Rui Figueira

All-around games programmer, willing to find a position in the game industry where I can make a nice contribution to the company and constantly improve myself.

Rui Figueira’s Specialties:

Audio programming, UI programming, general programming

Rui Figueira’s Experience

Audio Programmer

Realtime Worlds

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

March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Owner, Programmer
CrazyGaze (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Games industry)

October 2007 — March 2008 (6 months)

Creating a commercial multi-platform sound system for games ( http://www.crazygaze.com/blog/czplayer ), with support for MOD,IT, WAV, ADPCM, and targetting mobile games. Current platforms supported include Windows, Windows Mobile (Smartphone, PockectPC), Symbian, Palm.
Programmer

Jenkins Software

(Computer Games industry)

December 2006 — September 2007 (10 months)

Revised RakNet network library v2 documentation to match v3.
Created an example for the RakNet library, on how to integrate RakNet+speex+FMOD, to allow voice in multiplayer games.
Worked in the MMOG game "Galactic Melee", implementing or helping implementing Sound, UI, Networking, autopatcher, general programming.
Programmer

DCS, Lda

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2002 — December 2006 (4 years 5 months)

Worked with another programmer in the company's main product, and other smaller products.
Ported some in-house applications to use new technologies (e.g new DB engine).
Improved website, increased web-traffic and search -engine ranking.
Provided technical support to clients.
Programmer

Ponto.C

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

February 2002 — July 2002 (6 months)

6 month contract, programming server side applications. Worked with SQL, Java, JSP, J2EE, Servlets, HTML, JavaScript.
Programmer

DCS, Lda

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — January 2002 (1 year 1 month)

Worked with another programmer in the company's main product.
Completely changed and implemented the new website.
Provided technical support to clients.

Rui Figueira’s Education

Universidade de Aveiro

ECT , Computers , 1998 — 2005
Universidade de Aveiro

Computers 1998 — 2000

Unfinished
Escola Secundária de Estarreja

Computers 1996 — 1998

Graduated high-school.
Math - 16 values of out 20 (average national values were <10 that year)
Physics - 15 values out of 20 (average nation values were <10 that year)
Computer related disciplines - ~18 values out of 20
Escola Secundária José Macedo Fragateiro

Computers 1993 — 1996
Paid course

Computers 1992 — 1993

Final notes are in the range (0-20)
MS-DOS - 19
WordStar - 19
Lotus 1 2 3 - 19
DBase IV - 19
Computer history - 15