My main areas of interest lie in Real-Time Computer Graphics, Real-Time Physics Simulations, and Artificial Intelligence. I have been programming since Grade II, and I have been self-taught in these fields, as well as video game programming, since Grade III. These skills can be applied to any real-time graphics application, as well as to high accuracy, non real-time products.

My other general skills involve video game design, graphic engine design, and GUI design - and the implementation of each. I am also very skilled in programming code and algorithmic optimizations. I have superior debugging abilities due to my pure logical understanding of any problem I am working on, which makes me an efficient programmer.

I have all around skills involving entertainment software. I understand them well from many diverse aspects - from an amateur gamer's perspective (the majority of a game's audience), to an expert's level (the people games are truly made for), to the programmers' and designers' view. I can analyze a game and understand its flaws from various end users' views, which many designers and expert game testers overlook. I also have the debugging ability to correct bugs properly, and possess the foresight to avoid these types of mistakes before implementation.

I would like to pursue a career in interactive entertainment / simulation software which will allow me to push the envelope of home computers in all of my fields of interest. It is my aspiration to become a video game programmer / video game designer, either by joining an existing company or using the funding from my own initiatives to start my own game development studio. My skills can be applied to any console / computer system. I have extensive abilities and unique tweaks and ideas for 2D systems, such as PDA devices and the Game Boy Advance (GBA). I can showcase my talent best with these systems.

• Acadia University
  Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Graduated with Bachelor of Computer Science.
  Achieved a 4.00 / 4.00 cumulative GPA in all Mathematics courses.
  Achieved a 3.87 / 4.00 cumulative GPA in all Computer Science courses.
  Achieved a 3.78 / 4.00 cumulative GPA in all Physics courses.
  Achieved a 3.77 / 4.00 cumulative final GPA.
  Full Acadia University Transcripts available.
  Made the Dean's List.
  
  
• Centre of Geographic Sciences (formerly College of Geographic Sciences)
  Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Graduated with a Computer Programming Technician certificate.
  Achieved a 97.4% (4.00 / 4.00 GPA) midterm average, 92.6% (4.00 / 4.00 GPA) final average.
  
  
• Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School
  Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Graduated with Honours.
  Achieved a 91% average with my courses concentrated in Mathematics and Sciences.
  
  

• Home / Self Teaching
  Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Over 95% of my online showcased programs were developed at home.
  I taught myself how to program in the BASIC programming language in Grade II, at the age of seven. This occurred without the luxury of owning my own personal computer. I learned very quickly on a single VIC-20 available in my classroom at school, and on the TRS-80's that Radio Shack had on display at the time. As you can imagine, I did not have much time to use such machines. There were no computer rooms in elementary schools back then (the VIC-20 was available only because my Grade II teacher sold them through her home business). My parents bought my brother and me a TI-99/4A a year later, in Grade III (for the cheap price of $50 CAD, presumably because TI left the home computer market after reporting $430 million in losses). I have been self taught in programming and computer graphics ever since. I have only had the privilege to attend two computer graphics courses during my college and university education. Unfortunately, one only taught basic pixel plotting methods that I learned during elementary school, and the other barely touched upon basic 3D transformations, which I had already learned by high school.
  
  

The following are results of several Canadian Mathematics Competitions, American Mathematics Competitions, and Provincial Physics and Chemistry competitions. Please note that the grade schools I attended in Yarmouth (Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School and Maple Grove Education Centre) did not have specialized classes to review past competition tests, nor did we take time out of our curriculum to study / prepare for the competitions, as is done in the majority of the top placing schools. Upon seeing the results of the top placing students in my province, I often found that I was ranked high among a class full of students from a particular school that allocates an entire course solely for preparation of such tests. This gives their class an obvious, distinct advantage over students like me who have no knowledge or idea of any potential content within upcoming competitions.

Most of the tests are structured in multiple choice format with four possible answers; incorrect answers are worth -1/3^rd of the question's value (that is, you lose points if you answer incorrectly), and a blank answer is worth 0. This eliminates the possibility of scoring points for guessing. The logic behind this scheme is as follows: If a student randomly guesses all answers, assuming questions are worth X points, he will get ¾^ths of the test incorrect (-1/3 * X points per question), and ¼^th correct (X points per question), resulting in a mark of 0, since the above two evenly cancel each other out (the points gained for every correct answer is cancelled by the points lost for three incorrect answers).

Also note that, while the number of participating students may seem small, only the top students were allowed to participate. Because of the difficulty of these tests, the poorest fairing students of this elite group occasionally achieve a below zero score, meaning they would have faired better had they left the test with no questions answered, due to the penalties of incorrect answers.

