BRIAN BANNON   Software Developer
225.636.0974
bbanno1@gmail.com
http://guildhall.smu.edu/portfolio/bbanno1/

EXPERIENCE

The Guildhall at SMU

Master's Project   August 2009 - Current
    Valve Source project
    Implemented player ability to temporarily move through the level without collision
    Implemented custom collision detection and resolution to allow player to transition between clipping and no-clipping
    Implemented custom shaders to indicate to the player when no-clipping

Play Soldier - Programmer   August 2009 - Current
    Unreal Tournament 3 project, 16-person team (3 programmers)
    Optimized scripts to increase the number of supported destructible objects ten-fold
    Implemented player mechanic allowing the player to aim and launch the player's character as a ballistic rigid-body capable of damaging enemies and destructible structures
    Wrote over half of the documentation and assisted in task management responsibilities

RUN - Lead Programmer   May 2009 - July 2009
    Unreal Tournament 3 project, 9-person team (2 programmers)
    Implemented variable player running speed based on forward momentum, turning speed, jumping and landing, and pursuit of other players
    Implemented running camera animation
    Created shader effects and particle effects in the Unreal Editor
    Wrote technical documentation and managed task scheduling
    Elected by team as lead programmer

Elastiball - Programmer   May 2009 - July 2009
    Unreal Tournament 3 project, 8-person team (2 programmers)
    Brought in to fix network replication issues for multiplayer gameplay
    Brought in to bug fix issues in gameplay mechanics and visual effects

The Galatea Effect - Sole Programmer   September 2008 - December 2008
    Created a rendering engine supporting alpha blending, parallax scrolling, and sprite based entity movement and animation
    Created a physics engine with a tile based collidable environment and sprite physics (force-based acceleration and dampening, friction, gravity)
    Integrated FMOD into custom engine for music and sound
    Implemented all gameplay specific mechanics in custom 2D engine
    Implemented all gameplay specific mechanics in the Torque development environment

Individual work   
    Created a plug-in for exporting model data from 3D Studio Max including animation data, texture data, tangent space information, and perfect minimum bounding sphere information
    Created a particle-system emitter and physics simulation
    Created a byte-code compiler and virtual machine for a weakly-typed custom C-style scripting grammar
    Implemented a fixed-point math library supporting multiple fixed precisions
    Implemented a network-based server/client system with client interpolation between packets
 
3D Rendering Engine   
    Created an abstract rendering interface to Direct3D and OpenGL to produce identical renders in each
    Implemented custom shaders and wrote synonymous vertex and fragment shaders in HLSL and GL assembly for per-pixel lighting and parallax mapping
    Implemented a scene-graph based renderer with frustum culling
    Implemented a BSP renderer supporting encoded lightmaps and Bezier curves with frustum and VIS data culling and fast ray-casting
    Created a custom model loader supporting encoded textures and asynchronous streaming of serialized data
    Created an animation system using skinned models and keyframe bone data with blended animations
    Implemented a patch-based terrain system with distance-based and intrinsic level-of-detail, frustum culling, and supporting patch-stitching to avoid holes in the terrain

Trendsic Corporation

Software Developer   January 2008 - July 2008
    Developer for a custom software solution company
    Lead developer on two projects

Louisiana State University

The Core - Team Lead   August 2007 - December 2007
    Led a team of four developers in developing gameplay in an OpenGL API (Electro) using Lua
    Developed custom scene graph layer for maintaining Electro collisions
    Implemented enemy AI and pathing algorithms
    Implemented player control using Wiimote controller

EDUCATION

The Guildhall at SMU

Master of Interactive Technology in Digital Game Development   December 2009
Specialization in Software Development
Current Overall GPA: 3.55

Louisiana State University

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Fine Arts   December 2007
Overall GPA: 3.11

SKILLS

C/C++, Java, UnrealScript, assembly, HTML, Visual Basic, C#, Python, Scheme, Prolog, ML, SQL, Lua, Win32, DirectX, Direct3D, OpenGL, HLSL (FX), GL assembly, FMOD, multi-threading, MPI, network sockets, Newtonian dynamics, movement, collision detection and response, numerical integration schemes (forward Euler, implicit/backward Euler, midpoint, Runge-Kutta), spring-mass-dampener systems, rigid-body motion, BSP, outdoor terrain rendering, animation, lighting, shaders, effects, scene graphs, LOD, Debugging, design patterns, object-oriented programming, calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, numerical analysis and algorithms, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Unreal Engine 3, UnrealEd, Valve Source, Adobe Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, Windows XP, Vista, and 7, UNIX, LINUX, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Project), Subversion (SVN), Sourceforge Vault