Expert Serious Game Developer
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories
- Education
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- University of Southern California
- University of the Pacific
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Donna Djordjevich’s Summary
Six years of experience in serious games development. Successfully developed software frameworks still use today for distributed, large-scale, modeling and simulation efforts.
Guest Lecturer at the University of the Pacific's Computer Game Technologies course covering the application of modern game technologies to real-world applications.
Donna Djordjevich’s Specialties:
Experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams across different locations and time zones, interactive games/serious games, distributed/networked simulation development, enterprise modeling, user experience design, system design and architecture, multi-platform development.
Java, C++, C#, J2EE, XML, J2ME
Donna Djordjevich’s Experience
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Senior Member of Technical Staff
Sandia National Laboratories
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — Present (9 years 2 months)
Exploratory Computer and Software Engineering - October 2002 to present
-- Principle Investigator: Game Technology-enhanced Simulation for Homeland Security Training
-- Principle Investigator: Software Architecture for Scalable and Adaptive State Management in Support of Decision Analysis Simulations
-- Lead Developer: Weapons of Mass Destruction Decision Analysis Center simulation suite (WMD-DAC)
-- Developer: Material Weapons Information System & Data Management tool (Materials WISM)
Computer Security - Full Time/May 2001
-- Developer: Network intrusion detection system
-- Developer: Requirements Planning Model
-- Researcher/Core Team: Embedded Reasoning Institute
Center for Cyber Defenders Institute - Intern/June 2000
-- Developer: Distributed Forensics software system
Donna Djordjevich’s Education
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University of Southern California
Masters of Science , Computer Science - Software Engineering , 2005 — 2006
- Activities and Societies:
- IMSC
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University of the Pacific
Bachelors of Science , Computer Science , 1997 — 2001
- Activities and Societies:
- ACM
Additional Information
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Donna Djordjevich’s Interests:
I eat, sleep, and breathe video games
Donna Djordjevich’s Honors:
* 2008: Inductee to the Sandia Women's Wall of Fame
* 2006: Sandia -- Employee Recognition Award, BioNet Systems Modeling and Analysis Team
* 2005: National Nuclear Security Administration -- Defense Programs Awards of Excellence, Team award for Materials WISDM
* 2003: Sandia -- Employee Recognition Award, Sandia Bio Defense Initiative Testbed Team
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