About Me

My name is Casey Kirkruff. I'm a programmer with my B.S. in Computer Science, and am currently living in Southern California.

I specialize in C and C++, focused my studies in school towards games, and am now currently looking for a job in the video game industry. I have multiple game projects spanning from high school (mainly RPGMaker), to early college (text adventures and simple puzzles) to present day (a 3D rhythym-action game). I love creating games, I love playing games, and I want nothing more than to get into the industry. I'm also looking forward to Game Developer's Conference, where I will be volunteering as a Conference Assistant once again.

Currently my site is under construction! Please watch your step.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science, Minor in Japanese

2003-09-20 to 2008-06-14

University of California, Riverside - Riverside, California
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Japanese Language and Cultural Studies

2005-02-01 to 2005-07-31

Tsuru College of Humanities - Tsuru, Yamanashi-ken, Japan
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High School Diploma

2000-09-01 to 2003-06-15

Yucaipa High School - Yucaipa, California
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Experience

Programmer/Analyst

2007-12-15 to 2009-05-05

UCR CS&E - Riverside, CA
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Address problems on site with unique solutions that fit into the existing infrastructure, such as writing scripts to notify users of exceeding quota, outfitting labs with virtualized environments for testing and instruction, and researching then implementing services such as iSCSI SANS and virtualized servers.

Games Associate

2006-07-12 to 2008-10-31

XRtainment Zone - Redlands, California
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Install and maintain various game machines with exercise-related peripherals. Observe customers and their interactions with the games to effectively prepare each one to meet their preferences and ability

Academic Excellence Workshop Coordinator

2005-12-27 to 2006-04-06

Bourns College of Engineering - Riverside, California
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Assess programming proficiency of undergraduate Computer Science students and provide supplemental instruction in both the C++ language and basic algorithms.

Skills

Languages

Proficient with: C, C++, Python, Ruby. SQL, Java, bash, Perl, PHP, HTML

Familiar with: C#, MIPS Assembly, VHDL, LaTeX

Systems

Operating Systems: Linux(Red Hat/CentOS, Debian/Ubuntu), Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/7, Mac OS X

Software: MySQL, PostgreSQL, emacs, vim, Visual Studio, VMware, NX, Blender, Maya

Services: NIS, NFS, Apache, SSH, DHCP, DNS, iSCSI, Heartbeat, DRBD

This is me.

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