STEFAN G BERG, PHD

ADDRESS

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 Email: XXstefanXX@bergsXX.com (SPAM PROTECTION: please remove the X's)
 Home page: http://www.bergs.com/stefan

CAREER GOAL

 A challenging full-time position with opportunities for my continued
 technical growth as a processor architect or software developer.
 Employment at a company that is committed towards making great products
 and great employees. Able to relocate.

EMPLOYMENT

 ARCHITECTURE ENGINEER  8/2004 - present
 NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara CA
 - Design, test, debug the next generation GPU architecture. Worked on
   GeForce 8 display architecture.
 http://www.nvidia.com

 PROGRAMMER  12/2002 - 7/2004
 2015 Inc., Tulsa OK
 - Network and Xbox Live programmer for Men of Valor (MOV). Led a group
   of five programmers developing MOV's cooperative play mode. Tasks
   included scheduling, time estimating, and programming. Worked on
   animation system, DVD functionality, Unreal script interpreter (albeit
   limited exposure dealing with the Unreal struct inheritance problem),
   performance improvements, and handled alpha, beta, and TCR level bugs.
 - Initial co-design of unannounced PS2 project of matinee system, physics
   system, save game mechanism, deferred processing, in-game profiling,
   file system, and memory management.
 - Wrote technical requirements document and was acting lead programmer
   responsible for the month up to and including delivery of the
   preproduction prototype.
 http://www.2015.com

 TEACHING ASSISTANT  4/2002 - 12/2002
 University of Washington, Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Eng., Seattle WA
 - Teaching responsibilities for Introduction to Compiler Construction and
   Computer Design and Organization.

 RESEARCH ASSISTANT  3/1998 - 3/2002
 University of Washington, Image Computing Systems Laboratory, Seattle WA
 - Lead architect of a research mediaprocessor architecture. Main
   contributor of the simulator and assembler (79k lines of C++).
 - eDRAM architecture research for mediaprocessors. Wrote performance
   simulator including accurate SDRAM memory model (19k lines of C++).

 RESEARCH ASSISTANT  9/1995 - 3/1998
 University of Washington, Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Eng., Seattle WA
 - Designed a deeply pipelined memory system for RaPiD. Also worked on
   systems issues, RaPiD assembler, C/C++ memory debugger, and implemented
   parts of the RaPiD structural design in Verilog.
   http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/lis/rapid
 - Developed a framework for evaluating false sharing in symmetric
   multiprocessors. Implemented several memory coherency protocols in C.
   http://www.bergs.com/stefan/quals

 BUSINESS OWNER  12/1995 - 11/1997
 Libreria Don Quijote, Seattle WA
 - Founded company to sell Spanish novels on the web. Wrote CGI-based
   online ordering system and client/server-based real-time inventory
   tracking system. Also handled the business administration.

 TEACHING ASSISTANT  9/1994 - 6/1995
 University of Washington, Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Eng., Seattle WA
 - Teaching responsibilities for Computer Programming I, Introduction to
   Digital Design, and Computer Design and Organization.

EDUCATION

 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle WA
 Ph.D. in Computer Science (6/2002). Cache prefetching for mediaprocessors
 http://www.bergs.com/stefan/thesis
 M.S. in Computer Science (6/1997). False sharing in SMPs.
 GPA 3.6/4.0

 INDIANA UNIVERSITY, Bloomington IN
 B.S. with Honors and Distinction in Computer Science (8/1994).
 Minors in Mathematics, Physics, and Business.
 Overall GPA 3.8/4.0, Major GPA 4.0/4.0

QUALIFICATIONS

 - Participated in all stages of game development, from initial design,
   prototyping, development, to alpha/beta/gold.
 - Experienced with C, C++, Unreal Script, Unreal Engine 2, OpenGL, Visual
   Studio .NET, Verilog, HTML, CGI, TCP/IP, Xbox Live, Linux and tools, MS
   Windows, Xbox, MIPS and MAP architectures.
 - Mixed logic hardware design and implementation of PDP-8 and 6809
   computers.
 - Two patents granted, five patents pending. Member of Phi Beta Kappa
   Honor Society and Golden Key International Honour Society.
 - Fluent in English, German, and a little Mandarin.
 - Love to swim, sail, and scuba dive.

CODE SAMPLE

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REFERENCES

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