Resume of Jonathan Willard Decker<br/><br/>Contact Information<br/>--------------------<br/>Email Address: Lokno1 (at) gmail.com<br/>Phone: inquiry by email<br/>Home Page: <a href="http://lokno.backrowcrew.com/" target="_blank">http://lokno.backrowcrew.com/</a><br/><br/><br/>Education<br/>--------------------<br/><dl><dt>May 2008</dt> <dd>M.S. in Computer Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.</dd></dl><dl><dt>May 2006</dt><dd>B.S. magna cum laude in Computer Science, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.</dd></dl><br/><br/>Work Experience<br/>--------------------<br/><dl><dt>January 2008 - </dt><dd>Graphics programmer in the 3D Virtual and Mixed Environments (3DVME) lab at the Naval Research Lab (NRL)</dd></dl><dl><dt>August 2007 - December 2007</dt><dd>Teaching Assistant for CMSC 341 : Data Structures</dd></dl><br/><br/>Honors<br/>--------------------<br/>Member of Phi Beta Kappa<br/><br/>Skills<br/>--------------------<br/><dl><dt>Languages:</dt><dd>C/C++, Java, PHP, C#, HLSL, GLSL, Javascript, Actionscript, Python, Lua, Perl, HTML, CSS</dd></dl><dl><dt>IDEs:</dt>   <dd>Visual Studio, Flash 8 Professional, Eclipse, XCode</dd></dl><dl><dt>Graphical APIs:</dt> <dd>Microsoft XNA Game Studio, DirectX9, Flash 8 Professional, OpenGL/Glut, OpenSceneGraph</dd></dl><dl><dt>Applications:</dt><dd>Photoshop CS2, Microsoft Office, Corel Painter 9</dd></dl><dl><dt>Revision Clients:</dt><dd>Perforce, TortoiseSVN, WinCVS</dd></dl><br/><br/>Publications<br/>--------------------<br/><dl><dt>Leveraging Graphics Hardware to Accelerate Dynamic Programming</dt><dd>John Kloetzli, Brian Strege and Jonathan Decker. In Proceedings of EGPGV 2008: the 8th Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization, (Crete, Greece, April 14-15, 2008).</dd></dl><dl><dt>System of Bound Particles for Interactive Flow Visualization</dt><dd>Jonathan Decker. M.S. Thesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, December 2007.</dd></dl><br/><br/>Projects<br/>--------------------<br/><dl><dt>Designed level for LBP GOTY Edition:</dt><dd>I was commissioned to produce a level for the PlayStation 3 game LittleBigPlanet, which appears in the Game of the Year edition of the game along with a 30 second introductory video of myself</dd></dl><dl><dt>System of Bound Particles for Interactive Flow Visualization:</dt><dd>Developed on a GPU-accelerated particle system with deformable elements using XNA Game Studio. Allows for user-defined mass-spring elements we transported through a field</dd></dl><dl><dt>Graphics Hardware Accelerated Dynamic Programming</dt><dd>Group project for Advanced Algorithms. Designed and implemented a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) accelerated dynamic programming algorithm using the NVIDIA CUDA framework</dd></dl><dl><dt>Interactive Exhibit Visualization:</dt><dd>I worked one-on-one with artist Katherine Marmor to create artistic visualization of activity in a surveillance-technology inspired exhibit, Bird Watching. Presented as a tech demo at SIGGRAPH 2008.</dd></dl><dl><dt>Modular Genetic Programming Simulation:</dt><dd>Developed a genetic programming application that allows for modication of the problem optimized by the population. Implemented applications for solving the Traveling Salesmen Problem and choosing optimal structure for simple neural networks</dd></dl><br/><br/>Graduate Courses Taken<br/>--------------------<br/>Graphics for Games<br/>Advanced Graphics<br/>Advanced Algorithms<br/>Artistic Rendering<br/>Advanced Operating Systems<br/>Advanced Computer Architecture<br/>Introduction to Machine Learning<br/><br/><br/>Undergraduate Courses Taken<br/>--------------------<br/>Introduction to Computer Graphics<br/>Introduction to Artificial Intelligence<br/>Introduction to Robotics<br/>Neural Networks<br/>Research Topics in Computer Science<br/>Introduction to Algorithms<br/>Software Engineering<br/>Computer Architecture<br/>Operating Systems<br/>Scripting Languages<br/>Introduction to Computer Architecture/Assembly Languages<br/>Data Structures<br/>Discrete Mathematics<br/>Principles of Programming Languages<br/>