Kevin Gadd
http://luminance.org/	kevin.gadd@gmail.com

Summary

I am a generalist programmer/designer with a desire to tell engrossing stories through video games and a willingness to do whatever is necessary: writing tools, designing content or coordinating development.

Employment History

ArenaNet 10/09 - Present
Associate Producer

• Coordinated tools development, audio and design efforts along with producers and leads.
• Drove design processes for critical tools, and game systems.
• Worked with other producers to establish schedules, set milestones, and eliminate waste.
• Worked with QA and tools teams to research, track and prioritize issues.

Squared Interactive 11/08 - Present
Sole Proprietor

• Writing, design and programming for a 2D side-scrolling action game, Inferus [http://infer.us/]. Won first and third place in Intel’s Level Up 2009 competition.
• Built a multithreaded game engine along with tools for content creation and data collection.
• Recruited and managed contractors responsible for art and sound direction.

IMVU 6/07 - 6/09
Software Engineer

• Built components of the IMVU Client's 3D renderer, UI and other features in C++, Flex, and Python.
• Built, maintained, optimized and debugged complex asynchronous systems.
• Found and fixed obscure crashes in application code, system libraries, and drivers.
• Created and maintained web frontend and backend services in PHP and JavaScript.
• Created and refined testing and build tools for continuous integration in PHP and Python.
• Built COLLADA model importer for the IMVU Previewer content creation tool.

ArenaNet
12/06 - 6/07 Engine / Tools Programmer
12/05 - 12/06 Game Designer

• Developed a revision controlled content framework that integrated with existing tools like MediaWiki and Excel, based on MySQL and C#.
• Overhauled the cinematics system to allow for editing and previewing without recompiles, and built a graphical editor.
• Responsible for designing and scripting quests, missions, towns, cinematics and over-world areas.
• Created design tools including an indexed search tool for game content, script editor with validation/highlighting, and a toolset for analyzing game data and generating reports.

Other Experience

• Built a C# library that provides a co-routine scheduler and efficient concurrency primitives.
  http://code.google.com/p/fracture
• Built a high-performance code search tool in C# called NDexer.
  http://code.google.com/p/ndexer
• Created a game engine called Fury² along with tools, documentation and demos.
  http://sf.net/projects/fury2