Software Engineer

Codeplay Software, Full-Time

I am currently working as a Runtime Engineer on the ComputeAorta project at Codeplay Software

Lab Associate

Disney Research Edinburgh, Full-Time

I worked at Disney Research Edinburgh under supervision of Senior Research Scientist Kenny Mitchell.

• Primarily using WebGL and Javascript to create cross-platform prototypes for presentation to other Business Units within Disney.

Mission Scripter

Rockstar North, Full-Time

Scripting missions and systems as part of the Level Design team.

• Worked as part of the Level Design team on products produced by Rockstar North.
• Primarily used RAGE Script to add functionality to existing systems, create missions and create new systems.

Assistant Demonstrator (Games Engineering)

Edinburgh Napier University, Part-Time

Helped to teach the Games Engineering practicals for the School of Computing.

• Involved teaching the use of C++ and Irrlicht for building a game engine as well as general game design techniques.
• Provided assistance to students in class to increase their understanding of the subject and helped with any problems that arose.

Student Intern

Pufferfish Displays, Part-Time

Created applications for Pufferfish’s Puffersphere device. Applications were developed using Unity3D. The Puffersphere is a spherical projector device. One such application used the Flickr API to take a group of images from the website that were in equirectangular format and then stretched them across the sphere allowing the user to swipe between them.

Assistant Demonstrator (Graphics Programming)

Edinburgh Napier University, Part-Time

Helped to teach the Introduction to Graphics Programming module practicals for the School of Computing.

• Involved teaching use of C++, OpenGL and GLSL, primarily using Visual Studio 2012 to create a 3D rendering engine and shader effects.
• Provided assistance to students in class to increase their understanding of the subject and helped with any problems that arose.

Student Intern (Data Visualisation)

Edinburgh Napier University, Part-Time

Produced data visualisations for the Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation (IIDI) displaying lecturer’s information and their published works as well as other associated information. This can be viewed on the IIDI website.

• The visualisation was created primarily using HTML, JavaScript and D3 with SQL and PHP for server side data management.

Assistant Demonstrator (Database Systems)

Edinburgh Napier University, Part-Time

Helped to teach the Database Systems module for the School of Computing with Brian Davison.

• Primary practical topics covered were SQL and Oracle DB as well as SQL Developer.

Programming Languages C, C++, C#, Java, Javascript and small amounts of HTML and PHP. Shader writing in HLSL and GLSL. Knowledge of SQL.

APIs and Libraries Working knowledge of OpenGL, OpenCL, GLM, DirectX, and D3.

Parallel Computing Familiar with parallel computing technologies, particularly OpenMP, MPI, DirectCompute, OpenCL and Geometry Shaders (HLSL/GLSL) and C++11 threads.

Version Control Working knowledge of GIT and P4 for versioning software.

Tools Knowledge of OracleDB and MySQL for database management. Unity3D, Visual Studio and Eclipse for applications developement.

Software Engineering Concepts Object Oriented Design, Software Design Patterns, Human Computer Interaction, Multithreaded Computer Models.

MSc. Pervasive Parallelism

Edinburgh University

Studied Pervasive Parallelism on a MSc course supervised by Taku Komura and funded by EPSRC. My thesis project is titled "Parallel Relationship Descriptors for Real-time Motion Adaptation". My primary focus was on optimising a method for motion retargetting so that it can be performed in real-time. This project made use of C++, OpenGL and OpenCL with the technique being optimised for GPGPU. My work during this time was published as part of a paper in Motion in Games 2015.

BSc. Honours Games Engineering

Edinburgh Napier University

Studied Games Engineering at Edinburgh Napier University. Achieved first class honours, Lawrence Ho award and Univeristy Class Medal

Modules

• Personal Project - (C++, DirectX and HLSL)
• Group Project - (Unity3D and C#)
• Software Development 2 and 3 - (C#)
• Introduction to Graphics Programming - (C++ and OpenGL)
• Games Engineering – (C++ and Irrlicht)
• Softare Engineering - (JAVA)
• Fundamentals of Parallel Systems - (Groovy)
• Software Engineering Methods
• Database Systems - (Oracle DB and MySQL)
• Algorithms and Data Structures

Ross High School

Scottish Highers

• English - A
• Computing - B
• Maths - B
• Physics - B
• Drama - B
• Chemistry - C