THANG HONG TO
tthang@smu.edu                                                                                                                                  214.762.0177
http://guildhall.smu.edu/portfolio/thangto                                                     
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GAME EXPERIENCE
PrimaeNoctis, Unreal Tournament 3 project								August 2008 – September 2009
Programmer, 17-person team (3 programmers)
* Implemented all custom components of game HUD
* Implemented skills of all three different forms of main character
* Implemented third-person and behind-shoulder camera and handled Xbox controllers
* Implemented custom AI for enemies so that they know how to use their weapons effectively

Elastiball, Unreal Tournament 3 project									March 2009 - May 2009
Sole Programmer, 7-person team
* Create new weapon with swing mechanic: player shoot and stick a rope at any objects in the game’s environment, swing around (player can control character in the air)
* Implement custom game HUD
* Work with artists and level designer in building the art packages and the game’s installer
* Wrote technical design document

Return of the NOM, 2D project											October 2008 – December 2008
Sole Programmer, 3-person team
* Programmed a 2D engine and game (scrolling platform, simulating forces, collision detection, alpha blending, fonts)
* Integrated FMOD for music and sound using an abstract sound manager

GAME TECHNOLOGY
Master’s Project: In-game graphic user interface for AI programming		August 2009 – January 2010
* Programmed a isometric 2D team-based action-RPG
* Implemented a data driven design: monsters, magics… can be added by changing the data files
* Coded a rule-based AI system, design a AI-rule definition file with real time loading
* Created a HUD system to show the game’s info

3D Rendering Engine	 													October 2008 – July 2009
* Coded a general interface and general data structures that connect transparently to both OpenGL and Direct3D (to the depth of programming HLSL and GL assembly shaders for per-pixel light, bump, and parallax mapping)
* Developed and unit tested a math library (fixed point, 2D and 3D vectors, matrices, quaternions)
* Built a QUAKE map loader (BSP, lightmaps, textures, Bezier curve patches) which does fast ray traces with the BSP
* Coded an Importer and Exporter for 3DStudioMax files and a custom file format (includes models, textures). Optimal file loading with single read, compute perfect optimal bounding sphere of the model.
* Design a logging system with several outputs: screen, console or files

Terrain Rendering Engine												April 2009 –May2009
* Created 4 algorithms for stiching patches so that there’re no holes in the terrain
* Implemented quad-tree scene graph for culling terrain
* Implemented dynamic Level of Detail and intrinsic detail
* Implemented per-pixel light with bump map generated from the terrain’s height map
* Created skybox around the terrain

Directed Focus Study: Procedural generated dungeon						March 2009 – May 2009
* Implemented graph layout drawing algorithms: Horizontal-Vertical drawing, recursive wind, force-directed 
* Implemented a portal-based scene graph
* Coded several algorithms for generating random 2d shape
* Created 3D dungeon includes rooms, hallways full textured with lighting

Interpreted Scripting Language											March 2009 – May 2009
* Wrote a grammar for a C-like syntax (if..else, switch, while, do..while, for, foreach) with weakly-typed variables (vector, string, integer, float) which have basic operators between them 
* Coded a lexical analyzer to create tokens from language use, a parser to build a tree from the token stream, and a compiler for converting the syntax tree to custom bytecode
* Programmed a stack-based virtual machine to operate on the bytecode (supporting function call, local variables and recursion)
* Integrate the scripting codes with game project’s codes

EDUCATION
The Guildhall at SMU
* Master of Interactive Technology in Digital Game Development			December 2009
* Specialization in Software Development
* Current Overall GPA: 3.588
Vietnam National University, Hanoi, College of Technology				July 2008
* Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
* Overall GPA: 8.64 out of 10

SKILLS
C/C++, C#, Java, Python, Unreal script, Java script, Assembly, DirectX 9, OpenGL 2.0, XNA, Win32, HLSL, GL Assembly, FMod (sound), TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, lighting, BSP, portal system, scene graphs, debugging, object-oriented programming, design patterns, calculus, linear algebra, quaternion, numerical analysis, Newtonian dynamics, movement, collisions, numerical integration, cloth simulation, spring-mass-dampener systems, rigid body motion, particle systems, XML, HTML, Visual Studio 2008, Tortoise SVN, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), UnrealEngine 3, UnrealEd