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Richard deCosta
7 Cleaves Farm Rd.
Falmouth, ME 04105
rdecosta@gmail.com
http://www.RicharddeCosta.com

SKILLS

COMPUTER GRAPHICS:

7+ Years experience with 3ds max , Flash, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects. Experience with character animation and lip-syncing, architectural visualization, game design, product visualization and simulation.

MUSIC COMPOSITION:

Writing music since 1984. Compositions include 45+ pieces for solo piano, 1 symphony, 2 orchestral suites, 3 operas, 9 concert overtures, 2 string quartets, a suite for solo flute, 3 film scores (“Metropolis”, “A Woman of Affairs”, and Michael Comet’s “Blue Bottle Fly” 3D animation), dozens of experimental works for synthesizer/synthetic ensembles, video games and 13 CDs of industrial-electronic music.

AUDIO ENGINEERING/PRODUCTION:

Have participated in hundreds of recording sessions since 1991, ranging from bands to film scores to gospel quartets. Duties included booking artists, production, arranging, recording, mixing, mastering and duplication.

MUSIC SOFTWARE/PRODUCTION ENVIROMENTS:

Cakewalk Pro Audio 6 through Sonar 7, Sibelius, Finale, GigaStudio, Logic Audio, SAW, streaming audio, many others.

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING:

9+ Years programming with Java (J2EE, JDBC, Servlets, JSP, GUI, EJB, Applets), JavaScript, HTML; 4+ Years experience with ColdFusion, Php, SQL, Delphi; 4+ Years experience with C++, CORBA, SteelBlue, OpenGL, VRML; Experience with version control systems such as CVS and RCS

DATABASES:

8+ Years experience with mySql, MS Sql Server, Informix, 7+ Years experience with MS Access, 4+ Years experience with Sybase, Oracle, dBase, Paradox, others

WEB SERVERS:

Apache (Linux & Win32), IIS, Netscape, Sambar, OmniHTTPd, others

OPERATING SYSTEMS:

Ubuntu, RedHat, *BSD, Solaris, Win95/98/2000, NT 3.51/4.0, XP, AIX, Macintosh, Amiga

EXPERIENCE:

June 2006 – Present

BlueTarp Financial, Inc.

Senior Java Development Engineer

Jan. 2003 – Present

Turing*Shop

Composer; Artistic & General Director

Oversees production of game music, orchestral score recordings and 3d animation.

Recently completed “Doctor Eternal's Oblivion Music Total Conversion MOD”, a 31-piece composition project that places all new music into TES: Oblivion. See www.turingshop.com/oblivion for more.

Sept ember 2001 – June 2006

Bridge Education, Westbrook, ME

Sun-Certified Java Instructor

Instructor for following modules:

• 3d Studio Max

1. Introduction to 3D

2. Modeling

3. Materials

4. Low-poly Game Modeling

5. Lighting & Special FX

6. Animation

7. Post-production

• Flash, Advanced Flash Action Script, Flash Gaming, Flash Character Animation

• Game Programming with DarkBasic

• Web Design

• HTML/Dreamweaver, JavaScript

• Photoshop

• Illustrator

• ColdFusion

• XML

• MS Access, MS Office

• Premiere, After Effects

• Cakewalk Music Studio

• Java, Java JDBC, XML & Java Integration, EJBs

Continued...

Summer 2003-4

Bridge Education Summer Learning Program

Instructor for ages 14-18 in the following areas:

• 3DS Max

  • 3D Fundamentals

  • Modeling, texturing, rigging & animation

• Game design & development with Unreal Tournament 2004

  • Planning

  • Level design

  • Importing objects from 3DS Max

  • Terrain creation, lighting

  • Bot paths/AI

• Game design & development, character animation with Flash

  • Character design

  • Character animation

  • Scenery design and animation

  • Automation/AI with ActionScript

October 2001 - June 2007

Thomas College, Waterville, ME

Applications Instructor

• MS Office Suite

• Database Concepts and Design

• Java

• Visual Basic

September 2001 – Present

Freelance Web Design/Programming, Portland, Maine

Programming and Web Design using

• Java

• EJB/JDBC/XML/RMI/Forte/NetBeans

• ColdFusion

• Complete site design and programming using

• Dreamweaver

• Photoshop

• Illustrator

• Database design

• MS SQL Server/MS Access

• MySql/Oracle

• 3d Modeling, Animation, Texturing, Lighting & Rendering

• 3ds max

• TrueSpace

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