puzzle game, where you must build a pipeline to reconnect a broken sewer line before the flow spills out. I was responsible for fluid flow programming and win/loss detection.

Related Work Experience
Fall 2006 – Teaching Assistant, DigiPen Institute of Technology. As a teaching assistant for Advanced Animation and Modeling, my responsibilities included; assisting students with questions, project grading, and giving a presentation on programming and loading 3D hierarchal models.