Resume of Jason De Arte

Yorba Linda, CA 92886 – Jason.DeArte@gmail.com – cell: +1.714.91.JASON

Answers to Common Questions

Desired Job            Write windows client/server software in C++ using MFC/ATL/WTL/COM in DevStudio.NET

Desired Title           Senior Software Engineer / C++ Software Engineer / C++ Programmer / Toymaker / Code Monkey

Career Level              8 Years, mid-senior level/experienced

Industry                     Consumer Video Game

Current Region       Orange County, Southern California, ~20 minutes from Disneyland (less in good traffic)

Citizenship             USA – Southern California Native

Terms                     Full Time, Permanent, in office or telecommute

Culture                   Strong teamwork environment with a desire to make a quality product.

Direct Sunlight         No thank you

Code Samples           Links to non-NDA infringing code samples I’ve written - http://1001010.com/code.shtml

Interviews.                Please, only after a phone screen by a member of your technical staff.  Why waste a flight if we don’t have to ;-)

Availability                OFF THE MARKET AND UNAVAILABLE AT THIS TIME this resume is here for historical purposes

Skills

Individual Skill

Current Level†

Years Used

First Used

Last Used

 

Individual Skill

Current Level†

Years Used

First Used

Last Used

C/C++

Expert

8

1997

Current

 

Python

Advanced

1

2005

Current

Win32

Expert

8

1997

Current

 

JavaScript

Advanced

1

2005

Current

Visual C++

Expert

8

1997

Current

 

Mozilla/XUL

Advanced

1

2005

Current

ATL/COM/WTL

Expert

5

2000

Current

 

Delphi

Rusty

2

1998

2000

MFC

Expert

8

1997

Current

 

Turbo Pascal

Rusty

2

1992

1994

ActiveX controls

Expert

4

2001

Current

 

InstallShield 5.x

Advanced

2

1996

1998

STL

Advanced

6

1999

Current

 

Wise Installer

Advanced

2

2002

2004

VSS

Expert

8

1997

Current

 

Nullsoft (NSIS) Installer

Expert

2

2002

Current

C#

Novice

1

2004

2004

 

Pocket PC

Advanced

1

2001

2002

Threading

Advanced

4

2000

Current

 

DOS to XP

Expert

17

1988

Current

GameSpy Matchmaking

Expert

5

2000

2005

 

Linux

Advanced

1

2005

Current

ServerBrowsing/Reporting

Expert

5

2000

2005

 

DirectPlay Matchmaking

Advanced

3

2001

2004

GameSpy IM/Chat

Expert

5

2000

2005

 

DirectSound

Advanced

1

2003

2003

Internet explorer toolbars

Advanced

3

2001

2004

 

Calm tech support voice

Advanced

2

1995

1997

TCP/IP

Advanced

4

2000

2004

 

CGI Scripts

Rusty

1

2004

2004

Visual Basic 1-3

Rusty

3

1991

1994

 

Visual Basic DOS 1.0

Rusty

2

1992

1994

Count in binary on fingers

Geek

 

 

 

 

Analyze Barcodes

Geek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

† Terms: Geek(only useful at parties), Novice (<50%), Intermediate/Rusty(50%-79%), Advanced (80%-89%), and Expert (90%-100%)

Employment History

Undisclosed Video Game Company, Irvine CA                                                     October 2005-Current

10/2005
current

Senior Software Engineer – Team 2: Live Operations

Wow, I bet you’d love to know who it is & I’m not going to tell you ;-)

 

 

Penson / Nexa Technologies, Irvine CA                                                       August 2005-October 2005

08/2005
10/2005

Software Engineer – Custom Engineering

Member of the development staff, create customized versions the AxisPro and RadiusPro stock market trading clients for major US and word wide securities trading firms.  C++ and Qt development.

 

 

Codeit Computing LLC, Irvine CA                                                                     January 2005-July 2005

01/2005
07/2005

Software Engineer

Member of the Juncture development team.  Writing a 3-tier CRM solution for the mortgage brokerage industry.  Developing on Linux for a cross platform Win32/Linux/OSX Mozilla client using XUL, Java, JavaScript, Python, CORBA, and SOAP/WSDL.

 

 

IGN/GameSpy office in Irvine CA                                                               October 1999-January 2005

03/2004
01/2005

Desktop Software Engineer

IGN Entertainment

In March of 2004 GameSpy Industries merged with one of it’s leading competitors “IGN.com” (Previously known as Snowball).  My title was depreciated, I received a 16% salary increase, and my responsibilities remained the same.

