Welcome to my website

Please excuse the appearance of the site, site overhaul coming very soon.

Hi, I am a 29 year old programmer from Ireland. I am an enthusiastic C/C++ software engineer with an excellent academic background always looking to expand my skills in a challenging team atmosphere working on current edge technology. I am analytical and methodical with strong problem solving skills and an ability to quickly learn and apply technical expertise.

Core Skills

C/C++.
ColdFusion.
mySQL.
DirectX.
Objective C.
Asterisk.
PHP.
HTML/XML and CSS.

Work Experience

Game Developer, Football Superstars, CyberSports World. September 2010 - Present.
Game play and UI Programmer, SingStar, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. January 2010 - September 2010.
Front End Programmer, Beautiful Games Studios. October 2008 - December 2009.
Web and Voice applications developer, Learnosity Australia. October 2007 - June 2008.
Automation Engineer, Intel Ireland. April 2005 - March 2006.

MSc thesis: Enhanced NPC Behaviour using Goal Oriented Action Planning

The dissertation involved developing a GOAP and FSM system and placed in a game scenario where experiments were carried out between the two. Comparisons were made on three levels:

Results from game simulations i.e. how the systems performed against one another in the Domination, Capture the Flag, Deathmatch and Last Man Standing game modes.
The second comparison examined the two systems from a technical perspective and investigated how each system performed from a memory management, CPU usage and efficiency standpoint.
The final comparison considers the merits of the two systems with respect to ease of management, flexibility and re-usability.

Squad behaviour when conbined with each of the system was also analysed and this was taken into consideration in the outcome/conclusion of the dissertation.

To get the thesis document itself click here: 'Enhanced NPC Behaviour using Goal Oriented Action Planning'

You can get the latest updated version of the application including the thesis document, full source and Visual Studio project here or in the downloads section of the site.

A standlone version of the application used in the thesis is also available here. You may need to install the redistributable exe included if you don't have the latest DirectX installed. ikf that fails I'd recommend installing the latest DirectX from Microsoft.

For more information about my skills and educational background please go to the 'About Me' page.

Please note that this site still under construction!