This is my full bio and resumé.
First, the hard, objective, data.
Personal data:
- First name: Juan Carlos (why?)
- Last Name: Arévalo-Baeza (why?)
- Alias: JCAB (pronounced Jaykab)
- Birth: Madrid (Spain), May 19th, 1969
- Current residence: Bellevue, King County, Washington, USA
- WWW: http://www.JCABs-Rumblings.com
- Personal email: jcab@JCABs-Rumblings.com
- Work email: jcab@microsoft.com
Finished studies:
Completed in June, 1995, all the curricular requirements in Telecommunications Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Didn't complete the End of Master Project.
Current employment:
Senior Engineer at Microsoft Corp in a variety of roles since September 2002.
Currently, Senior Engineer in the Time Travel Debugging team since April 2014.
Previous employment:
- In my employment at Microsoft Corp I worked in a variety of teams and products:
- Senior Graphics Engineer in the Xbox One platform graphics team from April 2011 to April 2014.
- Senior Engineer in the Microsoft Game Studios incubation team from February 2010 to April 2011.
- Senior Graphics Engineer in the Xbox 360 SDK team from May 2007 to January 2010.
- Senior Graphics Engineer in the Xbox 360 platform team from October 2005 to April 2007.
- Senior Programmer working on the graphics driver architecture of Windows Vista from July 2005 to September 2005.
- Senior Graphics Engineer in the Xbox 360 development team from May 2005 to June 2005.
- Senior 3D and game technology expert at StudioRX, part of the publishing organization at the Microsoft Game Studios from September 2002 to April 2005.
- Senior Programmer of Technology at Ronin Entertainment in Novato, California from February, 1997 to August 2002.
- Senior Videogame Programmer at Scavenger, at its offices in Århus, Denmark from September 1995 to September 1996. This company is no longer in business.
- Programming engineer at the IIC in Madrid, Spain from September 1993 to July 1995
- Communications Software Programmer at Anyware Seguridad Informática in Madrid, Spain from July 1990 to March 1992. This company was bought by McAfee in 1998.
Main achievements/credits:
- Member of the select team of programmers that maintained, improved and built upon Microsoft's Time Travel Debugging, a complete program recording and replay/debug technology.
- Member of the select team of programmers that designed and implemented the multi-VM graphics stack of the Xbox One game console.
- Graphics and performance engineering improvements performed in the Xbox 360 games Fusion: Genesis and Halo 4, as part of cross-team collaborations.
- Lead/senior programmer on the Crackdown 2 tie-in games Chuck's Ducks 2 (on Facebook) and Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst (Windows Phone 7).
- Member of the select team of programmers that jumpstarted the Windows Phone 7 Series runtime graphics stack and Direct3D implementation.
- Leading programmer in various multithreading improvements of the D3D graphics rendering library for Xbox 360.
- Leading GPU expert in the development of the Xbox 360 H.264 high-definition video decoder, released in 2006 by Microsoft Corp as part of the Xbox 360 HD-DVD peripheral.
- Graphics engineer in the development of the initial backwards compatibility emulator built for the Xbox 360 game console, released in 2005 by Microsoft Corp. Lead in this position between Winter 2006 and Winter 2007.
- Graphics and performance engineer in the game Forza Motorsport for Xbox, published in 2005 by Microsoft Game Studios.
- Graphics and performance engineer in the game Fable for Xbox, published in 2004 by Microsoft Game Studios.
- Graphics and performance engineer in the game Counterstrike for Xbox, published in 2003 by Microsoft Game Studios.
- Performance and support engineer in the games Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus and Voodoo Vince for Xbox, both published in 2003 by Microsoft Game Studios.
- Additional uncredited support roles in the games Rise of Nations for PC/Windows and Grabbed by the Ghoulies for Xbox, published in 2003 by Microsoft Game Studios.
- Senior 3D Animation Engineer of the game Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon for Xbox, published in 2002 by Vivendi Universal.
