Resume

Victor B Andersen v@victorb.net (925) 899-0087

Summary
Multimedia Technology Generalist
  • Software Engineer, Graphic Designer, Musician, Audio Recording Engineer, Game Designer, Indie App Developer, and Small Business Entrepreneur.
  • Able to produce analog and digital music, 2D art and animation, graphic design for print and web, written copy, creative and technical designs, and code in a variety of scripting and programming languages.
Goals
  • Work on a project doing something new, interesting, or world-changing with people I like.
  • Be invested in something that has the potential for a big payoff by being hugely successful.
  • Utilize creativity and technical knowledge to solve challenging but rewarding problems.
Skills
Graphic Design

Photoshop, GIMP, Illustrator

iPhone & iPad Development

Objective-C, Cocos2d, Cocoa

Audio Production

Pro Tools, Waves, FL Studio, SoundForge

Web Development

WordPress, PHP, CSS, JavaScript

Game Development

C++, C#, Lua, proprietary scripting languages

Experience
Ocean Beach Studio
San Francisco, CA
General Manager and Co-owner
September, 2011 – Present
  • Operate, promote, and perform audio recording and engineering services in a sound-proof music studio.
  • Create and manage web site, flyers and postcards, social media presence, and online ad campaigns.
Redwood Shores, CA
Software Engineer II
April, 2011 – August, 2011
  • Supported a team of game designers and gameplay engineers in Salt Lake City, UT making The Sims 2 Pets for the Nintendo 3DS.
PeopleGo, Inc.
Seattle, WA
Co-Founder Pro Tem
June, 2010 – November, 2010
  • Helped launch this Seattle-based startup focusing on location-based Android and iPhone games and apps.
  • Created application designs, artwork, iPhone prototypes, and online collaborative work environments.
Sandbag Software
El Cerrito, CA
iPhone Developer
March, 2009 – May, 2010
  • Created prototypes for iPhone applications involving Craigslist, natural language parsing, Google Maps, and geolocation.
Heart of the Castro Wedding Chapel
San Francisco, CA
Owner and Operator
June, 2008 – January, 2009
  • Opened, operated, and promoted San Francisco’s first gay wedding chapel during the 5 months it was legal to do so in California.
  • Designed the logo, branding, print and web ads, website, and wedding ceremonies.
  • Performed 60 weddings as an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church.
Redwood Shores, CA
Software Engineer II
June, 2003 – January, 2008
  • Designed and programmed object and character behavior for The Sims 2 (PC), The Sims 2 University (PC), The Sims 2 (PS2/NGC/XBox), The Sims 2 Open For Business (PC), The Sims 2 Pets (PC/PS2), The Sims Castaway (Wii/PS2), and The Sims 3 (PC).
  • Trained new gameplay engineers and USC students on EA’s custom scripting language and tools used on The Sims games.
Infospace, Inc.
Bellevue, WA
Web Developer
March, 2000 – October, 2001
  • Developed custom applications on the web and early mobile devices for Alltel, Verizon, Vodafone, and others.
  • Created white label web pages for clients and wrote libraries for Infospace’s proprietary web scripting language.
Millet Software
Berkeley, CA
Head of Operations, Tools Developer
August, 1998 – March, 2000
  • Developed Perl web apps to facilitate data mining and mapping for the PrivacyBank.com web service.
  • Helped build, colocate, and administer the five-server production cluster of Solaris and FreeBSD machines.
Internet Frontier
Walnut Creek, CA
Sysadmin and Webmaster
March, 1998 – August, 1998
  • Administered the BSD servers, built web pages, and digitized the billing system of this 1000-customer ISP.
  • Handled incoming calls and technical support, including customers who brought PCs in for repair.
Internet University of America
Walnut Creek, CA
Web Designer and Instructor
December, 1996 – March, 1998
  • Designed logos, web sites, and print advertising for the clients of this small web design and education company.
  • Taught courses on Beginning Web Design and Adobe Photoshop in the adult education classroom.
Awards
Redwood Shores, CA
Firefighter of the Year

Awarded “Firefighter of the Year” at the annual EA company meeting in 2006 for five weeks spent in Vancouver helping a team at EA Canada port The Sims 2 Pets from PS2 to PSP on a tight schedule.

SF Bay Guardian
San Francisco, CA
Best of the Bay Award

Awarded the “Best Romantic Activism” award in the 2008 SF Bay Guardian Best of the Bay issue for opening Heart of the Castro Wedding Chapel.

Education
College of San Mateo
San Mateo, CA
General Education
Spring, 2008 – Summer, 2008

Focus on Math and English with a 4.0 average

Diablo Valley College
Pleasant Hill, CA
Computer Science
Fall, 1998 – Spring, 1999

Focus on C Programming and Computer Networking with a 4.0 average

Venture Schools
San Ramon, CA
High School Proficiency
September, 1995 – November, 1996

Completed the California High School Proficiency Exam at age 15 to receive my high school diploma.

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