Implemented Deep Shadow Maps on the GPU for use in Rhythm & Hues proprietary animation system Voodoo. This allowed the artists to see shadow changes in real-time instead of having to send their assets through the rendering pipeline.

Worked as a student researcher on comparing standard and novel techniques for screen space ambient occlusion techniques for publication.

Worked as a researcher on a team developing new global illumination algorithms for ray tracing. Helped develop Bayesian integration techniques for global illumination by performing experiments using Matlab and proprietary rendering engines.

Worked as a software engineer to create a regression performance testing suite for the CG runtime. Created a C++ test harness using OpenGL and DirectX 9 that ran CG and CGFX files to measure the performance of the CG runtime libraries. Included Python reporting capabilities which created gnuplot files to measure and compare performance results

Worked as a Teaching Assitant for CS5610/CS6610 (OpenGL) and CS 2420 (Computer Science II - Java). Responsible for helping students with assignments during office hours as well as lecturing during discussion sections.

Working for the Tools and Technology group extending and maintaining a domain specific language, called Domain, used for medical grouping and billing. Includes a compiler, code generators for C, Java, Basic Assembler, and our own back end using a format called .Knowledge Bases.. Also responsible for creating a nightly build/test solution for programs using said language.

Worked as a test engineer on International Coding and Grouping software. Responsible for manual testing and the creation of automated tests for COM+ based software in multiple languages.

Worked as a programmer porting development tools (pre-processor, make, and a shell) from the Windows environment to Linux.

Worked as a programmer using Visual Basic and C++ to automate e-mail processes. Created e-mail scheduling programs and a program to automatically insert e-mails into an automated system based on SQL query statements.

Ran the Application Test Program (ATP) for the visual simulator system Ensemble™. Duties included installing the program on multiple machines and submitting bug reports.

Worked as a consultant doing on-the-spot web pages and small JavaScript programs dealing with fax and e-mail broadcasting. Web pages were done using Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks, JavaScript was also used

Programmed the SIRS Navigator, a Windows desktop application (created in Visual Basic) used by clients to browse the results of a compensation survey, view job data graphically, and generate job-pricing reports to support compensation planning and decision making.