- Senior Programmer and co-designer of the RIDE game development system, which was used to develop the games Force Commander, Legend of the Blade Masters and Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon.
- Senior 3D Programmer for the Windows game Legend of the Blade Masters, developed by Ronin Entertainment and which was finished but never published.
- Senior 3D Programmer for the Windows game Force Commander, developed by Ronin Entertainment and Lucasarts and published in March, 2000 by Lucasarts.
- Senior 3D Programmer for the Windows game Armor Command, developed by Ronin Entertainment and published in February, 1998 by Ripcord Games.
- Freelance Sound Engine and Additional Programming for the PC-CDROM game Speed Haste, developed by Javier Arévalo and Noriaworks Entertainment and published in January, 1996 by Friendware (Spain), Electronic Arts (Europe), Panda Software (Asia) and WizardWorks (USA, in 1997, under the name of Circuit Racer). This game has been amazingly remade by a fan under the name GLSpeed.
- Programming for the IIC Multius multimedia authoring tool developed by IIC and used for internal development.
- Multimedia Engineering and Programming for the AULA CD multimedia product developed by IIC and published in 1995 by Multimedia de Ediciones S.A. (Spain).
- Designer and Programmer of the applications Anycom and Anycom-server, an automatic software-updating package over modem for Anyware Seguridad Informática, published in 1991 as part of the Anyware Antivirus product.
- Co-Designer and co-Programmer of the custom copy protection and copy tracking system used in the Anyware Antivirus product.
- Programmer and co-lead of the Spanish demogroup Iguana, active since 1993, and winner of the 3rd prize at the Assembly 94 international PC-demo competition.
- Designer and Programmer of the DOS music replay program VangeliSTracker, freely available since 1992 with full source code.
- Co-programmer and co-lead for the ZX-Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX computer game Bronx, published in 1989 by Animagic (Spain).
- Co-programmer and co-lead for the ZX-Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and MSX computer game Stardust, published in 1987 by Topo Soft (Spain).
Knowledge/expertise:
- Platforms learnt for development throughout my career: PC-DOS, Win32, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Windows Phone and some sporadic experience with Linux.
- Programming languages:
- Currently expert in: C++17, CMake, MS-DOS/Windows shell, Assembler (x86, x64, SSE).
- Currently knowledgeable in: C++20, C#, Haskell, HLSL, Assembler (AVX, ARM32/THUMB2, ARM64).
- Past expert in: C, Pascal, Assembler (Z80, 68000, PowerPC, various Xbox shader and front-end controller microcode formats).
- Past knowledgeable in: ADA, Modula-2, Bourne shell, Verilog, Assembler (6502, 6800, MMX, 3DNow!).
- Programming techniques:
- Fully experienced at:
- Communications: raw serial port programming, protocol design, Windows Sockets.
- Sound: generation, mixing and visualization engine design and development, Headspace API.
- 2D graphics: raw graphics implementations, DirectDraw API, sprites, image processing.
- 3D graphics: software engine design and development, 3D animation engine design and development, scene graph design and implementation, Direct3D APIs, S3DTK API.
- Programming languages: interpreted script engine design and development.
- Techniques: copy protection, multimedia, parallelism/concurrence.
- Knowledge in:
- Communications: TCP/IP, ISO protocols and standards, DirectPlay API.
- Sound: Miles Sound System API, DirectSound API.
- 3D graphics: OpenGL API, Glide API, RRedLine API, MSI API, PowerSGL API.
- Programming languages: language design and development.
- Fully experienced at:
- Electronics and circuit analysis and design: Basic all-around engineering-degree knowledge.
- Communications systems: Basic all-around engineering-degree and common-usage knowledge, partly detailed on Spanish standards.
Languages:
- Spanish. Natural language.
- English. Near-perfect oral and written proficiency.
- Danish. Limited (vanishing) oral and written proficiency (6 months, 15 hours per week intensive course, and one year residence in Denmark, working for an English-speaking company).