SCOTT T JONES

13027 Scofield Farms Drive
Austin, Texas 78727-4599
(512) 832-1411
(512) 689-4184
stjones@gmail.com
http://linkedin.com/pub/scott-jones/16/7/61b

SUMMARY

Creative Software Engineer with over 15 years experience, specializing in programming efficiency and application performance. Extensive experience writing performance analysis tools and operating systems. IBM Master Inventor with 21 issued patents and 16 patents pending. Game development experience writing automated players and random scenario generators.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IBM CORPORATION, Austin, Texas, 2003 - 2010

Developed cross-platform performance tools for AIX, Linux, Windows, and z/OS. Open Source version of Performance Inspector available at http://perfinsp.sourceforge.net.

IBM CORPORATION, Austin, Texas, 1999 - 2002

Developed Virtual Machine and Just-in-Time compiler for IBM Java.

IBM CORPORATION, Austin, Texas

Developed Graphics Engine and Video Drivers for OS/2. Improved performance of generic video drivers.

IBM CORPORATION, Boca Raton, Florida

Developed Graphics Engine and Window Manager for OS/2. Designed and developed the Thunk Compiler for OS/2. Reduced the runtime footprint of the window manager by 10% and improved overall system performance by more than 2%.

GAME DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE

XcomUtil, 1995 - 2005

Designed and developed a utility enhancing the XCOM series of games by MicroProse after reverse engineering the game data files. Received free copies of future XCOM releases from MicroProse developers as thanks for my work. Copies of XcomUtil are available from http://xcomutil.scotttjones.com.

Game Development Support for OS/2 Warp

Developed GameSrvr, an OS/2 extension for game development. Tested Doom for OS/2 and presented it at the Computer Game Developers' Conference.

Imperial Space Command

Multi-player game of space exploration, colonization, and conquest published by IBM Personally Developed Software. Designed the basic rules of the game and designed and implemented the full-screen user interface and robot player. The robot player was also used as the primary test tool for the game. Copies of ISC are still available from Abandonware sites.

EDUCATION

Baccalaureate Level Curriculum
IBM University Level Computer Science Program
IBM Corporation, Boca Raton, Florida

Master of Science
Major: Applied Statistics
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico

Bachelor of Science with Honors
Major: Mathematics, Minor: Computer Science
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida

Valedictorian
Fort Myers High School, Fort Myers, Florida

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Curriculum vitae at http://details.scotttjones.com.