10/1999
03/2004

Senior Software Engineer / Toymaker

GameSpy Industries

Projects

·   Lead Programmer – FilePlanet Download Manager (ActiveX COM) Control and (Win32) Client Application

·   Lead Programmer – GameSpy Arcade 2.01

·   Staff Programmer – GameSpy Arcade v.3 thru 2.0

·   Did you know that during my tenure working on GameSpy Arcade, it had 15.8 Million Unique installs?

·   Lead Programmer – GameSpy Toolbar for Internet Explorer (an ActiveX/ATL/WTL BHO Google toolbar clone)

·   Lead Programmer – LANSpy, an unofficial in house tool for finding game servers in the office

·   Staff Programmer – Xbox Tunnel, a GameSpy Arcade add-on that allowed internet play of LAN-only Xbox games

·   Lead Maintenance Programmer – GameSpy3D

·   Lead Maintenance Programmer – Roger Wilco

·   Creator of many proof-of-concepts that never saw the light of day (thus the unofficial title of Toymaker)

·   Development QA of many of the GameSpy SDKs as they were integrated in the above projects.

Buzzwords / Technologies / Skills

·   I18N & L10N – worked to make software projects Internationalization & Localization ready for the translation team

·   Experienced with full product lifecycles

·   Created Automated Crash reporting systems (unhandled exception handler) for consumer software

·   Self Starter, Enjoys Teamwork Environments

·   Software Profiling & Optimization

·   Familiar with protecting and reviewing code for buffer overrun vulnerabilities

·   Strong Software Problem solving skills

·   Solid understanding of multiplayer game matchmaking

·   Experience with instant messaging technologies

·   Focused on Windows client (Win32) software

·   Custom UI / Ownerdraw controls

·   Windows Shell Integration  -  Shell Namespace, Shell Extension & Search Handlers

·   VC6/C++/MFC/ATL/WTL/STL/COM

·   Internet Explorer Add-ons, ActiveX controls, BHO’s – Browser Helper Objects

·   Wise & Nullsoft Installer Scripting

 

 

Zenographics, Irvine CA                                                                              August 1998-October 1999

08/1998
10/1999

Programmer

·   Programmer – Universal SuperPrint driver un/install tool

·   Programmer – Graphical printer status monitor

·   Maintain legacy raw SDK “C” installer for Win32s

·   Install Shield  5.x installers

·   VC 1.52 / VC 4.2

·   Win16/Win32s/Win9x/NT4

 

 

Touchstone Software Corporation, Huntington Beach CA                                 April 1996-August 1998

02/1997
08/1998

Development QA Tester / Build Engineer

·   Create UI Prototype Applications

·   Write C++ based CD-ROM “AutoRun” applications

·   Write InstallShield 3/5.x(international) installers

·   Source control management

·   Create daily builds for testing

·   Burn Gold Masters for CD duplication

·   Test Software

·   Enforce regression test procedures in QA department

·   Create and Maintain Visual Test automated testing scripts

·   Create and Maintain Daily Build Scripts

04/1996
02/1997

Technical Support

Telephone technical support of PC-cillin95 Anti-Virus, CheckIt, WinCheckIt, Win95 Advisor, FastMove! & e.Support.

 

 

Smith Micro Software, Aliso Viejo CA                                                                   April 1995-April 1996

04/1995
04/1996

Technical Support

Retail end support of HotFax, HotFax Menu, HotPage, HotLine, HotDisk, and CrossConnect.  OEM end user support of the Quick Link II family of Data / Fax / Voice telecommunications products for DOS, Windows 3.1x,/95,/NT 3.51, & Macintosh platforms

Affiliations

1/2003 – Present IDGA (International Game Developers Association) member

Professional References

Contact information available by request only

·        Phil McDonnell – V.P. of Engineering at Zenographics

·        Scott Robertson – Founder / Lead Programmer of CodeIt Computing LLC

·        Patrick Ford – Director of Video Game Products at Yahoo!, former VP of Marketing at GameSpy

·        Brian Gibson-Winge –former supervisor and Sr. Software Engineer at IGN/GameSpy

·        Daniel Schoenblum – Lead SDK Software Engineer at IGN/GameSpy