Sven Knutson Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

As a senior engine programmer I cover many engine systems, including animation, physics and collaborate with design to implement gameplay systems. My main specialization is physics which ranges from rigid body dynamics to particle hydrodynamics and finite element analysis.

Irvine, Ca, Us

I have experience with Havok, PhysX, Bullet middleware as well as writing custom physics solutions outside of middleware for our Onyx engine technology. I also work in other areas of the engine including animation, save load and general troubleshooting.Dungeon Siege 3 (Shipped)Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC• Core engine programmer and sole owner of physics within the Onyx engine. Refactored the animation and save load systems. Interfaced daily with game programmers, designers and artists about memory and performance issues relating to physics, animation, actor movement and save load operations. Heavily involved in TRC/TCR fixes for all systems.Fallout: New Vegas (Shipped)Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC• Performed troubleshooting on audio related issues as well as loading and performance problems for the Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms.Alpha Protocol (Shipped)Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC• Resolved performance and memory related bugs to bring the project through certification.Aliens RPG (Cancelled)Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC• Sole physics programmer on the engine team. I addressed memory and performance issues from poorly authored physics assets as well as improving movement pipe stability and accuracy for characters and NPCs.

Dallas, Texas, Us

I was the Software Lead on Dissonance, a real time strategy game done in the Source Engine that used a music theme and music gameplay elements to create a unique experience.I was faculty selected to be lead for this project. I handled all animations in this game for over 10 different models. I also supported the animation artists to help facilitate better understanding of the art pipeline as it pertains to the needs of the game engine.

Dallas, Texas, Us

I was an engineer on the Sacrifice in Paradise project, an Unreal 2004 mod that is a unique race between competitors to see who could first reach the top of the volcano to sacrifice themselves to their god Steve.My tasks included working on the mask system that the racers used throughout the game to influence other racers and to gain a leg up in the competition. I also assisted on the Uluuk system, which is a gameplay element that allowed racers to become evil and steal points from other players in an attempt to gain higher standing in the race.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Software Engineer for S.HDSL, HDSL, HDSL2 and VDSL technologies. I worked with both microchip manufacturers to integrate their firmware into our sourcecode as well as implemented new features from their design specs into our system. I also supported other teams in troubleshooting software issues in our operating system TAOS as it pertained to the symmetrical modem technologies.

Ms, Software Development

Bs, Applied Mathematics