Personal information

Name
Sylvester Hesp
Address
(hidden) Utrecht, The Netherlands
Phone
(hidden, please e-mail)
E-mail
Birth date
9 April 1981
City of birth
Vianen (U), The Netherlands
Nationality
Dutch
Marital status
Engaged
Driver's License
European category "B"

Education

2003 - 2004
Master “Geometry, Imaging and Virtual Environments” (GIVE), Utrecht University, faculty of informatics, not finished due to job offer.
1999 - 2003
Bachelor “Higher Informatics”, Hogeschool van Utrecht.
1998 - 1999
HAVO, R.O.C. Utrecht. Exam courses: Dutch, English, Mathematics A+B, Physics, Chemistry, Economics.
1993 - 1998
VWO, Dr. F. H. de Bruyne Lyceum in Utrecht.

Work experience

2004 - present
Software engineer at Nixxes Software B.V.
Mainly responsible for scene management and occlusion culling on PC, Xbox360 and PS3, and the offline toolchain to support that.
Shipped games:
2004
Freelancer at Tweakers.net BV as PHP developer.
2003
Internship and freelancer at Engine Software as game developer.
Shipped games:
2001
Internship at GraphiX Visions as graphics programmer.
2000 and before
Various summer jobs as administrative clerk and warehouse support staff.

Games and other projects

Tomb Raider: Underworld

(Crystal Dynamics / Nixxes, 2008)

Well-known adventuregame for various platforms. The next-gen character of this episode in the Tomb Raider series was the ultimate stress test for my occlusion culling and scene management system.

Tomb Raider: Legend

(Crystal Dynamics / Nixxes, 2006)

The next-gen PC port of this game uses the initial implementation of my scene management system

Project: Snowblind

(Crystal Dynamics / Nixxes, 2005)

A first person shooter for PC, PS2 and Xbox. For the Xbox port of this game I worked on various porting issues, such as Xbox Live and savegames

Coronel Indoor Kartracing

(Engine Software BV, 2003)

A go-cart racing game featuring the actual Dutch indoor racing tracks made famous by Coronel. I've written the multiplayer network module for this game.

Homeboxx 3D

(GraphiX Visions, 2001)

The Homeboxx is a building for expositions. GraphiX Visions created the website for it's company, and during my internship I've developed a 3D software renderer in Java for the interactive 3D environment of the Homeboxx. This applet can be viewed here.

Skills

Fluent in written and spoken Dutch and English.
In-depth knowledge of C++, x86 assembly, the Win32 API, the XDK and Direct3D.
Knowledge of OpenGL, PowerPC assembly, Java, .Net (C# and C++/CLI) and PHP.
Familiar with Visual Studio, 3D Studio Max and Maya.