Jeff Stanley

Current

• AI Engineer at Red Storm Entertainment

Past

• Software Engineer at Destineer Studios
• Software Engineer at RTI International
• Software Engineer at Supreme Court of the United States

• Other at Various

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Education

• North Carolina State University
• Duke University

Connections

96 connections

Industry

Computer Games

Websites

• My Company
• Responsive Virtual Humans
• Speech Accent Archive

Jeff Stanley’s Summary

A creative student of language and intelligence, I have over five years of professional experience developing games, simulations, and tools using C++, VB, ASP.NET, SQL, et al. in a variety of contexts. I also have academic and research experience in linguistics, with special interests in phonology and ancient languages.

Jeff Stanley’s Specialties:

Artificial intelligence (Behaviors & Decision making)
Affective, interactive agents
Linguistic analysis

Jeff Stanley’s Experience

• AI Engineer

  Red Storm Entertainment

  (Public Company; Computer Games industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

• Software Engineer

  Destineer Studios

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  November 2006 — January 2009 (2 years 3 months)

  (rebranded 2009 as Atomic Games)
  AI/gameplay engineer on Six Days in Fallujah and various training simulations.

• Software Engineer

  RTI International

  (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 11 months)

  -Developed interactive dialogue-based training tools in C++ and VB featuring affective, fuzzy-state avatars.
  -Developed military training simulations and tools in C++, VB, and ASP.NET, using SQL and MS Access databases.
  
  Abstracts & Presentations:
  -Mass Casualty Triage Simulation for Emergency Preparedness and Response (http://www.rvht.info/pubs/ATA_poster.05.07-10.06.pdf)

• Software Engineer

  Supreme Court of the United States

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Judiciary industry)

  September 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 4 months)

  -Migrated VB and ASP tools to ASP.NET.
  -Developed and maintained web tools and SQL databases for customers including case analysts, reporters, and network administrators.

• Other

  Various

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 1998 — June 1998 (1 month)

  (NOTE: These are not the real dates. See below for the dates associated with each position.)
  
  - Volunteer at Majestic Studios: Performed a few programming tasks for the now infamous PC game "Limbo of the Lost". Dec. 2004 - May 2006.
  
  - R&D on the Speech Accent Archive at George Mason University: Documented phoneme inventories of many languages, developed in Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Jun. 2002 - Aug. 2002.
  
  - Speech Recognition Specialist and Program Administrator at VeriSign, Inc., Incubator Group: Researched and reported on speech recognition / TTS companies and engines. Helped manage the project by creating task lists, assembling presentations, and reviewing candidates. Jun. 2001 - Aug. 2001.
  
  - Summer Intern at Logicon, Inc. (A Northrop Grumman Company), Knowledge Solutions Division. Jun. 1998 - Aug. 1998.

Jeff Stanley’s Education

• North Carolina State University

  MS , Computer Science , 2005 — 2010 (expected)

  Minor: Cognitive Science
  
  Favorite studies:
  -Interactive narrative (CSC582)
  -Genetic algorithms (ECE791N)
  -Automated poetry understanding (in CSC720)
  -Schank & Abelson's script vs. plan theory (in PSY508)
  -Image processing the Codex Seraphinianus (independent study)

• Duke University

  BA , Linguistics, Computer Science , 1999 — 2003

  Minor: Ancient Greek
  
  Graduated with High Distinction
  
  Honors Thesis: "Tongues of Malevolence: An Analysis of Constructed Fictional Languages" -- An in-depth comparison of the languages of the Orcs, Klingons, Drow, Hutts and others.

Additional Information

Jeff Stanley’s Websites:

• My Company
• Responsive Virtual Humans
• Speech Accent Archive

Jeff Stanley’s Interests:

Knowledge representation, decision making, undeciphered languages, writing systems, made-up languages, phonology, sound symbolism

Jeff Stanley’s Groups:

NCSU Computer Science

•    International Game Developers Association
•    Triangle Game Dev Network
•    Eagle's Nest--Eagle Scout Award Recipients
•    Game Developers
•    Electronic Entertainment Industry Network
•    Duke University Alumni Network
•    VideoGame Professionals
•    Natural Language Processing People
•    Artificial Intelligence Researchers, Faculty + Professionals
•    Game AI Developers -- AiGameDev.com
•    NC State Computer Science Alumni
•    Linguistic semantics
•    Ex Atomic

Jeff Stanley’s Honors:

-Eagle Scout
-Outstanding Technical Achievement (Annual Award), RTI International, 2005
-The National Scholars Honor Society (lifetime membership fee waived)

Jeff Stanley’s Contact Settings

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