General Information:
 

• BC in Architecture Engineering (Damascus University).
• Arabic as a native language. Excellent in spoken and written English. Basic French.

Employment Positions:
 

• Rendering Programmer at SpaceToon TV: Developing a 3D engine for running interactive characters on live broadcast.
  Duration: 3/2001 to 11/2001.
   
• Lead Programmer at Dar Al-Fikr: with a team of 4 programmers to develop the first Arabic real-time strategy game (Quraish). I was responsible for writing the game’s 3D rendering code, and was highly involved in AI programming.
  Duration: 1/2002 to 12/2005.
   
• Lead Programmer at In|Framez: for the DirectSkeleton 3D engine project (the company’s flagship product). The game (Quraish) was powered by this engine.
  Duration: 4/2000 until now.
   
• Software Engineer 2 at Electronic Arts Inc.: in the field of rendering and animation engineering for next-gen games.
  Duration: 4/2006 until now.

Technical Competencies:
 

• Professional in C/C++/C#/VisualBasic programming languages.
• Professional in JavaScript/VBScript scripting languages.
• Experience in Application architecture and 3D Engine Design.
• Development Direction, Leadership, and Project management skills (Microsoft Framework, SCRUM).
• Multi-platform Programming: Win32/64, Nintendo Gamecube, Nintendo Wii, Xbox, Xbox360, PlayStation2, PlayStation3.
• High experience in 3D graphics systems (Direct3D, Nintendo GX, libGCM).
• Good experience in animation and physics systems.
• Excellent Web Development skills (HTML, CSS, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, LINQ).
• Experience in relational database systems, modeling and optimization (MS SQL Server and MySql).
• High experience in game pipelines and data exchange (Softimage, 3dsMax).

Professional Experience:

• Developed Anbar, a real-time interactive walkthrough virtual reality experience based on DSK/Direct3D.
• Platform rendering engineer on Army of Two: 40th Day (PS3).
• Rendering engineer on Army of Two: 40th Day (PC,Xbox360,PS3).
• Lead animation engineer on Army of Two: 40th Day (PC,Xbox360,PS3).
• Lead animation engineer on an unannounced next-gen racing title (PC,Xbox360,PS3).
• Lead rendering engineer on Boogie (Nintendo Wii).
• Rendering engineer on SSX Blur (Nintendo Wii).
• Rendering engineer on NHL2007 (PC, PS2, XBox).
• Gave a talk on advanced animation technology engineering at the Animation Workshop at EA Canada (Procedural Animation Retargeting, Component Animation Systems).
• Writing and conducting training material in the field of 3D rendering to engineers at EA.
• Lead programmer and lead graphics engineer on Quraish, a 3D real-time strategy game.
• Design/architecture/implementation of the DSK engine (based on Direct3D).
• Developed the DSK|ShaderBass real-time shader development system for Softimage|XSI.
• Developed the motion capture component for Softimage Co. which is currently employed in Softimage|XSI (Biovision and Acclaim files exchange).
• Developed MOAVR (Museum of Omayyad Architecture in Virtual Reality), a real-time interactive walkthrough virtual reality experience based on DSK/Direct3D.
• Softimage Beta tester for Softimage|XSI and the dotXSI file format FTK.
• Several 3D demo shows.
• Developed three dynamic web sites (arabtronics.com, inframez.com, agdn-online.com) based on Microsoft platforms (ASP, ASP.NET, MS Access, and MS SQL Server).

Publications:

• Many technical articles about Direct3D on the papers section at inframez.com.
• Several programming articles for Tronix Magazine covering C++ and DirectX.
• Proof-read several articles in the ShaderX2 book.
• Authored a variety of papers in ShaderX3, ShaderX4, ShaderX5 and ShaderX6 books:
  • An Extensible Direct3D Resource Management System.
  • Effect Parameters Manipulation Framework.
  • Shader Visualization Systems for The Art Pipeline.
  • Skinning with AniTextures.
  • Micro-beveled Edges.
  • Cloth without Cloth.
  • Volumetric Clouds and Mega Particles.
  • Designing Plug-in Shaders with HLSL.
  • 3D Engine Tools with C++/CLI.
• Section editor of 3D Engine Design section in ShaderX5 and ShaderX6.
• Section editor of Rendering Techniques section in ShaderX7.
• Section editor of Rendering Techniques section in GPUPro.
• Coverage stories for major industry events on the Arabic Game Developer Network.

Community Activities and Awards:

• Continuous contributions to Microsoft online communities microsoft.public.win32.programmer.directx.graphics, DirectXDev, and the MSDN Game Technology Forums.
• Supervision of the Arabic Game Developer Network (agdn-online.com).
• Local-area free game programming training.
• Awarded as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in DirectX for 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Hobbies and Interests:

• Old-time gamer (adventure and action computer games).
• Novelty and content authoring.
• Music (playing electric guitar).
• Electronics and interfacing.