Benjamin Guihaire

Strengths

- Specializing in producing high quality software through the entire cycle: from research to product management and software development to on-time delivery.

- Outstanding team-player and communicator.

- Proven successful experience at delivering commercial products.

- 10+ years experience in object oriented graphic software development.

Languages: proficient at C++, C, C#, Java,  Assembly, MMX, SSE, OpenGL, DirectX, VRML, any scripting languages (ActionScript, XML, CGI, Python, Perl, Javascript. etc.).

Platforms & development tools: Windows, Mac OS X, UNIX, XBOX360, PlayStation3, Wii, XBOX, PlayStation2, GameCube, VisualStudio, CodeWarrior, gcc, Microsoft source safe, perforce.

Professional Experience

2003 – present ELECTRONIC ARTS

Senior software engineer for Electronic Arts (EA).

EA is the world's leading independent developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for personal computers and advanced entertainment systems.

« The GodFather »

- Rendering Engine Ports from Xbox360 to Wii

- Worked on Lightmap, Special effects (FOG, Shadows, Time Of Day Effects)

- Port of UI engine, MemoryCard support, LiveUpdate tools support

« Tiger Wood 2007 »

- Lead Engineer for the UI department of the game

- Worked on optimizations (using ps3 and xbox360 intrinsic functions, pipeline optimizations, shaders optimizations, vectorization of the code).

- Porting of character rendering engine to Ps3.

- Creation of new UI renderer for PlayStation3

- Creation of a new panel of authoring tools software to build the UI for Tiger.

« Tiger Wood 2006 »

- Lead Engineer for the UI department of the game

- Porting of the Flash engine, Text engine and SFX engine created for the lord of the rings

- Worked on code size and speed optimizations

- Creation of the Streaming system

- Creation of new UI renderer for PlayStation2, GameCube and XBOX.

- Creation of the Flash Renderer for Xbox360, with specific pixel and vertex shaders.

« The Lord Of The Rings » - The Third Age

Creation of a User Interface System based on Flash for the authoring part.

- Creation of the flash exporter – export 3D polygons generated from the swf file.

- Creation of the UI renderer and animation.

- Optimized for speed and size: polygons « stripifier » , coordinates optimized in 16bits, cache system to manage textures in graphic cards.

- Low level code for xbox, gamecube, ps2 graphic cards (first flash « player » with a renderer using the capabilities of the 3D graphic cards)

Creation of a SFX systems for the UI (fog, flares...).

- Optimized for 3D cards.

- VU code for playstation2.

- MMX & DirectX code, optimization of a mathematic library.

- Creation of pixel shaders and vertex shaders for XBOX.

2000 - 2003  VIEWPOINT

Lead and senior software engineer for Viewpoint, the leading provider of reach media technology and interactive services for the web, film, broadcast media, and games.

Lead Engineer on Viewpoint Flash player (VFP)

- VFP is used by AIM and AOL desktop system and is installed on 100 millions machines worldwide.

- Wrote the Action Script Engine which fully supports Macromedia Flash5

- Ported VFP to Mac.

Creator of Zoomview (zoomview sample here!)

- Invented, designed and implemented Zoomview, a system to interact with high-resolution digital images (100K x 100K pixels) on the Web over any Internet connection.

- Zoomview format was selected by Adobe for photoshop7 for their new  web exporter.

Lead Engineer on Cable Vision project

- Closely collaborated with SONY to add rich media capabilities on their next generation cable-TV machines.

- Ported the Viewpoint Plug-in to SONY’s embedded OS.

Lead Engineer on Lens Flares (lens flares sample here!)

- Created cinematic-quality light reflections which simulate the use of a camera lens and add a subtle realism to 3D images.

- Optimized the lens flares engine to enable real-time animation via MMX language.

Senior Software Engineer for Graphic Technology in Viewpoint

- Acted as the decision leader on development strategies and new technologies for the company and mentored team members in software development.

- Developed and optimized all the image compression and decompression algorithms used at Viewpoint (wavelet, jpg, mzv...)

- Developed multi resolution object movies, panoramas, effects such as real time emboss, cartoon light maps, 3D object illumination systems.

- Optimized various components such as the shadow engine for 3D renderer.

1998 - 2000 METACREATIONS

Software engineer for Metacreations, the former leader in 2D  and 3D graphics applications for the professional and consumer market.

CARRARA 3D (carrara web site)

- Created the entire shading system of the application.

- Implemented framework optimizations.

- Worked on image compression algorithms for CARRARA exporters.

Kaii’s photo SOAP 2

- Designed the retouching part of Soap2.

- Developed all the graphic algorithms: filters, real-time color controller, real-time smooth zoom, magic bucket, clone and others.

- Added support for Photoshop plug-ins such as KPT filters.

Ray Dream Studio

- Created the SDK for the latest version.

- Created a modeler plug-in for RDS that create natural 3D trees.

1997 CROSAT (Paris)

- Added computer graphics algorithms such as BSP-Tree to a 3D GIS-based simulator.

1996  SCHOOL PROJECT :

- Created a software to learn and recognize sign language using a glove device with fiber optics sensors.

- CNRS (national center for scientific research) granted an award to this project.

- Created a 3D engine to display hands in real time.

EDUCATION

1990/1996 ESME Sudria Paris

Master’s Degree in Engineering.

High school in 5 years with a specialization in computer graphics.

Bilingual English and French.

References available upon request

FUN AND GAMES:

- Created a board game LOA (download loa).

Developed the Artificial Intelligence engine using Alpha-Beta Pruning algorithm.

- Kitesurfer and overall water sports enthusiast.