Curriculum Vitae - Ashley Vaughan Smith

Currenly not looking for work; please feel free to contact me anyway though
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Ashley Smith – yuumei at yuumei dot co dot uk – yuumei.co.uk
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Personal Details

Name	Ashley Vaughan Smith	Tel	(please contact me)
DOB	29/05/1987
Address	(please contact me)	Email	yuumei at yuumei dot co dot uk
		Website	yuumei.co.uk

Personal Statement

I'm a driven and very keen programmer with an eye on the details of the finer points of programming. I'm actively using a lot of C++ and DirectX on a daily basis on my university course and enjoy programming in my own time on various home projects. I am hard-working, and equally able to collaborate in a team as I am capable of getting on and working independently to get the job done.

Education

University of Derby Year 1 (2005 — 2006) Software Development ii A Software Development i A- Computer Network Concepts B- Games Design B- Communication And Web Design B Ludology C+ Computer Architecture C Computational Mathematics C-	University of Derby Year 2 (2006 — 2007) Intro. To 3D Graphics Programming B+ Operating Systems B+ Interactive 3D Graphics B Software Development iii B Applied Games Development C+ Mobile Devices C- Games Development Techniques D+
Droitwich Spa Sixth-Form (2003 — 2005) Product Design (A-level) Maths (AS-level) Information Technology (A-level) Physics (A-level)	Worcester College of Technology (2003) Introduction To C++ (NVQ)

Relevant Skills

I am a good team worker; as during university I have participated in a team on many occasions and much of the time lead the team in a role such as lead programmer.
Talking and communicating with people is essential in most of the modules I have been doing; also working under pressure, meeting deadlines and generally getting things done on time and to specification.
APIs I've used include Gamebryo, Unreal engine, Ogre, Irrlicht, and Dark Basic.
My technical skills include the following; some examples of which can be found in my portfolio:

C++ (managed and un-managed), D
Games related APIs (Gamebryo, Unreal Engine)
DirectX and OpenGL
C# and .NET
PHP, MySQL, XML, XSL and web design
Scrum and agile development

Java, javascript, TCL, TK, Python
Bug tracking systems such as bugzilla and JIRA
Milkshape, 3D studio max and Maya
Subversion, CVS and version control software
Windows, (CLI) Linux
Automated/custom build systems

Work Experience

Monumental Games Ltd. (2007-present) — Nottingham

For a placement year I started work for Monumental Games in April as a junior designer. I worked my way up to being a fully fledged designer before long. Monumental Games create MMOG's and I was involved fully in the development of Football Superstars from beginning to end. My work involved but was not limited to: creating scripts, creating and placing NPC's and creating collision data. I was also one of the main point of contacts for the software department.

Look-In Ltd. (2005-2006) — Derby

I was employed to operate and manage the video recording equipment when on various sites. This included recording equipment and other electrical devices. I was also commissioned to design the corporate image and website.

Hobbies and Interests

I am an active member of the Anime and Manga society which I enjoy and also enjoy drawing during my free time along with my main interest in programming.
I also keep my own website up to date; along with maintaining a forum for the society. I have been using a vast variety of different content management systems for a long time and have experience of these. This is all in my free time as well as programming in different languages and looking at different operating systems which I enjoy. I also have a gentoo linux server running at home that I use for email, development and keeping my projects available (kyuu.co.uk).

Referees

University Programme Leader

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CTO, Monumental Games Ltd.

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Projects

C++ DirectX engine / scenegraph A project created for university. This demonstrates how to implement a fast, optimised game, using a tree style scene graph. Implemented currently are: Scene, mesh and gird nodes Intersection tests on the scenegraph Collisions tests on the scene graph view
Mobile java game A game created in Java (J2ME) for mobiles. Designed to run with as little memory, space and processor power as possible. The game is a simple space shooter, with graphics designed by myself. Currelty impleneted are: A player with bullets Collision with land view
Pirates stategy game, created in gamebryo Pirates stategy game, created in gamebryo. This game was created ina team of 4 people, where I was assigned the role of lead programmer. In this project development had to take place at university with all the team present and no source code was allowed to be taken home. view
Irrlicht Pass the Pigs A game created in Irrlicht engine, using C#. The game is very simple, as it was the first assignment of my university course, but it is 3d. view
Zelda in game Maker A game created to reflect the game "Zelda" made by Nintendo. Created in Game Maker for my Ludology module. view
Software renderer This is a project, created for university. It demonstrates the way that 3d model coordinates can get from the disk to the screen. view
Path finding with SDL This is an example of a* path finding. It uses c++, SDL and OpenGL for graphics. view