Christopher Peterson

Extremely ambitious with fast learning ability. Skilled in technical problem solving and am a great listener/learner. Passionate about learning and working with any form of code at hand. Experienced Team leader and role model. Positive attitude and determined to solve any problem. Experience with .NET Framework including Soap Web Services. Experience with User Experience & UI design, including ADA. Experience with MVC .NET Core or ASP.NET AKA website development. Experience with project onboarding and co-meetings to solve problems together.

• Starcraft Al, UAT Tempe, AZ, Software Engineer, Won an Al competition for Starcraft Broodwar using BWAPI, BWSAL, and C++. Designed a strategy so that my Al would trap other players’ Al in their own base, using Terran bunkers, and take over the map. Created Al brain class for backtracking moves and remembering where enemies have been spotted in the past. Designed and implemented a defense mode strategy for when my Al’s base became under attack.
• Lead Programmer of Moments of Sanity (Unreal Tournament 3 Engine), Mod Project, Moments of Sanity is a survival horror first person shooter game. Learned Unreal Scripting while developing the game. Designed and implemented a new health system into the game. Programmed the game so that when a player’s health becomes low, the player’s vision begins to shake, gun accuracy diminishes, vision becomes blurry, unique HUD effects, and health slowly regains. Player goes back and forth from reality mode to insanity mode while at low health. Created a new main menu using Kismet with my friend Tom. Designed and implemented a level selection screen as well as a new main menu so that player could reload their weapons, this was awesome. Scripted five new weapons using Unreal script by modifying old weapons.
• Direct3D (UAT Tempe, AZ), Created shader pipeline using Direct3d, C++, and HLSL. Imported several models in 3D space, each containing its own shader. Made 3D models spin on their axis and spawn at random locations. Implemented full camera control to zoom into models to view their specific shaders and watch them spin.
• C++ Artificial Life (UAT Tempe, AZ), Created Lindenmayer system. Created Cellular Automata. Created Genetic Algorithm. Created 2D Flocking Algorithm using XNA.
• C++ Data Structures (UAT Tempe, AZ), Created various useful graph traversal algorithms, such as Depth First and Breadth First. Knowledge of Adjacency List, Adjacency Matrix, tree, graph, various sorts, containers, Linked List, string, and Big-O Notation. Designed and implemented a cycle detection algorithm for a Bidirectional Graph.
• C++ Artificial Intelligence (UAT Tempe, AZ), Created A
• Pathfinder algorithm. Created WumpusWorld (OuterSpace theme) using DirectX/C++ and demonstrated use of fuzzy logic.
• Interview Question Generator, UAT Tempe, AZ, Software Engineer, Designed as a study tool for programming interviews. Allows users to choose from four programming languages and several categories to randomly generate an interview question. Created using C# and SQLite for the backend database.
• Co-Founder of The Programming Club at UAT (University of Advancing Technology 2008), Completed several programming tasks in a team-oriented environment. Work closely with other members by helping them become more efficient and effective coders. Create various new projects for club members to work on. Demonstrate leadership by organizing problems for individuals to solve. Taking the role of leadership has helped me develop many new team organizational skills. Organize programming competitions for all programmers to participate in. Competitions will include problems similar to that on Topcoder and help participants become better problem solvers. Post interview questions on whiteboard and let club members try to solve them for practice.