JOSHUA LEE

E-mail	joshlee@semifat.net
Web	http://joshlee.semifat.net/

Josh Lee is a game designer and producer with a broad range of creative and technical skills. Josh is dedicated to the creation of fun games that reach a wide audience.

GAME DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE

Secret Level, October 2007 to Present: Designer, Golden Axe: Beast Rider

• Designed, programmed, and tuned enemy AI, creating a broad range of characters to challenge and surprise the player.
• Provided feedback and direction to programmers, animators, and artists, helping to maintain the creative vision of the game.

Monster Games Inc., December 2006 to August 2007: Game Designer, unannounced prototype.

• Prototyped gameplay mechanics for unannounced Wii title.
• Designed and programmed AI.
• Provided feedback and direction to programmers and artists to maintain the project's vision.

Monster Games Inc., December 2005 to October 2006: Game Designer, Excite Truck.

• Designed and tuned AI, creating computer-controlled opponents that can race competitively with a wide range of players.
• Designed tutorials that familiarize the player with the Nintendo Wii's innovative controller, as well as with the game's rules and mechanics.
• Designed and tuned non-racing game modes to provide additional entertainment value to the player.
• Designed sound effects for the game and user interface, immersing the player in the game's world and enhancing the gameplay experience.

Monster Games Inc., February to May 2004: Producer, Test Drive: Eve of Destruction.

• Created cinematic interludes to preview tracks and events in the game.
• Managed placement of virtual cameras for replay of events.
• Designed variations on basic events to widen the player's gameplay options.
• Tested and tuned gameplay.

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

HomebrewerSupply.com, July to August 2005: Contractor

• Redeveloped the HomebrewerSupply.com web site, providing a standards-compliant implementation of a conceptual design to improve usability, accessibility, and search ranking.

Minnesota Public Radio, June to September 2005: Web Developer

• Redeveloped web sites for American Public Media's national radio programs, bringing them together under a common site architecture and visual identity.
• Designed and developed a dynamic content solution for the Saint Paul Sunday web site.

Minnesota Public Radio, May to October 2005: Blogger

• Wrote entries for "The Bleacher Bums", Minnesota Public Radio's baseball web log.

Freelance Writer, November 2004 to present

• Reviewed World of Warcraft for City Pages.
• Reviewed video games and online media for PopMatters, including NBA Street V3, Diner Dash, Rocketboom, and others.

Valuative Software, June to August 2003: Contractor

• Developed all the user interface components for a financial analysis product.
• Developed a flexible and reusable user interface framework based on Java Swing.

Retek Inc., September 1997 to February 2003

Software Engineer, January 2001-February 2003

• Assisted in a survey of Retek's applications and development teams to determine needs for usability guidelines; produced an internal website detailing these guidelines; consulted with various development teams on their implementation.
• Streamlined development of application interfaces by providing developers with libraries to generate and process XML-encoded messages within Retek's suite of products.
• Spearheaded efforts to re-platform various Retek applications by researching and prototyping user interface and application frameworks based on the Java 2 platform.
• Reduced time spent by developers on compiling and testing by designing and developing the configuration management system, enabling them to focus more on programming.

Systems Analyst, September 1997-January 2001

• Reduced implementation costs for Retek's clients by assisting them with performance profiling and tuning.
• Led design and development efforts on the data-movement processes of the Retek Data Warehouse.
• Developed and delivered training curricula for new and inexperienced programmers.

SKILLS

Software Tools	Adobe Audition, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Movable Type, Jakarta Ant, Make, Microsoft Office.
Programming Languages	HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Java, Python, C, Objective C, Oracle PL/SQL, Unix shell scripting (Bourne and Korn), Windows/DOS batch file scripting.
Servers	Apache HTTPD, Jakarta Tomcat, JBoss.
Databases	Oracle.
Operating Systems	Unix (Solaris, HP-UX), Linux (Debian, Red Hat), Macintosh OS X, Microsoft Windows.

EDUCATION

University of Minnesota, College of Continuing Education, 2004-2005.

Courses Taken	Sexuality and Culture, On Television, Critical Debates in the Study of Cinema and Mass Culture.

Carleton College, Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, 1997.

Courses Taken	Data Structures, Programming Languages, Computer Algorithms, Organization/Systems, Discrete Mathematics, Theory of Computation, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Graphics.

REFERENCES

Available upon request.