Jordan Shaw

e-Mail: jshaw@thenewt.com
ICQ#: 13377594
The glow of my screen,
Vertices placed carefully;
Digital life grows

Objective
  • To make games, starting at any position available to me, and work towards being a character and environment artist. To be the best artist I can be, and make great games.

Skills
  • 3d modeling using 3D Studio MAX revisions 1.x to 3x, 3dsmax 4.x
  • Some painting in Photoshop 6, Painter 7
  • Experience with the UVW mapping process, using MAX 3 and 4
  • Recent modeling using Wings3d
  • Just Another Perl Hacker
  • 2 Years CGI programming using Perl
  • Limited Programming in C
  • Installed and currently adminstrate a FreeBSD/MS Windows network, using NAT, HTML proxy caching, web server administration, remote administration, and rules-based firewalls
  • Experienced in Linux and FreeBSD administration

Experience
  • April, 2003 -> January, 2004:
    Designed and implemented a SQL-powered website for use by Tim Hortons franchises, to expedite ordering of goods between stores. Written in Perl.
    Currently rolling out to production
  • Jun 28, 2002 -> Dec, 2002:
    Developed and implemented a database for the online display of listings information on a realty website, and a web-based control system for the updating of data in the database, using Perl on a Linux system running the Apache web server.
    Currently in production, can be viewed running at
    http://www.c21portage.com/
  • April 29, 2002 -> July 1, 2002:
    Modeler. Chronos V : http://www.chronosthegame.com/. Responsibilities included:
    • Low poly modeling
    • Working from Concept Art to provide high-quality game meshes

Current Personal Projects
  • Compiler theory, eventually culminating in a (hopefully) working Common LISP interpreter, written in C
  • A GameBoy Advance puzzle game
  • Various paintings, using Photoshop 6.0
  • A graphic novel, currently in the planning stages
  • Various Perl modules for my CGI projects

Personal Skills
  • A valuable member of any team
  • Able to function independently with minimal supervision
  • Expresses ideas in a clear and concise manner
  • Pressure does not hinder quality of work

Education
  • High School Graduate, Feb. 1999 - W.G. Murdoch School, Crossfield, Alberta, Canada

Hobbies (In no particular order)
  • Reading (Sci-fi, Fantasy)
  • Writing (Sci-fi, Fantasy, free verse poetry)
  • Badminton
  • 3D modeling
  • Drawing, doodling, etc.
  • Gaming, gaming, and more gaming.
  • Coding handy little apps
  • Researching anything of interest
  • Collecting older, non-x86 computers
  • Learning. About anything.


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