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William Chou

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http://www.williamchou.com

Education

Cornell University

M.Eng in Computer Science

February 2010

GPA: 3.7

Cornell University

B.A. in Computer Science

May 2009

GPA: 3.4, Dean's List

Experience

Arkadium

Game Programmer

September 2010 — present

  • Worked in AS3 and Flash at a Facebook and casual game company.
  • Took over all Flash development for "Writer's Blox", growing from 18K to 300K MAU.
  • Coordinated releases of and introduced unit testing to internal networking API.

FreshPlanet

Game Developer

June 2010 — August 2010

  • Worked in AS3, Flash, PHP, JS and Python at a Facebook game startup.
  • Took over all frontend development for 150K+ DAU flagship game "Crazy Cow Music Quiz."
  • Fixed critical backend bugs by improving query performance by, in some cases, over 100x.

Build-It-Yourself

Game Developer Intern

Summer 2009

  • Worked in AS3, Flex and PHP at a technology education startup.
  • Programming lead of a team of interns building a Flash-based social webapp for children.
  • Chose technologies, wrote end-to-end system and contributed over 8,000 LOC.

Buqoo

Software Intern

2008 - 2009

  • Worked in Ruby on Rails at a web startup.
  • Implemented a reputation system and improved content search and web mapping.
  • Solely responsible for tech management, i.e. sysadmin in Solaris, deployment, data ETL.

Coursework

NSF Computational Sustainability Video Game

Fall 2009

  • Developed "Edutainment" game in C# & XNA in a team of six as part of a $10MM NSF Grant.
  • Designed and coded fundamental education mechanic teaching linear programming.

Realistic Image Synthesis

Fall 2009

  • Implemented & compared Monte Carlo path tracing, photon mapping and irradiance caching in Java.
  • Presented research paper on efficient rendering of human skin.

Game Design

Spring 2008

  • Developed a 2D platformer from concept to release in a team of six in C# and XNA.
  • Created all game art and programmed art interfaces.

Activities

Absolute Zero Breakdancing Club

2005 — present

  • 2009 Northeast intercollegiate champions.

Cornell Teaching Assistant

Fall 2009

  • Taught recitation and held office hours for an introductory programming course.