This is my full bio and resumé.
First, the hard, objective, data.
Personal data:
- First name: Juan Carlos (why?)
- Last Name: Arévalo-Baeza (why?)
- Alias: JCAB (pronounced Jaykab)
- Birth: Madrid (Spain), May 19th, 1969
- Current residence: Bellevue, King County, Washington, USA
- WWW: http://www.JCABs-Rumblings.com
- Personal email: jcab@JCABs-Rumblings.com
- Work email: jcab@microsoft.com
Finished studies:
Completed in June, 1995, all the curricular requirements (6 years) in Telecommunications Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
Current employment:
Xbox 360 Graphics Engineer in the XNA platform team at Microsoft Corp starting October 2005.
Previous employment:
- In my emplyment at Microsoft Corp I worked in other teams:
- Graphics Engineer in the Xbox 360 platform team from October 2005 to April 2007.
- Programmer working on the graphics driver architecture of Windows Vista from July 2005 to September 2005.
- Graphics Engineer in the Xbox 360 development team from May 2005 to June 2005.
- 3D and game technology expert at StudioRX, part of the publishing organization at the Microsoft Game Studios from September 2002 to April 2005.
- Senior Programmer of Technology at Ronin Entertainment in Novato, California from February, 1997 to August 2002.
- September, 1995 to September, 1996: Senior Videogame Programmer at Scavenger, at its offices in Ĺrhus, Denmark. This company is no longet in business.
- September, 1993 to July, 1995: Programming engineer at the IIC in Madrid, Spain.
- July, 1990 to March, 1992: Communications Software Programmer at Anyware Seguridad Informática in Madrid, Spain. This company was bought by McAfee in 1998.
Main achievements/credits:
- Leading GPU expert in the development of the Xbox 360 H.264 high-definition video decoder, released in 2006 by Microsoft Corp as part of the Xbox 360 HD-DVD peripheral.
- Graphics engineer in the development of the backwards compatibility emulator of the Xbox 360 game console, released in 2005 by Microsoft Corp. Lead in this position between Winter 2006 and Winter 2007.
- Graphics and performance engineer in the game Forza Motorsport for Xbox, published in 2005 by Microsoft Game Studios.
- Graphics and performance engineer in the game Fable for Xbox, published in 2004 by Microsoft Game Studios.
- Graphics and performance engineer in the game Counterstrike for Xbox, published in 2003 by Microsoft Game Studios.
- Performance and support engineer in the games Tao Feng and Voodoo Vince for Xbox, both published in 2003 by Microsoft Game Studios.
- Additional uncredited support roles in the games Rise of Nations for PC/Windows and Grabbed by the Ghoulies for Xbox, published in 2003 by Microsoft Game Studios.
- Senior 3D Animation Engineer for the Xbox game Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon, published in 2002 by Vivendi Universal.
- Senior Programmer and co-designer of the RIDE game development system, which was used to develop the games Force Commander, Legend of the Blade Masters and Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon.
- Senior 3D Programmer for the Windows game Legend of the Blade Masters, developed by Ronin Entertainment and which was finished but never published.
- Senior 3D Programmer for the Windows game Force Commander, (read reviews at AwareMag and Intelligamer) developed by Ronin Entertainment and Lucasarts and published in March, 2000 by Lucasarts.
- Senior 3D Programmer for the Windows game Armor Command, developed by Ronin Entertainment and published in February, 1998 by Ripcord Games.
- Freelance Sound Engine and Additional Programming for the PC-CDROM game Speed Haste, developed by Javier Arévalo and Noriaworks Entertainment and published in January, 1996 by Friendware (Spain), Electronic Arts (Europe), Panda Software (Asia) and WizardWorks (USA, in 1997, under the name of Circuit Racer).
- Programming for the IIC Multius multimedia authoring tool developed by IIC and used for internal development.
- Multimedia Engineering and Programming for the AULA CD multimedia product developed by IIC and published in 1995 by Multimedia de Ediciones S.A. (Spain).
- Designer and Programmer of the applications Anycom and Anycom-server, an automatic software-updating package over modem for Anyware Seguridad Informática, published in 1991 as part of the Anyware Antivirus product.
- Co-Designer and co-Programmer of the custom copy protection and copy tracking system used in the Anyware Antivirus product.
- Programmer and co-lead of the Spanish demogroup Iguana, active since 1993, and winner of the 3rd prize at the Assembly 94 international PC-demo competition.
- Designer and Programmer of the DOS music replay program VangeliSTracker, freely available since 1992 with full source code.
- Co-programmer and co-lead for the ZX-Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX computer game Bronx, published in 1989 by Animagic (Spain).
- Co-programmer and co-lead for the ZX-Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX computer game Stardust, published in 1987 by Topo Soft (Spain).
Knowledge/expertise:
- Platforms: PC-DOS, PC-Win32, Xbox, Xbox 360 and some experience with Linux.
- Programming languages: Fully experienced at: C, C++, Pascal, MS-DOS shell, Assembler (Z80, 68000, x86, SSE and SSE2). Knowledge in: ADA, Modula-2, Bourne shell, Assembler (6502, 6800, MMX, 3DNow!, PowerPC).
- Programming techniques:
- Fully experienced at:
- Communications: raw serial port programming, protocol design, Windows Sockets.
- Sound: generation, mixing and visualization engine design and development, Headspace API.
- 2D graphics: raw graphics implementations, DirectDraw API, sprites, image processing.
- 3D graphics: software engine design and development, 3D animation engine design and development, scene graph design and implementation, Direct3D API, S3DTK API.
- Programming languages: interpreted script engine design and development.
- Techniques: copy protection, multimedia.
- Knowledge in:
- Communications: TCP/IP, ISO protocols and standards, DirectPlay API.
- Sound: Miles Sound System API, DirectSound API.
- 3D graphics: OpenGL API, Glide API, RRedLine API, MSI API, PowerSGL API.
- Programming languages: language design and development.
- Fully experienced at:
- Electronics and circuit analysis and design: Basic all-around engineering-degree knowledge.
- Communications systems: Basic all-around engineering-degree and common-usage knowledge, partly detailed on Spanish standards.
Languages:
- Spanish. Natural language.
- English. Near-perfect oral and written proficiency.
- Danish. Limited oral and written proficiency (6 months, 15 hours per week intensive course, and one year residence in Denmark, working for an English-speaking company).