Gonzalo de Santos García

Current

• PERSONAL PROJECTS at PERSONAL PROJECTS

Past

• Programmer at Firebrand
• Programmer at Gusto Games
• Senior Programmer at Play Wireless

• Junior Programmer at Electronic Arts

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Education

• Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Industry

Computer Games

Gonzalo de Santos García’s Summary

Experienced programmer in C++, Java, J2ME. Homebrew developer always interested in new platforms like Symbian (Nokia N-gage) and Nintendo DS. Videogames programmer and specially interested on 3D(Mascot, JSR-184, OpenGL, OpenGL ES). Knowledge of artists programs like Photoshop or 3D Max (experience with maxSDK)

Gonzalo de Santos García’s Experience

• PERSONAL PROJECTS

  PERSONAL PROJECTS

  (Computer Games industry)

  January 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)

  Cebolleto en el Espacio Sideral (Symbian)www.cebolletoenelespaciosideral.cjb.net
  -Game and Graphic Designer.
  
  1010 Locos por el Tenis
  http://1010.sapoto.com
  -Animation with bones.
  -Keyframe interpolation.
  -Animaiton blending
  -Cell Shading effect using GLSL.
  -Linux version.
  -Models an animation with 3D Studio Max® 8.
  
  3D Engine for Symbian
  Exporter for 3D Studio Max® 8, from scratch, using the new tools provided by autodesk.
  Engine 3d using OpenGL ES implementation, provided by Hybrid Hyerarchy support, cameras and animation based on keyframes with matrices
  
  Zengine
  -Evolution of the 3D Engine for symbian mentioned above
  - Multiplatform 3D Engine. Supports Windows, Nintendo DS and Symbian s60 v1.
  -Gea vs CoDos was the first game to use it.
  -Rokoban (Sokoban port) was the second
  -Currently porting to Wii
  -For more information, please refer to http://zalods.blogspot.com

• Programmer

  Firebrand

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  February 2009 — September 2009 (8 months)

  Mainly working in the game menus and the HUD
  Planet 51 DS
  Trackmania DS 2

• Programmer

  Gusto Games

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  June 2008 — January 2009 (8 months)

  Finally moved to a foreign country(UK) with the main purpose of learning english
  
  Currently working as a tools programmer.
  Some collision detection work in a golf game.
  Mainly with maxsdk and maxscript. Taking care of the plugin used to export from 3dmax.
  I am working on a tool to make our shader system working in 3dmax with maxscript
  And some other different tools using Max SDK and maxscript

• Senior Programmer

  Play Wireless

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

  February 2005 — May 2008 (3 years 4 months)

  Development of J2ME simple games:
  -Star Combat
  -Surf the Tube
  -SnowBoard Fury
  http://usweb.zed.com/games_intro_prod.asp?codprod=6
  
  Development of a 3D engine suitable for JSR-184 and Mascot.
  Implementation of the first game to use it:
  -Street Race World 3D
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhYwK-9olOI
  
  Client side of a multiplayer online poker for J2ME and J2SE (applet) http://games.zed.com/zedpoker/ [The project is not only a poker game, but also a community administrator with presence information, mails, rankings, friends lists and achievements. All this part has been thought to be used in upcoming projects.
  
  Block Runner: multiplatform game using edgelib http://www.edgelib.com/ for Symbian and Pocket PC devices.
  More info: http://games.zed.com/BlockRunner/en/screenshots.html
  
  Development of internal tools used in the games mentioned above and many others.

• Junior Programmer

  Electronic Arts

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ERTS; Computer Games industry)

  July 2004 — December 2004 (6 months)

  Working there at the localization team
  
  C++, Perl, C# and .bat files skills
  
  -Total Club Manager 2005
  -Medal of Honor: Paciffic Assault
  -UEFA Champions League 2005

Gonzalo de Santos García’s Education

• Universidad Complutense de Madrid

  1999 — 2004

  Development of a multiplayer online chat as my End Of Degree project

Additional Information

Gonzalo de Santos García’s Interests:

Playing and coding Videogames (you can check my current development blog at http://zalods.blogspot.com and my other webs www.cebolletoenelespaciosideral.cjb.net, 1010.sapoto.com), reading and drawing comics (Drawing a weekly comic strip http://tinyomi.blogspot.com), animation films, running and playing footbal, nintendo,everything related to computers

Gonzalo de Santos García’s Groups:

•    Game Developers
•    Games Jobs - The original Iinkedin jobs group for the Games Industry
•    PROFESIONALES DEL VIDEOJUEGO EN ESPAÑA

Gonzalo de Santos García’s Honors:

First place at a Symbian programming contest, organized by Nokia, and the Carlos III University of Madrid (http://www.cebolletoenelespaciosideral.cjb.net)

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