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Curriculum vitae

Name	Frank Alfred Tovar
Birthday	27.09.1984
Birth place	Caracas, Venezuela
Nationality	German
Civil state	Married, 1 child
Address	August-Metz-Weg 5, Ap. 331 64297 Darmstadt Germany
Mobile phone	+49 151 11553651
Phone	+49 6151 679 0212
Email	frafam

Education

1990-2003	German school "Colegio Humboldt" in Caracas, degree: A-levels (Abitur)
2002	Cultural trip to Mexico (3 weeks)
2003	Stay abroad for 6 months attending the german school of Quito, Ecuador
01.10.03 - 30.06.04	Military service in 7./signal corps 282 (Kastellaun) and GFZ barracks (Mainz)
01.10.04 - 07.07.08	Completed bachelor studies in computer science at the Johannes-Gutenberg university Mainz. Key subjects Realtime image processing and 3D-Computervision Communication networks, client- and serverside web applications Music informatics as elective courses Computer graphics Bachelor's thesis Realtime motion planning for cameras in dynamically changing virtual environments (PDF) Demo program Final mark: good (1,7)
01.04.09 - 30.09.09	Diploma studies in computer science at the Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster. Key subjects Artificial intelligence Logic calculus and their application in computer science
Since 01.10.09	Master studies in computer science at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Key subjects Serious Games Image Analysis and Pattern Recognition 3D Animation and Visualizing

Work experience

05.07.04 - 31.10.04	Internship in the IT department of the Ministry of education, science and research Rhineland-Palatinate Migration of a NT 4.0 network of 400 clients to Windows XP + Windows Server 2003 Development of a file manager
01.02.05 - 31.12.05	Student trainee in the IT-client support department of IBM Mainz Installation, configuration and maintenance of client and server software (Windows and AIX)
01.02.06 - 01.03.06	Internship in the QA department of Phenomic Game Development Quality assurance of SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars
2007-2008	Graduate assistant in the computer science institute of the Johannes-Gutenberg university Mainz Trainer to the computer graphics lectures
01.07.06 - 31.03.09	Software developer at PROVISIO GmbH Project: Development of the 3D-accelerated photo managers Pictomio. Used technology: Visual C++ 2008, WTL 7.5, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, DirectX + DirectShow, MSXML. Project: Development of the add-on pictoGEO, which adds geotagging support for Pictomio. Embedding of a web-browser object to display Google Maps or Live Maps, created own extensions for the maps. Development of a GPU-accelerated JPEG decoders with nVidia CUDA Development of a DirectX-based image slideshow screensaver Project: Development of extensions for SiteKiosk 7
01.04.09 - 30.09.09	Graduate assistant in the computer science institute of the Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster Trainer to the algorithmic geometry lectures
Since 01.10.09	Software developer at PROVISIO GmbH Research of face recognition technologies: OpenCV, VeriLook SDK, FaceVACS Research of Linux development environments: GTK+, Qt, Eclipse CDT, XPCOM Research of Silverlight and Windows Azure development: Unity Application Block, Prism, Rx Development of a WebDAV client for Silverlight 4 Project: Development of Silverlight extensions to SiteRemote

Private and university projects

FAMily Raytracer	University project Development of a raytracer from scratch Design and implementation of a procedurally generated scene in 5 days Link to the project website (http://raytracer.xtr1m.com)
TIM 3D	University project Design of a 3D version of the well-known classic The Incredible Machine Development of the graphics engine Download the space demo (TODO!)
Project Space: A new dimension	Browser game Concept, design and development of a space build-up strategy game Design and development of the GUI and ingame graphics All components were entirely self-developed (amongst others a private messaging system, an internal forum, and so on) Used technologies: PHP, MySQL und AJAX Link to the game (http://www.project-space.de)
Distance based raymarcher	Private project Implementation of a raymarcher as software renderer, or alternatively using GLSL or CUDA Procedurally defined scene via distance fields Link to the description of the used method Download demo images (TODO!)

Activity in the demoscene

Group	Blu-Flame
Awards	Crystal Cowboy (4k Intro), 4th place at tUM 2007 Fractoblob (4k Intro), 2nd place at evoke 2008 Space Colony (4k Intro), 4th place at tUM 2008 Valleyball (4k Intro), 4th place at breakpoint 2009 Lunaquatic (4k Intro), 1st place at evoke 2009 Timeless (PC Demo), 6th place at Function 2009 Link to the download page (http://blu-flame.org/prods.php)
Internal tools	To aid the development of the intros, I developped following tools: A software synthesizer using GM.DLS or FM audio synthesis. Optionally using DirectSound or the waveOut API. A GLSL compiler to compress shader code with the purpose to make it as small as possible. An own assembler-like language and a fitting VM which parses the opcodes in realtime.

Skills

Languages	I can speak and write in the following languages: Spanish (mother-tongue) German (mother-language) English (fluent) Italian (moderate)
Development tools	Microsoft Visual C++ 2005-2010, Visual C# 4.0 (Silverlight 4, WPF), Eclipse JDK+CDT
Patterns & practices	MVC, MVVM
APIs	DirectX (HLSL), OpenGL (GLSL), .NET Framework 4, Qt 4, OpenCV, CUDA
Web development	HTML 4.0, PHP 5, JS, XML, MySQL, Microsoft SQL 2005&2008, CSS 2, Adobe Flash
Graphics software	Adobe Photoshop CS4, Inkscape
Audio tools	Puredata, Q, Faust, Reason, Audacity, ModPlug Tracker
Operating systems	Microsoft Windows 3.1, 95, 2000, XP, Vista, 7. Ubuntu Linux 6.06 - 10.04
Document creation	MS Office 2003&2007, LaTeX (TeXnicCenter + MikTeX / LyX)
Version control & bug tracking	CVS, SVN, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Bugzilla