Greater Chicago Area
- Current
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- President at Couchworld Games
- Sub-Contractor at Boost Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
- Contributor at Boost
- President at Redshift Software, Inc.
- Past
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- Lead Software Engineer at Jellyvision Inc.
- Lead Software Engineer at Institute for the Learning Sciences - Northwestern University
- Programmer at Motorola - Ballas Engineering
- Programmer at ACCESS 2000 - Loyola University of Chicago
- Teaching Assistant at Department of Energy Pre-Freshmen Enrichment Program - Loyola University of Chicago
- Education
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- Loyola University of Chicago
- Loyola University of Chicago
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
Rene Rivera’s Summary
Software Designer and Developer with experience in a large number of technologies. Special interest in interactive applications like Game Development. But also experienced in more slow paced interactive development of Web Sites. Particular interest in Visual Design and Artificial Intelligence applications.
Rene Rivera’s Specialties:
Development: Project Management, User Interface Design, Object Oriented Design, Systems Design, Tutoring/Teaching, Multimedia, Web Site Design, Database Design.
Technologies: iPhone, 3D Graphics, OpenGL, OpenAL, Win32 API, Linux/POSIX, Boost Libraries, Irrlicht, wxWidgets, GTK, ORACLE, CGI, MFC.
Programming: Advanced C++, Java, Common Lisp, Perl, PHP, SQL, HTML.
Rene Rivera’s Experience
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President
Couchworld Games
(Computer Games industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year)
Working to make games that bring people together.
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Sub-Contractor
Boost Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2005 — Present (3 years 7 months)
Advanced C++ software design and development.
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Contributor
Boost
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2002 — Present (6 years 10 months)
Maintainer of Boost.Build V1 and Boost.Jam. Boost web site (www.boost.org) design and development. General testing and bug fixing of C++ libraries.
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President
Redshift Software, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1997 — Present (11 years 4 months)
In charge of day to day operations, long term planning, project development, and new product concepts.
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Lead Software Engineer
Jellyvision Inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)
November 1998 — August 2001 (2 years 10 months)
Led the development of "You Don't Know Jack: The 5th Dementia", "That's A Fact: Jack! Read", and others. Supported the development of "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" CD-ROM as it used the same engine that was developed for "That's A Fact: Jack! Read".
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Lead Software Engineer
Institute for the Learning Sciences - Northwestern University
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1994 — October 1998 (4 years 10 months)
Development of various interactive educational programs backed by Artificial Intelligence research in the Cased Based Reasoning area.
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Programmer
Motorola - Ballas Engineering
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1993 — December 1993 (2 months)
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Programmer
ACCESS 2000 - Loyola University of Chicago
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 1991 — February 1992 (3 months)
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Teaching Assistant
Department of Energy Pre-Freshmen Enrichment Program - Loyola University of Chicago
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1991 — August 1991 (3 months)
Rene Rivera’s Education
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Loyola University of Chicago
M.S., Computer Science, January 1992 — May 1993
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Loyola University of Chicago
B.S., Mathematics and Computer Science, January 1989 — May 1993
Rene Rivera’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
