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Work
I am the founder and president of
Code Reddy Inc.,
a software consultancy corporation. My clients have included
Linden Lab, where I worked on improvements to the Second Life viewer.
Previously, I was an engineering manager in the
R&D department of The Bakery, a startup animation studio located
in the south of France, just outside Marseille. Before that, I was
lead engineering within the software development department at Pixar
Animation Studios, developing new software solutions for Pixar's
movies.
You can view my
IMDB Page
to see the films that I have worked on.
Before that, I worked at SRI International in
the area of network-based terrain visualization. I've published work
in the areas of level of detail, visual perception, geographic
vizualization, and web-based computer graphics.
I have published two books, called
"Level of Detail for 3D Graphics"
and
"API Design for C++."
I gained my B.Sc.
from the University of Strathclyde and my Ph.D. from the University of
Edinburgh (Scotland). I have been on the organizing and program committees
for various international conferences, served for two years
on the Board of Directors of the Web3D Consortium, and was chair of
the GeoVRML Working Group.
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I grew up in a small fishing town in the north of Scotland. I lived
in San Francisco, California, for 11 years, then in the
south of France for most a year. I now live in Ireland.
One of my biggest passions these days is travel;
I love to get out and experience new parts of the world.
In my younger days, I spent over
10 years doing various martial arts; principally WTF Taekwon-Do and
Tukido. I hold a black belt (1st Dan) and four British Tukido
Championships gold medals, as well as various regional titles.
I was awarded a Full Blues from Strathclyde University for these
sporting achievements.
I have always had a passion for flying and when I
was a teenager I gained my glider pilot's wings (I was a sergeant in
the Air Training Corps and had planned to fly Lynx helicopters for the
Royal Navy before going to university). The pinnacle was to fly a
Hunter fast jet down the valleys of Loch Ness, and to follow this up
with some aeros pulling over 5G.
Many years ago now, I wrote various public domain and shareware
programs. My major product was the EdWord Professional text editor for
the Amiga. I also wrote a little version of Mine Sweeper for the
Amiga, and a 3D version for the SGI. You can find out more about
these from my
Projects page.
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