Philip B. Carpenter
Software Engineer
Phil Carpenter and Associates
#102 PMB 264, 17194 Preston Rd.
Dallas, TX 75248-1221
phone: 972/931-0526
email: phil@phil-carpenter.com
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- Overview
- Graphics
- User Interface
- 3D Animation
- Machine Control
- Image Processing
- Data Visualization
- Web Development
Overview
- Systems
- UNIX . WINDOWS . VMS . DOS
- Languages
- HTML . Perl . C . C++ . Basic . FORTRAN . FORTH
- Graphics
- X-Windows . OpenGL . PHIGS . GKS
- Photoshop . After Effects . Electric Image . Wavefront
- Education
- Major: Physics . Minor: Mathematics 1978
- University of Evansville . Evansville, IN
- Image processing and animation techniques 1993 - 1996
- American Film Institute . Hollywood, CA
- Web design and programming 1998
- University of Texas . Arlington, TX
References and demo reel available on request.
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Graphics
- Craig Murray Productions
- Produced graphics elements which were incorporated in television
commercials
- UNIRAS, Inc
- Performed technical support for sales office to demonstrate product -
scientific visualization graphics software
- CADAM, Inc
- Maintained and debugged PHIGS based CAD/CAM software for Sun and Apollo
workstations
- BFTR, Inc
- Wrote software on Silicon Graphics workstation to move 2D images in real
time according to spline based path
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User Interface
- Rockwell International
- Developed CURSES interface to multi-platform file transfer system
- Martingale Research Corp
- Enhanced X Windows Motif interface to statistical analysis product
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Wrote GKS software to detect and edit errors in raw data of atmospheric
studies from space
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3D Animation
- SimGraphics Engineering Corp
- Wrote code on graphics workstation to animate stress fields on surfaces of
3D objects in real time
- Consolidated Film Industries
- Created animation for customized Academy leader sequence with Macintosh
software
- DreamQuest Images
- Simulated F-16 attack sequence for "JAG" television program
Created Doom-like maze sequence for "Earth II" television program
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Machine Control
- DreamQuest Images
- Wrote software under X Windows on UNIX machine to drive digital film
scanner, consisting of film transport motor, color wheel motors, and high
resolution camera
- Consolidated Film Industries
- Calibrated and operated high resolution digital film recorder
- Title House
- Developed QBasic software on 486 PC to control motors on digital film
scanner
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Image Processing
- BFTR, Inc
- Consulted on image processing techniques, including scanning, compositing,
color control, and recording for feature film digital effects
- R Greenberg Associates
- Wrote software on Silicon Graphics workstations to generate mattes for
image compositing
Supervised shot line-up and recording operations for films "Last Action
Hero" and "In the Line of Fire"
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Data Visualization
- U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office
- Generated hardcopy plots of gravity data collected on naval vessels
- Xontech, Inc
- Maintained code for signal processing and statistical analysis
Simulated data and displayed with contour & mesh plots
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Produced plots of radar beam patterns in 3D, contour, and line graphs
Wrote routines to downsample, clip, and scale data
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Web Development
- MCI Worldcom
- Wrote CGI Perl scripts on UNIX Web server to access lab equipment
scheduling system
- Neuralytics
- Enhanced client's web site with database and shopping cart software to
register users' interest in specific products and email information to their
sales department
- Phil Carpenter and Associates
- Designed and wrote web site for own company (http://www.phil-carpenter.com)
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