Gaetano Cecere

Work History

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  Lead Programmer

  Behaviour Interactive

  April 2013 - December 2016

  Montreal, Canada Area

  Currently working on projects for the Mobile Platform.
  * Task Scheduling and Coordination
  * Gameplay Programming
  * Automated Build Machine Setup and Maintenance for individual projects
  Previous Projects:
  * Rocksmith 2017 (iPad)
  * Rocksmith 2014 Remastered (Consoles/PC)
  * Love & Hip Hop (iOS/Google)
  * Home boov pop (iOS/Google/Amazon)
  * Monsters University (iOS/Google)
  * MLB Battle at the Plate (iOS)
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  Senior Programmer

  Codemasters

  January 2012 - February 2013

  Southam, Warwickshire

  Worked on Several unnamed projects for the iOS platform.
  * Task Scheduling and Coordination
  * Gameplay Programming
  In charge of the creation and use of an iOS Plugin Framework.
  Designed and wrote a plugin manager to be used by Unity's engine and communicate with the various iOS Plugins.
  * Facebook Plugin
  * Twitter Plugin
  * E-mail/SMS Plugin
  * iOS Built-in Share Activity Window plugin
  * Camera Roll/Picture folder Plugin
  * Taking a Screen Capture.
  * Save image to iDevice.
  * In-App Purchase Store Plugin
  * Analytics Plugin
  * iCloud Plugin
  * Local/Push Notifications Plugin
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  Lead Programmer

  Behaviour Interactive

  April 2010 - December 2011

  Lead Programmer for the following game:
  Club Penguin's Puffle Launch Live Updates
  * iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/puffle-launch/id427832971?mt=8
  * Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.disney.PuffleLaunch
  
  Monkey Quest Pocket Monkey (iOS)
  Naughty Bear (iOS)
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  Game Programmer

  Behaviour Interactive

  January 2008 - December 2011

  Gameplay programmer for the following games:
  Club Penguin's Puffle Launch
  * iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/puffle-launch/id427832971?mt=8
  * Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.disney.PuffleLaunch
  
  Rango
  * iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/rango-the-game/id425744027?mt=8
  
  Sims 3 (Wii)
  Dante's Inferno (PSP)
  Mercenaries 2 (PS2)

• Game Programmer

  DTI Software

  February 2007 - January 2008

  Worked on a game of "GO" called "In-Flight GO" for In Flight Entertainment systems.
  Go is an ancient Chinese strategy game similar to chess.
  I wrote the game and a rudimentary AI for smaller platforms.
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  Help Desk

  IBM

  2006 - 2007
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  Programmer

  Personal Project

  April 2006 - November 2006

  Designed and wrote a Physics engine modeling the orbital motion of a planetary system.
  
  The Engine calculates the next position after a time interval of a planet based on all the gravitational forces acting on it by the other celestial bodies.
  
  The Engine was written in C++, using OpenGL and GLUT libraries to display the planetary system on the screen.

• Programmer

  University Final Engineering Project

  September 2005 - May 2006

  Designed and wrote the Physics Engine in C# to describe simple mechanics behavior as well as more complex behavior such as elastic and inelastic collisions.
  
  Designed and created the 3D models for a game using Maya and GameSpace (TrueSpace) then exported it as a DirectX mesh file.