Curriculum Vitae

Updated: 2006/10/17
http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~jamess/cv/cv.html

Personal Information

Name	James Strauss
DOB	21/11/79
Email	jamess@csse.uwa.edu.au
Homepage	http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/~jamess/

Key Strengths

Programming using OpenGL, C and GTK

Experience developing cross-platform projects on Linux, MacOSX and Windows.

Preparation of technical documentation using Latex, HTML

Administration of Linux servers.

Interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.

Education

2001 - present	Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Western Australia Thesis title: "Polygonal Mesh Refinement Techniques and Applications" Expected completion in March 2007
1997 - 2000	Bachelor of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (Honours), The University of Western Australia Thesis title: "Polygonal Model Simplification using Hierarchical Vertex Clustering"
1992 - 1996	Certificate of Secondary Education Hollywood Senior High School Participated in Academic Extension Program from 1992 - 1994

Awards

2002	Western Australian IVEC Doctoral Scholarship, Interactive Virtual Environments Centre.
2001	University Postgraduate Award (UPA), The University of Western Australia.
2000	Member of "Datta Crew", Winners, Western Australian Region ACM Programming Contest.

Publications

2003	James Strauss and Amitava Datta. Techniques for Accelerated View-Dependent Mesh Refinement. Proceedings of 7th Biennial Australian Pattern Recognition Society Conference -- Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications 2003, (1), 479--488.
2000	Nick Lowe, James Strauss, Sam Yeates, Eun-jung Holden. Auslan Jam : A Graphical Sign Language Display System. Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2002, 21-22 January, Melbourne University, Victoria, Australia.
	J. S. Strauss. Polygonal Model Simplification using Hierarchical Vertex Clustering. Honours Thesis. September 2000. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia.

Employment

2006	Position: Casual Programmer Employer: Bushfire Collaborative Research Centre, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia Duties: Design and implementation of a graphical user interface for a bushfire simulation.
2001-2005	Position: Laboratory Demonstrator and Tutorial Presenter Employer: School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia Duties: Conducting tutorials and supervising laboratory work for 1st, 2nd and 3rd year courses such as Operating Systems, Concurrent Programming, Data Structures, Object-Oriented Programming, Visualisation. Liaising with unit coordinators Assignment marking and development of marking keys
2000-2001	Position: Casual Programmer Employer: Auslan Project, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia Duties: Implementation of a animated avatar for 3D representation of Australian sign language.

Work Related Experience

RenderPenguin OpenGL Shading Language development environment. C and OpenGL GTK GUI Load and display of RFX (RenderMonkey) shaders
eXperimental Geometry (XG) Level-of-detail API. C and OpenGL ~34 KLoC Dynamic polygonal mesh refinement Tested on >1 MTri meshes Doxygen documentation
Clean 3D Engine Co-developer Wrapper library for OpenGL Defines structs to mirror OpenGL variables Basis of 2 amateur games, GOMM and ZyberFlux (pictured) 3DS, OBJ, PLY import functions
ZyberFlux 3D Game Co-developer of level editor tool (pictured) Lead audio developer (using FMOD)
Volunteer Administrator at WALAN
MotionCaptain Motion capture data visualisation. C and OpenGL Load and display of BVH (BioVision Hierarchy) captures
Blender Plugin Custom Geometry Exporter to ZyberFlux game format Python using Blender plugin API Exports vertices, triangles, texcoords, materials

Professional Development

2004	Australian Game Developers Conference 2004, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
	SIGGRAPH 2004, Los Angeles, California.
2003	SIGGRAPH 2003, San Diego, California.
2002	Australian Game Developers Conference 2002, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
	Digital Image Computing Techniques and Applications (DICTA) 2002, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
	Attended Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2002, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Memberships

2006	Board Member, ACM SIGGRAPH Perth Chapter.
2004-2005	Member, ACM SIGGRAPH Perth Chapter.
2003-present	Student Member, Association for Computing Machinery.

Referees

Dr. Amitava Datta,
datta@csse.uwa.edu.au
Associate Professor,
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
The University of Western Australia

Dr. Eun-Jung Holden,
eunjung@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Research Fellow, Centre for Exploration Targeting,
School of Earth and Geographical Sciences,
The University of Western Australia

Dr. Paul Johnson,
paulj@csse.uwa.edu.au
Senior Research Fellow,
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
The University of Western Australia

Interests

Programming

Modern Computer Hardware Component Manufacture, particularly 3D Acceleration Hardware

Hi-Fi Stereo Equipment and Home Theatre Equipment