Kit Lee Burgess

Objective

To lead a team of creative, talented people and develop innovative games that reinvent genres.

Proffesional Summary

• Ten years of combined game design and development experience.
• Designed and built software architecture for new mobile technology.
• Excel at leading and bridging gap between creative and technical minds.
• Gameplay mechanics, user interface design, toolset development, physics, and team management are all specialties.

Languages

• C++, C#, and .NET
• x86 Assembly
• DirectX and XNA APIs
• Visual Basic .NET
• Lua, Batch, and PERL

Experiance

Programming Consultant
Leviathan Games

Boulder, Colorado

Feb 2010 - Present

Contract Programmer
PlayFirst Games

San Fransisco, California

Oct 2009 - Dec 2009

• Enhanced image conversion and compression tool to support iPhone image file formats.
• Ported toolset used by over 25 development studios from Windows to Mac OS X.

Game Developer
Fuel Industries

Ottawa, Canada
May 2009 - Aug 2009

• Interfaced between artists, management, and clients to port iPhone titles to Zune HD.
• Developed user interface, game mechanics, and physics engine for Vans Sk8: Pool Service.
• Created tools to streamline future development of Zune HD games.
• Contributed to the development of Desktop Tower Defense and Lifeboat.

ITS Lab Assistant
Westwood College

Denver, Colorado

Aug 2007 - May 2009

Provides on-call technical support to instructors, staff, and over 4,000 students.
• Installed, upgraded, and maintained software and hardware for more than 600 workstations.
• Administered, secured, and maintained the servers and infrastructures of two WANs.

Quality Assurance Tester
iBeta Quality Assurance

Arvada, Colorado

Aug 2006 - Aug 2007

Debugged software titles on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, PlayStation 2, and PC platforms.
• Successful projects include Pirates of the Caribbean, Turok, Two Worlds, Marvel Trading Card Game, and Snoopy vs. the Red Baron.

Education

Westwood College

Bachelor of Science in Game Software Development

July 2009

Graduate of the Term, Alpha Beta Kappa, Student Ambassador

Uintah Basin Applied Technology College

CompTIA A+ (Hardware & Software) Certifications

June 2006

Multimedia and Webpage Design Certifications

May 2006

Achievements

• Colorado Game Developers Association Board of Directors
• Reciepient of Westwood College's Game Developer Conference '09 scholorship.
• Lead team developing XBox Live Arcade game for senior project using C# and XNA.
• Placed 4th in The Game Creator's 2004 programming competition.
• Coached 6th and 7th grade Mathcounts state winners in 2005 and 2006.