My Resume Aleksander Stompel E-mail: astompel@4dblue.com WWW: www.4dblue.com Objective: To pursue professional interests in a career position in the 3D Animation industry. Education: Master of Science, Computer Science. University of California, Davis, September 2003. Graduate GPA: 3.92 Master’s Thesis: SLIC - Scheduled Linear Image Compositing Algorithm for Parallel Volume Rendering. Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Engineering. University of California, Davis, March 2002. Graduated with Highest Honors Undergraduate Cumulative GPA: 3.86 / 4.00 (19 A+) Undergraduate Major GPA: 3.95 / 4.00 (12 A+) Relevant Coursework - Graduate Level Computer Animation (prof. Nelson Max, A) Advanced Computer Graphics (prof. Kwan-Liu Ma, A+) Principles of Virtual Reality (prof. Ken Joy, Falko Kuester, A) Advanced Visualization (prof. Bernd Hamann, A+) Distributed Operating System Models (prof. Felix Wu, A) Relevant Skills: Programming Languages: C/C++/C#, Java, Pascal, 80x86 and MIPS Assembly Languages, Pixel & Vertex Shader languages. Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Windows/NT. APIs: OpenGL, Direct3D, MPI. Scientific Visualization skills: Isosurface generation, Volumetric Rendering, Particle Systems, NPR techniques. Tools: MS Visual Studio, P4, DevTrack, 3DS Max, Maya, Photoshop. Other: HTML, Java Servlets, Flash, SQL Databases, TCP/IP, Distributed Computing, UI Design. Work Experience: May 2004 - Present. Independent developer, founder of “4D Blue” - company devoted to developing simple, yet complete, 3D modeling, animation, and rendering software for small development companies and 3D graphics amateurs around the world. (http://www.4dblue.com/) July 2003 - May 2004. Software Engineer. Electronic Arts - Maxis. - UI Design and implementation. - 3DS Max plugins maintance and enhancements. - Production tools design, implementation, and maintance. December 2000 – July 2003. Research Assistant. CIPIC - Visualization and Graphics Research Group. UC Davis. - Scientific Visualization – Isosurfaces, Volumetric Rendering, Particle Systems, NPR techniques. - Parallel techniques for volume rendering and image compositing (16 – 512 nodes) - Hardware Accelerated real-time volume rendering. July 2001 – September 2001. Microsoft Intern – Software Design Engineer in Test. - Implementing automated test suites for Direct3D. - Implementing D3D API call logger. Publications: Aleksander Stompel, Falko Kuester, and Ken Joy. “VUI - Towards Intuitive User Interface Design for Virtual Reality Environments”. Presented at the UC Davis Student Workshop for Computing, 2001. Aleksander Stompel, Eric Lum, and Kwan-Liu Ma. “Feature-Enhanced Visualization of Multidimensional, Multivariate Volume Data Using Non-photorealistic Rendering Techniques”. Presented at the UC Davis Student Workshop for Computing, 2002. Eric Lum, Aleksander Stompel, and Kwan-Liu Ma. “Motion-Based Shape Illustration” Presented at the SIGGRAPH 2002 Sketches and Applications. Aleksander Stompel, Eric Lum, and Kwan-Liu Ma. “Feature-Enhanced Visualization of Multidimensional, Multivariate Volume Data Using Non-photorealistic Rendering Techniques”. Proceedings of the Pacific Graphics 2002 Conference. Eric Lum, Aleksander Stompel, and Kwan-Liu Ma. “Kinetic Visualization”. Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization 2002 Conference. Eric Lum, Aleksander Stompel, and Kwan-Liu Ma. “Kinetic Visualization” (extended version) Published in IEEE TVCG 2003. Aleksander Stompel, Kwan-Liu Ma, Eric Lum, J. Ahrens, and J. Patchett. “SLIC: Scheduled Linear Image Compositing for Parallel Volume Rendering”. Proceedings of Parallel Visualization and Graphics 2003 Conference. Aleksander Stompel, Kwan-Liu Ma, J. Bielak, O. Ghattas, and E. Kim. “Visualizing Large-Scale Earthquake Simulations”. Proceedings of the Supercomputing 2003 Conference. Honors & Awards: Department Citation Winner (2002). Regents Scholarship at the University of California, Davis. CRA Award Nominee (2001). References: Kwan-Liu Ma Professor CIPIC - Visualization and Computer Graphics Research Group Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis Email: ma@cs.ucdavis.edu Bernd Hamann Professor Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Co-Director, CIPIC CIPIC - Visualization and Computer Graphics Research Group Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis Email: hamann@cs.ucdavis.edu Schipano Nick Sr. Software Engineer Electronic Arts - Maxis Email: nschipano@maxis.com Ted Hung Software Engineer Electronic Arts - Maxis Email: thung@maxis.com Download the MS Word file here:

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