CURRICULUM VITAE
Name
Email
Website
Phone
LinkedIn
Stephen O’Neill
s.o.neill@live.co.uk
http://www.stephenoneill.com
+44 (0)7541 759299
http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenonll
Address
38D Rosebank Street,
Dundee,
UK
DD3 6NA
PERSONAL
My name is Stephen O’Neill. I am a programmer currently working at Cobra Mobile Ltd in Dundee, UK. I love to
learn new things and enjoy working on anything I have never done before. I enjoy taking on new challenges
and I’m always eager to give it my all. Although my background is mainly in games programming, I love
working on all kinds of software engineering projects. I have been fortunate to work on many different
projects throughout my career and I look forward to participating in many more.
I have attended the BSc Honours Computer Games Development course at Institute of Technology Carlow. The
course was four years long and I graduated in November 2011 with first-class honours. While there I competed
in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup competition in 2009 and partook in the 2011 Global Game Jam.
During my third year at IT Carlow I completed a six month internship with a disability insurance company called
Unum. I spent two months in the Irish office in Carlow and the other four months in their office in
Chattanooga, Tennessee. I was part of the UI team on a project that involved updating an established system
to now use newer .NET technology.
During my final year I entered the 2011 Dare to be Digital competition as part of a team of five. We were the
Irish finalists for the competition and travelled to Dundee to make a video game prototype over nine weeks.
Following Dare to be Digital I was invited to apply for a position at Cobra Mobile. Since starting in September
2011 I have prototyped several games, implemented localisation for two games, and ported those two games
to Windows Phone and Playstation Mobile. I have worked on iBomber Attack for iOS and PC, as well as Lego
Star Wars Microfighters for iOS and Android, and I’m currently working on a title yet to be released.
EDUCATION
2007 to 2011 - Carlow Institute of Technology, Kilkenny Road, Carlow, Co. Carlow
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First-class honours BSc (Hons) in Computer Games Development.
Fourth Year Results
Subject
Programming for Games Devices
Online Gaming Technologies
Project II
Artificial Intelligence for Games
Real World Modelling and Simulation
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Result
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85
Programmer
WORK EXPERIENCE
Cobra Mobile Ltd
Dundee,
UK
26/09/11 – Present
Programmer
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Responsibilities Include
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The Weather Factory
Dare to be Digital,
University of Abertay,
Dundee,
UK
13/06/11 – 16/08/11
Unum
Chattanooga,
Tennessee,
USA
22/03/10 – 27/08/10
Programming in C++ using our own in-house technologies to develop
video games for various platforms.
Programming in C# in order to port several games to other platforms.
Prototyping several game ideas alone as part of my initial training and
later as part of a team when developing new products.
Integrated new technology into our engine.
Worked with teams on the games iBomber Attack (iOS and Steam), Lego
Star Wars Microfighters (iOS and Android), and one new title not yet
released.
Implementing the localisation on games that previously only used
images for displaying text.
Programmer
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Irish finalists in the Dare to be Digital competition.
Participated in creating a game over the course of nine weeks.
Responsibilities Included
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Unum
Carlow,
Co. Carlow,
Ireland
Working at Cobra Mobile as a programmer since September 2011.
Working alone and as a part of several small teams.
Programming in C# using Unity3d to create the game for the iPad.
Implementing changes for the artists and the designer in order to keep
up with the quick development cycle.
Programming the core gameplay of the game.
Allowing the levels and game design to be changed by the designer as
easily as possible.
College Intern
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Worked for Unum Ireland in Carlow 03/10 – 05/10.
Worked for Unum US in Chattanooga, Tennessee 06/10 – 08/10.
Worked as part of the UI team on a Windows form application.
Responsibilities Included
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Working and communicating with people in offices around the world.
Creating UML diagrams to represent my section of the project.
Involvement in meetings exploring the problems found in the project
and their solutions.
Using various technologies such as C#, Infragistics, and Team Foundation
Server.
Programmer
SKILLS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
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C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Lua, SQL, HTML, and CSS with some experience in Adobe Flash, and
Assembly.
Experienced with XNA, and OpenGL.
Worked with Google App Engine.
Experienced with source control applications including Subversion and Team Foundation Server.
Good knowledge of physics, AI, and networking when applied to games development.
Created games with various game and graphics engines including Ogre3D, Unity3D, NeoAxis, CopperLicht,
CopperCube, DarkGDK.
Experimented with professional games engines such as Unreal Engine 3 and Valve’s Source Engine.
Irish finalist in the 2011 Dare to be Digital video game development competition at the University of
Abertay in Dundee.
Irish finalist in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Software Design Competition 2009 and second round in
Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Computer Game Development Competition 2009.
REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
Mr Peter Lowe,
Lecturer,
IT Carlow, Carlow, Co. Carlow
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Mr Mark Ettle,
Managing Director,
Cobra Mobile Ltd, Dundee
Programmer