Nathan (Acorn) Pooley

Current

• Embedded Software Monkey at nVidia

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at Electronic Arts
• Senior Software Engineer at Midway
• Software Engineer at Atari Games

• Member of Technical Staff at sgi
• engineer at IBM
• engineer at ncr

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Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Connections

77 connections

Industry

Computer Hardware

Websites

• My Website

Nathan (Acorn) Pooley’s Summary

Experienced in embedded and graphics programming, and in hardware design.

Nathan (Acorn) Pooley’s Specialties:

C, C++, assembly, bash, and many other computer languages.
UNIX/Linux, Windows, and MacOS.
Makefile expert.

Nathan (Acorn) Pooley’s Experience

• Embedded Software Monkey

  nVidia

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  August 2004 — Present (4 years 5 months)

  Implementing OpenGL-ES for embedded systems on a variety of platforms.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Electronic Arts

  (Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

  2001 — 2004 (3 years)

  3D graphics engine work on PS2, XBox, and Gamecube. Facial animation. Collision detection.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Midway

  (Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years)

  Design and implement 3D graphics engine for "Gauntlet Legends" and other coin-op and PS2 games.

• Software Engineer

  Atari Games

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years)

• Member of Technical Staff

  sgi

  (Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

  1994 — 1998 (4 years)

  Wrote microcode to implement 3D graphics for the Nintendo 64 videogame system. Also worked on the 3D Graphics hardware.

• engineer

  IBM

  (Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

  1992 — 1994 (2 years)

  Wrote 3D graphics microcode for workstation graphics adaptors.

• engineer

  ncr

  (Public Company; Computer Hardware industry)

  1990 — 1991 (1 year)

  Designed and wrote firmware (software) to control printer electronics.
  Also did some circuit design.

Nathan (Acorn) Pooley’s Education

• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  BS, Electrical Engineering, 1984 — 1990

  Activities and Societies:

  Alpha Chi Rho

Additional Information

Nathan (Acorn) Pooley’s Websites:

• My Website

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