Sven Charleer

Current

Software Engineer at Monumental Games

Past

Senior Software Engineer at Northgate Arinso

Education

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Games

Websites

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Sven Charleer’s Summary

Programming/scripting:

‣ Professional experience in C++ - C# - Perl - LUA - SQL
‣ Academic experience in Java - Haskell - Prolog - OpenGL
‣ Spare-time experience in C++ - Objective-C - OpenGL - DirectX - LUA

Other skills:

‣ 4 years of academic and 6 years of professional experience in object-oriented design and development.
‣ Excellent communication and time-management skills.
‣ Innovative and passionate about games.
‣ Fluent in English, French and Dutch

Sven Charleer’s Experience

Software Engineer

Monumental Games

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Responsible for the development of the front-end of MotoGP 09/10 (Xbox 360, PS3).

Working closely together with design and art to take the MotoGP franchise’s GUI to a new level.
Experienced in C++, Sony PS3, Xbox 360 and PC development. Experience with Visual Studio 2005, Perforce, RapidSVN.
Senior Software Engineer

Northgate Arinso

(Human Resources industry)

December 2003 — July 2008 (4 years 8 months)

Leading the development of a case management tool used internationally at NGA’s HR Service Centers.

5 years of experience with C# development using Visual Studio 2005/2008, MS SourceSafe, MS Team System, Oracle databases and SCRUM as an agile development method.

Working in a team of 8 developers and leading development of a an off-shore team in Malaysia.

Sven Charleer’s Education

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Master , Informatics , 1999 — 2003

4 year Master in Science degree with focus on:

‣ Mathematics:
Logic - Statistics - 3D Maths - Linear Algebra etc
‣ Analysis and Object-oriented design and development:
UML - Design Patterns - Java - C# - C++
‣ Artiﬁcial Intelligence:
Neural Networks - Speech Recognition - Natural Language Processing - Genetic Algorithms
‣ Computer Graphics:
Rendering - 3D Maths - OpenGL

Master Thesis:

Research and implementation of an image-based modeling technique: Space Carving.
Under the supervision of Prof. Philip Dutré, Computer Graphics Department Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Additional Information

Sven Charleer’s Websites:

SvenCharleer.com

Sven Charleer’s Interests:

Favorite Games: Shadow of the Colossus, Rez, Katamari Damacy, World of Warcraft , Day of the Tentacle Currently playing: MadWorld, Ghostbusters, Battleﬁeld 1943 Other: Running, drawing, playing/listening to music, watching movies