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Name:
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Duncan Mark Aitken.
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Date of birth:
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26 January 1980.
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Place of birth:
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Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Nationality:
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Dutch and Irish (dual).
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Address:
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172 Kimmage road west,
Dublin 12,
IRELAND.
Tel: +353 (0)1 - 4555103
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E-mail address:
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duncan@netsoc.tcd.ie
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Web page:
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http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~duncan. |
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Summer 2002:
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'Virtual Dublin' project (ISG, Dublin)
Involved taking photographs of buildings around Dublin city center, and making 3D models of these buildings in 3D Studio Max, texture mapping with the modified photos.
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Summer 2001:
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Programmer (Trintech, Dublin)
Continuation of the document management system (see summer 2000).
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2000 - 2001:
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Programmer (Java), CRITE
Worked for CRITE (Centre for Research in Information Technology in Education - a research group in Trinity College, Dublin: www.crite.net), in conjunction with Media Lab Europe. Designed and Implemented an Audio-Memory game applet. (Click here for more details on the project).
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Summer 2000:
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Programmer (Exceptis Technologies, now Trintech)
Designed and Implemented a document management system, using VB, ADO, MTS, ODBC and an Oracle Database.
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Summer 1999,2000:
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Various casual jobs
Worked in The Netherlands in several jobs: As a removals assistant, in a kitchen, supermarket work, and delivering newspapers.
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Referee:
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Linda Harte, Trintech Technologies.
Linda.Harte(at)trintech.com
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1997-2002:
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Completed B. A. (Mod.) Degree in Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin. Recieved an overall result of II.I.
Final Year Project:
A tool to convert 3D triangular meshes to a Progressive Mesh format (which can be used for Level Of Detail), and to render these meshes.
Final year subjects:
Information Systems, System Modeling, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics.
Academic Achievements:
Received a 'best program of the class'
prize in college for my chess game, as well as a first for a group project, SAST (Sorting Algorithms and Statistical Tool).
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1991-1997:
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The Kings Hospital, Palmerstown, Dublin.
Irish Leaving certificate subjects (and results) :
Dutch (A2), Technical drawing (B1), Art (B2), German (B2), Geography (C1), English (C1), Maths (C2), Biology (C3).
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Referee:
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John Dingliana, Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin.
John.Dingliana(at)cs.tcd.ie
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Languages:
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Fluent in both English and Dutch, and proficient in German.
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Programming:
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I am experienced in several computer languages. These include Java, C, C++, XML, VB, PHP and HTML.
I have also worked with ADO, ODBC, MTS, MySQL and Oracle databases.
Examples of Java projects that I have worked on are a Chess game, a Multiplayer Tetris game, playable over the internet, a Freecell game, a simple blackjack game, and an Multiplayer Audio-Memory game. I have also created a 'solar
system simulator', which emulates the orbit of moons and planets in a solar system, as well as an 'Electro-orb' applet. I am also learning DirectX in my spare time.
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IT Skills:
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Experience using Windows (95, 98, ME, NT, and 2000), DOS and Unix operating systems,
as well as MS-Word, MS-Excel, Visual C++, Visual Basic Source Safe, MTS and gcc.
From the various summer jobs, as well as the college projects, I have learned a great deal about communication and teamwork, as well as designing software.
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Drawing, reading, programming, squash, swimming, golf and playing the piano.
I was also treasurer of the Internet Society (one of the largest societies in college) in 2000.
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