Philip Rideout


Education	8/1996 - 5/2000 • Mississippi State University BS in Computer Science Summa Cum Laude
Skills	C/C++, Qt, STL, Perl, C#, XML, GLSL, LaTeX, COM OpenGL, OpenGL ES, some DirectX
Experience	9/05 - Present • NVIDIA Corporation • Fort Collins, CO Developer Tools Engineer Designed and implemented PerfHUD ES, a world-class tool for debugging and performance analysis of OpenGL ES devices. 5/00 - 9/05 • 3Dlabs • Huntsville, AL and Fort Collins, CO Senior Software Engineer Developed tools and demos for the Developer Relations group. Designed and implemented a compiler backend for D3D and OpenGL vertex shading languages. Maintained the handwritten microcode for a fixed-function T&L pipeline. 8/97 - 5/98 • NSF Engineering Research Center • Mississippi State Undergraduate Research Assistant Implemented a "Mathematical Graphics Library" (MGL). Basic topological concepts mapped directly to C++ classes. 1/97 - 4/97 • Honors Program • Mississippi State Honors Project Developed a shareware game to demonstrate the benefits of an object-oriented paradigm. Summer 1998 • Radio Shack • Atlanta, GA Retail Merchandiser 1/96 - 4/96 • MICOM • Redstone Arsenal, AL Web Designer
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.