Evan Sims

Developer & Designer

I'm a twenty-something video game designer, web developer and entrepreneur from the mid-west.

I push pixels, build bytes and churn code for work and play. I'm a strong supporter of web standards and open source. I love lamp.

http://evansims.com/

Based in: Champaign, IL

Experience

Founder at Rogue Helix Software

Rogue Helix is my creative outlet for these all random project ideas I have.
- October 2010 - Present
- Champaign, IL
- http://roguehelix.com
Technical Game Designer at High Voltage Software

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- Worked in design and technical design capacity on The Grinder and Conduit 2.
  - July 2010 - October 2010
  - Hoffman Estates, IL
  - http://www.high-voltage.com/
Programmer at Nijikon Industries

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- My short lived but rather successful business experiment in Second Life. I developed numerous tools for integrating users' virtual identities on the Grid with social networks like Twitter, Delicious, Jaiku and Facebook.
  
  After receiving coverage on Mashable, Read/Write Web and InformationWeek, I was approached by a German social networking firm, and the projects were acquired.
  - March 2007 - August 2007
  - Second Life
Writer at Lockergnome

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- I was a writer for the popular Lockergnome website for a period of roughly a year, reporting news and reviewing products for their Windows section.
  - 2003 - 2004
Web Developer & Editor at RPGDot.com

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- Briefly held a position as a news editor and web developer for gaming news site RPGDot.com. Wrote a number of backend applications for RPGDot's daily operations.
  - February 2002 - May 2002
Editor at Stratics

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- I was a news editor for the popular online gaming site Stratics, first as a specialist in Ultima Online server emulation and later as a Stratics Central reporter for Myst Online: Uru Live.
  - January 2000 - December 2001
Columnist at Marco Island Sun Times

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- For roughly a year I wrote a weekly technology column for the Marco Island Sun Times, a local paper for the southern Florida island where I lived for eight years.
  - 2001 - 2001
Web Developer at PJCC Worldwide

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- Wrote a large number of internal web and desktop-based systems, as well as some functionality that still exists in the external website. During the later part of my time there, I became the lead programmer for the site and helped move the entire infrastructure from Windows NT / Internet Information Server / SQL Server to Linux / Apache / MySQL, greatly reducing downtime, overhead and licensing costs while improving site performance.
  - June 2000 - November 2000

Education

B.A. in Game Design at University of Advancing Technology
- 2003 - 2008
- Tempe, Arizona
Computer Science at Parkland College

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- - 2002 - 2003
  - Champaign, Illinois