Sven Charleer

Current

Software Engineer at Monumental Games

Past

Senior Software Engineer at Northgate Arinso
Web Developer at iChoosr

Education

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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Industry

Computer Games

Websites

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Sven Charleer’s Summary

PROGRAMMING/SCRIPTING
- Professional experience in C++ - C# (.NET 1.1/2.0/3.0) - Perl - LUA - SQL - ASP - PHP
- Academic experience in Java - Haskell - Prolog - OpenGL
- Spare-time experience in C++ - Objective-C - OpenGL - DirectX - LUA

APPLICATIONS
- Professional experience with Visual Studio 2005/2008, Perforce, SVN, SourceSafe
- Spare-time experience with Xcode (iPhone development), Visual Studio 2008, SVN

OTHER
- 4 years of academic and 6 years of professional experience in object-oriented design and software development.
- XML/XSLT/XHTML experience. Web development/design experience.
- Excellent communication and time-management skills.
- Fluent in English, French and Dutch

Sven Charleer’s Experience

Software Engineer

Monumental Games

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Responsible for the development of the front-end of MotoGP 09/10
(Xbox 360, PS3 - Release date March 2010)

Part of a team of 12 programmers and 10 artists. Responsible for 2 junior programmers.
Experienced in C++, Sony PS3, Xbox 360 and PC development. Experience with Visual Studio 2005, Perforce, RapidSVN.
Senior Software Engineer

Northgate Arinso

(Human Resources industry)

December 2003 — July 2008 (4 years 8 months)

5 years of experience with C# development using Visual Studio 2005/2008, MS SourceSafe, MS Team System, Oracle databases and SCRUM as an agile development method.

Working in a team of 8 developers and leading development of a an off-shore team in Malaysia.

- Responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of HR Workspace, a case management tool used by companies such as General Motors, Unilever and Cadbury

- Development of the Service Integrator, a back-end system that allows General Motors to send XML formatted HR request forms to the HR Workspace back-end and create/manage HR tickets in the case management tool

- Development of various Service Center monitoring and reporting tools (XML/XSLT)
Web Developer

iChoosr

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — June 2008 (6 months)

Part of a web development team during my spare time.
Web development using C# / MonoRail in Visual Studio 2008

Responsible for the development of a VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) system

Sven Charleer’s Education

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Master , Informatics , 1999 — 2003

4 year Master in Science degree with focus on:

‣ Mathematics:
Logic - Statistics - 3D Maths - Linear Algebra etc
‣ Analysis and Object-oriented design and development:
UML - Design Patterns - Java - C# - C++
‣ Artiﬁcial Intelligence:
Neural Networks - Speech Recognition - Natural Language Processing - Genetic Algorithms
‣ Computer Graphics:
Rendering - 3D Maths - OpenGL

Master Thesis:

Research and implementation of an image-based modeling technique: Space Carving.
Under the supervision of Prof. Philip Dutré, Computer Graphics Department Katholieke Universiteit Leuven