Curriculum Vitae of Jesper Molbech Taxbøl

Summary
Solid technical background with professional game development experience since 2004.
An eye to detail and sense of urgency
Persistent teamplayer
Passionate about technology and digital entertainment
Creative troubleshooter
Strong communication skills
A driving force towards delivery
General details
Name Jesper Molbech Taxbøl
Email
Project blog http://jesper.taxboel.dk
Born December 5th 1978
Employment history
Position Description
Independent Contractor
Transmit, Copenhagen, Denmark
August 2010 - present
Look under softography for project details or at www.transmit.dk.
External Lecturer
Aalborg University - Medialogi
Ballerup, Denmark
Spring 2011
Advanced game programming (5 day workshop)
Pathfinding & Steering
Physics based gameplay
Advanced animation systems
Network Programming
Counceling
Game Programmer
Zero Point Development (ZPD), Copenhagen, Denmark
September 2009 - June 2010
Interstellar Marines was revived through a new company consisting 9 developers handpicked from the previous team. The new situation, was that we switched engine to Unity3D and committed to a community driven development approach, with a release every 3 months. My responsibilities besides system administration and general design and programming of systems, was focused on developing immersive control of the firstperson character.
Game Programmer
Zero Point Software (ZPS), Copenhagen, Denmark
January 2007 - May 2009
I got hired as the first programmer on the team of 8 people, without prior knowledge of gamedevelopment in UnrealEngine3. System Administrator maintaining ~20 employees
Associate Software Developer
NDS Denmark.
November 2004 - December 2006
During my time at NDS I developed a range of set-top box games for Sky based on OpenTV.
Technical skills
Category Skill Experience
Operating systems Windows 1991 - Present
Linux (Ubuntu / Gentoo) 1998 - Present
Programming languages C 2002 - 2006
C++ 2007 - 2009
Python 2006 - Present
Java 2002, 2004
JavaScript 2009 - Present
SQL 1999 - 2000, 2009 - Present
Frameworks OpenTV 2004 - 2006
Unity3D 2009 - Present
UnrealEngine3 2007 - 2009
Python / Apache / Django 2009 - Present
PyGame 2006 - 2009
Google Appengine 2009 - 2010
Website/Mail/DNS administration 2000 - Present
AJAX & jQuery 2010 - Present
Cloud Compoting & Deployment (Amazon - EC2/S3/CloudFront) 2009 - Present
Methodologies AGILE 2006 - Present
Extreme programming 2004 - Present
K.I.S.S. 1998 - Present
Online payment frameworks Paypal 2009 - Present
DIBS / PBS 2009 - 2010
System administration experience Gentoo 2005 - Present
Ubuntu 2008 - Present
Windows (20 workstations & infrastructure) 2006 - 2009
VMWare Server 2008 - 2009
Special skills/experience Advanced 3D mathematics (Vectors/Matrices/Projections/Quaternions/Inverse Kinematic/Game-Physics)
Computational Fluid Dynamics on GPU
Physics simulation using Verlet Integration
Fast electrical simulation methods Modified Nodal Analysis
General Programming on the Graphics Processing Unit
Artificial Intelligence & Neural Networks
Websecurity analysis - SQL injection & other tampering.
Qualifications
Category Qualification Period
Technical University of Denmark M.Sc. Computer Science (+2) 2002 - 2004
B.Sc Electronics & Computer Science 1998 - 2002
Frederiksberg Technical School HTX - the technical college program 1995 - 1997
Business administration transmit - my personal company that solve a range development and maintenance tasks 2006 - Present
Softography
Projects / Other interests

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