Also included are my other achievements in high school and in junior high.

Highest Standing in Science Math 431
(Note: The final exam was rather long, and had bonus questions which enabled a student to obtain a mark over 100%. In response to a student's request of what would happen if a student received over 100%, the teacher [Richard MacKinnon - recipient of The LaJune Naud Award for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching - now with Nova Scotia's Department of Education] stated that it had never happened before, and it would not happen. I got 108% on the exam, and my brother, Matthew Doucette, got the second highest mark at 90%. The remaining marks were from low 80's to well under the passing mark of 50%. Because the exam was abnormally difficult, the teacher scaled everyone's mark up 5.555% (the value required to bring Matthew's 90% to 95%). This would have brought my mark to 114%, but he believed I only deserved 100% (changing the 18% difference from 1st to 2nd highest mark to only 5%). Since the final exam was worth 50% of the final mark, the extra 14% taken away from my final mark resulted in a final mark 7% lower than what it should have been in comparison to my peers.)

Grade 11 Fermat Math Contest - Canadian Mathematics Competition
(I almost had a perfect mark on this test. The test was split into three sections. The first section consisted of ten easy questions, the second section had ten moderate questions, and the third had five extremely difficult questions. As is typical, I spent the majority of the three hours allotted on the last five questions. I answered every question with full confidence that my answers were correct, with the sole exception of question #25, the last question on the exam. I could not arrive at an answer. The next day, my physics teacher, Mr. Burton, asked me what the final question was. During my explanation I discovered the method to solve it, and then proceeded to solve it. Immediately upon arriving home, I wrote a computer program to confirm the solution.)

Principal Member of Technical Staff
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Block Storage

Software Development Engineer
Amazon Game Studios

Software Development Engineer
Fire Phone - Amazon Maps (Dynamic Perspective)

Software Development Engineer
Fire Phone - Entertainment & Games Group
Also helped with the Home Screen and SDK.

Video Game Developer
My brother, Matthew Doucette, and I started a video game development company with the idea to enter Duality ZF into the Dream Build Play 2008 world wide competition with a 2-month alpha build of the game. We entered but didn't place, presumably since the game was not complete; it was only a single level. We entered the Dream Build Play 2009 the following year, and quickly after the Dream Build Play 2010 (as it was moved from late in the year 2009 to early in the year 2010). We placed 7th in the world in 2009 and 5th in the world in 2010. The game is still under development, with time off for it to produce a few smaller titles (Decimation X, Decimation X2, Decimation X3, and Score Rush), and is planning on being released on Xbox LIVE Arcade, PSN, and Steam.

Non-profit
Started a technology blog, Xona.com. It has achieved 500,000 raw page views within its first year. Xona.com is a second priority, behind Project X, so relatively little effort has been placed into it, so far. Upon completion of Project X, I hope to grow it further.

Entrepreneur
I commenced work on a revolutionary computer graphics technology.

This project has been put on hold due to our involvement in the video game industry, with our new company, Xona Games. We would like to return to this project in the future at some point to finalize it, but even if that never happens, we've learned a world of information regarding developing high quality, large scale software.

Self Employed
My brother, Matthew Doucette, and I worked on an interactive entertainment software development project, Evolutionary Prototype. The project has been placed on hold to explore greater opportunities.

Incubation Center Staff
Helped to set up and commence an incubation center at NSCC's Burridge Campus.

• Speedcubing. I can solve a Rubik's Cube in under 15 seconds:
  
  
  
  
• Member of the YMCA.
  
  
• Was involved in intramural basketball at Y.C.M.H.S., the College of Geographic Sciences, and Acadia University.
  
  
• Organized a 4 on 4 basketball tournament at the College of Geographic Sciences.
  
  
• Was a member of the Yarmouth Minor Hockey League.
  
  

• Hobbies include playing sports (basketball, hockey, etc.), canoeing, playing intellectually stimulating games (chess, othello, checkers, etc.), listening to music, problem solving, reading and learning.

• Computer Programming. The following links are also available as links off of my main page:
  
  1. Projects / Games - my major programming projects
     
  2. Computer Graphics - my individual real-time graphic effects, software rendered
     
  3. Artificial Intelligence - game playing A.I.
     
  
  

• More Computer Programming. Having an interest in numerical patterns, I have broken a couple of mathematical records via computer programs. A program I created in hand optimized assembly code currently holds the world record for the Longest Delayed Palindromic Number. Another program once held the world record for furthest computation of the 196 Palindrome Quest (my work has been passed onto others to continue the quest). Please visit my World Records page for more information.

