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Brossard, Canada

• DayTrader Canada is an independent firm of experienced trader analysts offering specialized services and training courses on active investment through online and onsite courses to active investors and traders.
• Built the architecture of a cloud based web application, with pattern recognition algorithms and data visualization, used by retail investors to find trading opportunities on the financial markets.
• Integration of an open source e-commerce solution that manages sales of the company's courses and services' subscriptions
• Managed teams of local and off-shore (India) consultants.
• Used several technologies such as Microsoft Azure, ASP.net, SQL Server, Entity Framework, Web API, Xaml/C#
• Integration of a market data provider

Montreal, Canada Area

• Developed a software rasterizer used to generate the profile image of millions of Halo 3 players. This project was cloud based and ran on Microsoft Azure.
• Graphics and Kinect developer on XBox 360 for Halo Waypoint
• Developed several graphics features such as cascaded shadow maps in a proprietary 3D engine
• Graphics and gameplay development on a MMORPG game called Monkey Quest using the Unity 3D engine

Montreal, Canada Area

• Concept and game design creation of an original Xbox Live Arcade/PC game
• In charge of 3D Rendering, Animation, Physics and Content Pipeline (supporting xsi and fbx file format) on a game engine using XNA and.Net Framework
• C#

Montreal, Canada Area

• Research and development on a animation synthesis system using hierarchical finite state machines and creation of AI behaviors using that system.
• Conception and development of a parametric animation system using FonctionCurves
• C++/Javascript/Qt framework

Quebec, Canada

• Conception and development of a AI code generator based on a set of logic rules written in natural language
• Prototype development using the Source engine (Half-Life 2)
• C++

Quebec, Canada

• 3D rendering engine development
• AI engine development (pathfinding, NLP)
• Development of text to 3D animation (text-to-scene) technology
• C++

Montreal, Canada Area

• Gameplay, Physics, AI, UI on the following titles: Kasparov Chessmate, Jamdat NHL, TopSpin Tennis, Jamdat Bowling 3D
• Worked on a C++ to Java translation tool
• Worked on a 3D software renderer for Brew phones
• Java (J2ME) & C++ (Brew)

Montreal, Canada Area

• Gameplay and localization development on several games for multiple phone platforms.
• Java (J2ME)

Montreal, Canada Area

• Development on Softimage XSI's 3D computer graphics software in Realtime Shaders, Crosswalk SDK and the dotXSI file format
• C++

Montreal, Canada Area

• Development on a UI menu system and gameplay for the games Batman:Vengeance and Tarzan:Untamed on the PS2 and Gamecube
• C++, proprietary scripting language

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Specialized in multimedia and computer graphics.

Dec Degree, Pure Sciences