Jack Kern

I graduated from DigiPen in 2007 and immediately found a job working for a lead video game development studio. I have over a year of professional programming experience along with my specialized education in video game programming. I have experience in a variety of languages and I believe that it is important to choose the correct language to get the job done.

General:	C++, C, C#, Java, Processing
Web:	PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Technology, Libraries & API's:    Containers & Algorithms:    Windows Related:    Graphics:    Sound:    Physics:    Mobile:	STL, Some boost MFC, ATL, COM, CodeJock, Win32, Winsock DirectX, OpenGL, HLSL(Shaders) DirectSound, FMOD Agea's PhysX SDK J2ME, MIDP1.0, MIDP2.0
Data Structures and Rendering:    Arrays, Linked Lists, Stacks, Queues,    Maps, Hash Tables, Hash Maps    Binary Space Partition, Quad & Oct Trees    Software Rasterization:    Ray Tracing:    Rendering Optimizations:	Bilinear Filtering, Mip Mapping Phong Shading, Reflection, Refraction Dynamic Occlusion Mapping
Technologies:    Compression:    Sound:    Collision Detection:    Physics:	RLE, JPEG, Huffman Coding FFT, DFT Intersections Between: Line Segment, Ray, Plane, Triangle, Sphere Wrote a small physics engine for a 3D game project (Sphere polygon collision & resolution)
Misc Computer Science Knowledge:    Algorithm Analysis    Computer Graphics    File Formats    Networking    Operating Systems	BMP, JPEG, XML, etc..
Math:	Algebra, Trig, Linear Algebra, Calculus, Quaternions, Curves and Surfaces
Known Applications:    IDE's:    Plugins:    Source Control:    Office:    Design, Web & Graphics:	Microsoft Visual Studio v6.0 - v9.0, Eclipse Visual Assist, Incredibuild Perforce, Tortoise SVN, CVS Word, Excel, Powerpoint Photoshop, Paint.Net, DreamWeaver, Wings3D