• I am the founding member of the demo group / real-time interactive simulation (video game) software developer Saw Tooth Distortion. Our latest project, Evolutionary Prototype, was placed on hold due to the arrival of greater opportunities.

Hardware:

• x86
• Xbox 360
• Windows Phone 7

Programming Languages:

• C# / .NET Framework
• XNA Game Studio
• C++ with OOP (Object Oriented Programming) (MS-DOS, Win32 Console and Windows Applications)
• Python
• x86 Assembly Language (Real Mode, Flat Mode, Protected Mode)
• Turbo Pascal 5.5 - 7.0 with Object Oriented Programming (Real Mode, Flat Mode)
• TMT Pascal (32-bit Protected Mode)
• Borland Pascal 7.0
• Visual Basic 6.0, .NET
• TI BASIC
• TI Extended Basic
• GW-BASIC
• Q-BASIC
• QuickBASIC
• Java
• JavaScript
• ANSI C
• Perl / CGI / CSS
• PHP
• LISP
• Prolog
• SQL
• Modula-2
• FORTRAN 77, 90
• CA-dBFast 2.0
• shell scripts
• DOS Batch files
• HTML
• XML
• DHTML
• etc.

Operating Systems:

• Windows Phone 7
• Xbox 360
• Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, ME, NT, XP, Vista, 7
• MS-DOS 3.2 - 6.22, 7.0, all Windows versions
• Mac OS 5.0 - 8.1, OS X
• Unix
• Linux
• RedHat
• VAX/VMS
• X-Windows
• etc.
  

Applications:

• Server
  • Apache HTTP Server
• Graphic Design
  • CorelDraw
  • Paint Shop Pro
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Jih-Shin Ho's Display
  • Windows Paint
  • Avid Cinema
  • Tiled Map Editor
• Compilers / IDEs
  • Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0, 6.0, .NET
  • Turbo Pascal 5.5, 7.0
  • TMT Pascal
  • gcc
  • MASM
• Internet
  • Reachout
  • Netscape Navigator
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • Mosaic
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Google Chrome
  • Newsgroups
  • Telnet
  • FileZilla (Client, Server)
  • FTP, FTPS (FTP Secure, FTP-SSL)
  • VNC
  • Gopher
  • iStar Navigator
  • Pegasus Mail
  • Eudora
  • elm
  • pine
  • Gmail
  • Hotmail
  • Outlook (Express)
• Utility / Maintenance
  • Norton Utilities
  • PC-Tools
  • Disk Defrag
  • ScanDisk
  • DriveSpace
  • DoubleSpace
  • SpinRite 6.0
  • WinZip
  • PKZIP
  • RAR, WinRAR
  • ARJ
  • LHA
• Office Tools
  • Microsoft Word
  • WordPerfect
  • Easy Write
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Lotus 1-2-3
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Maple V
  • vi
• Database
  • MySQL
  • dBASE
• Music Composition
  • Fast Tracker
  • Scream Tracker
  • Impulse Tracker

Other Skills:

• Optimization Skills (algorithmic, high level, low level)
• Reverse Engineering Skills
• Game Design / Implementation
• Game Engine Design / Implementation
• Debugging Skills (finding / fixing bugs and unwanted features)
• Real-Time 3D Graphic Engine Programming
• Graphic User Interface Programming
• Low-Level Graphic Interfacing Programming
• Demo Design / Implementation
• Artificial Intelligence Programming
• System Utilities Programming
• Equation Graphing / Solving Programs

• Dr. André Trudel, Director, Jodrey School of Computer Science and Intelligent Information Technology Research Centre, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, B0P 1X0,

  Homepage: E-Mail: Phone: Fax:

  http://pheasant.acadiau.ca/ andre.trudel@acadiau.ca (902) 585-1331 (902) 585-1067

  
  
• Dr. Leslie Oliver, Professor, Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, B0P 1X0,

  Homepage: E-Mail: Phone (Acadia): Fax (Acadia): Phone (Home): Fax (Home):

  http://dragon.acadiau.ca/~oliver/home.html leslie.oliver@acadiau.ca (902) 585-1615 (902) 585-1067 (Secure, but not confidential) (902) 542-3373 (902) 542-4846 (Secure and confidential)

  
  
• Dr. Rick Giles, Associate Professor, Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, B0P 1X0,

  Homepage: E-Mail: Phone:

  http://cs.acadiau.ca/~giles/ rick.giles@acadiau.ca (Recommended method of contact) (902) 585-1269