Philip Rideout

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Overview	I'm in love with all things graphics, whether rendered in real-time or for production; whether physically-based or cartoony; whether executed on the GPU or the CPU.
Skills	C/C++, Python, Tcl/Tk OpenGL, OpenGL ES, CUDA, OpenCL Linux, Visual Studio, Xcode, Qt
Experience	5/2011 - present • Pixar Animation Studios • Emeryville, CA Studio Tools Developer 1/2010 - 4/2011 • Medical Simulation Corporation • Denver, CO Senior Graphics Developer Developed cross-platform graphics infrastructure for medical simulation on desktop systems and tablet devices. 9/2005 - 12/2009 • NVIDIA Corporation • Fort Collins, CO Developer Tools Engineer Designed and implemented tools for debugging OpenGL ES and DirectX 10 applications. Built user interfaces with Qt and WPF, designed communication protocols. Implemented mesh viewers and texture examination tools using OpenGL and DirectX 10. 5/2000 - 9/2005 • 3Dlabs / Intergraph • Huntsville, AL and Fort Collins, CO Senior Software Engineer Developed the industry's first GLSL vertex shader compiler; authored various shader-related tools and demos; fixed bugs in an OpenGL driver; maintained the VLIW microcode for a fixed-function T&L pipeline. 8/1997 - 5/1998 • Dr. David Banks • Mississippi State University Undergraduate Research Assistant
Pats & Pubs	iPhone 3D Programming: Developing Graphical Applications with OpenGL ES O'Reilly Media • March 2010 2D Distance Field Generation with the GPU Article in GPU Pro 2 • A.K. Peters • February 2011 Client Server System for Analysis and Performance Tuning of Remote Graphics Devices USPTO Application 20090037774 • February 2009
Education	8/1996 - 5/2000 • Mississippi State University BS in Computer Science Summa Cum Laude
Honors	University Honors Program Phase I Certification The Outstanding Honors Sophomore, Spring 98 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Nominee, Fall 99 Society of Scholars Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society
Coursework	Computer Science I - III, Discrete Structures, Formal Languages Calculus I - IV, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra French I - IV, Creative Writing, Technical Writing Compiler Construction, Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Computing Data Communications, Operating Systems, Microprocessor Design Physics I - III, and others.