Homepage Phone:(514) 448 2739 E-mail: liam@flookes.com Address: 3732 Avenue Coloniale, Apt. 2 Montréal, Québec H2X 2Y6	Liam Flookes
Work Experience
Electronic Arts Montréal	September 2006 - Present Generalist Programmer Current project: Systems programmer on an unannounced Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 action game Shipped titles: Army of Two: The 40th Day (2010) for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 Interesting work included multithreaded conversion work, optimizing allocators for both speed and size, SIMD conversion of third party libraries, streaming and load time optimization, and a wide variety of middleware massaging Self directed the requirements gathering, build setup, profiling, technical compliance, everything needed to ship downloadable content on Playstation 3 in two and a half months Army of Two (2008) for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 Was in charge of all PS3 network related tasks, including external library integration, debugging, platform specific feature implementation, and CPU/memory/bandwidth profiling and optimization Was primary PS3 programmer for downloadable content in the months following release SSX Blur (2007) for Nintendo Wii Responsible for a variety of low level programming tasks
Education
McGill University	2006 Bachelor of Science Honours Computer Science GPA 3.46 Thesis: Image Velocities for Specular Points with a Moving Observer Awarded NSERC Undergraduate Research Award for Summer 2006 Wide variety of courses taken in both computer science and other subjects, including five at a graduate level Contributed to paper accepted at the 2007 Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry
Computer Related Skills
	Very familiar and program regularly with C++ Have done projects using C, C#, Java, Perl, Python, and Scheme Good familiarity with PowerPC assembly for debugging and programming, including experience with Altivec Have good familiarity with PS3, Windows, 360, and Wii development environments Have experience using C++ Standard (STL) and Boost libraries Experience with standard networking libraries Have written multiple Win32 GUI applications Very comfortable learning new languages and frameworks Implemented databases using mySQL, db2, and SQLite Familiar with common OOP paradigms Developed a small cross-platform multiplayer online game in C++ as a hobby
Miscellaneous
	Intermediate French Not afraid to use a screwdriver This document is also available with links to further information at: http://liam.flookes.com/cv.html References available upon request