John Sietsma

Current

• Lead Programmer at Big Ant Studios

Past

• Lead Programmer at Transmission Games (was IR Gurus)
• Teacher at University of Victoria
• Programmer at Transmission Games (was IR Gurus)

• Consultant at Kimberley Land Council
• Contract Software Developer at Arterial Software
• Lecturer at Victoria Unversity
• C++ Developer at 80-20 Software
• Contract C Software Developer at Evolutionary Systems
• C++ Developer at Spinifex Computing Pty Ltd

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Education

• Victoria University
• RMIT University
• Sun Microsystems

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Industry

Computer Games

John Sietsma’s Experience

• Lead Programmer

  Big Ant Studios

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

  November 2008 — Present (9 months)

• Lead Programmer

  Transmission Games (was IR Gurus)

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  March 2008 — November 2008 (9 months)

  I lead a team of five developers. We work on tools, core libraries, asset pipeline and improving software engineering processes throughout the company.

• Teacher

  University of Victoria

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  February 2008 — June 2008 (5 months)

  I teach introductory games programming using C# and Ogre.

• Programmer

  Transmission Games (was IR Gurus)

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  March 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 1 month)

• Consultant

  Kimberley Land Council

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  May 2006 — July 2006 (3 months)

  The KLC provides legal support for native title land claims in the Kimberly region of WA.
  
  I was involved writing the RFT document and interviewing tenderers for an $80,000 IT upgrade. I was also the analyst for the initial stage of a major overhaul of project management and reporting procedures.
  
  http://www.klc.org.au/

• Contract Software Developer

  Arterial Software

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 2003 — November 2005 (2 years 3 months)

  Key developer of Arterial's major product aXes. aXes web-enables AS/400 host applications. It includes a web server and a terminal server written in C. The web browser uses XML, XSLT and JavaScript to create the client application.
  
  www.arterialsoftware.com

• Lecturer

  Victoria Unversity

  (Higher Education industry)

  May 2005 — May 2005 (1 month)

  Lecturing in introductory games programming for a staff development program in the TAFE division.

• C++ Developer

  80-20 Software

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2000 — March 2002 (1 year 11 months)

  80-20 is a world leader in document management software. I was part of a team that commercialised an intelligent, neural network based search engine. The search engine was capable of automatically categorising documents, answering natural language questions and extracting core concepts and features from documents. 80-20's clients include Telstra ( http://search.telstra.com ), ANZ Bank, Intel and GE.

• Contract C Software Developer

  Evolutionary Systems

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — April 2000 (4 months)

  Evolutionary Systems create software for the Palm Pilot and Windows CE. Products include a map program and a translation dictionary. I developed new features for these products.

• C++ Developer

  Spinifex Computing Pty Ltd

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 11 months)

  I developed print stream enhancement and data routing software. Clients include Australia Post, VicRoads and Energex.
  
  http://www.spinifex.net

John Sietsma’s Education

• Victoria University

  Certificate IV, Workplace Training and Assessment , Training , 2005 — 2005

• RMIT University

  Master , Intelligent Systems , 2002 — 2005

  I studied agents and wrote a minor thesis on emotional agents.

• Sun Microsystems

  Sun Certified Java Programmer , Java , 2002 — 2002

  Score of 93%.

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•    Game Developers

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