KEVIN BEASON _________________________________________________________________________ Work Phone: (850) 644-5437 E-mail: beason@cs.fsu.edu Cell Phone: (850) 545-5977 Website: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~beason/ Address: 708 Locksley Lane Tallahassee, FL 32312-1813 OBJECTIVE A graphics software engineering position, developing photo-realistic applications and rendering tools. EDUCATION M.S. Computer Science, Florida State University, August 2005 B.S. Computer Science, Florida State University, 3.31 GPA, May 2000 Minors in Mathematics, Physics WORK EXPERIENCE Research Assistant and Programmer 2002-Present Computational Science and Information Technology, Florida State University C++ Programming. 3D Rendering. Implemented my own physically based renderer to simulate light transport using C++ and Open Inventor, in 20,000 lines of code. Supports global illumination via photon mapping and Monte Carlo path tracing to produce high quality renderings of scenes from science and art. Features octree acceleration, irradiance caching with gradients, and importance sampling of: indirect light, HDR image-based lights, and multiple luminaires. Also supports multi-threading, anti-aliasing, QMC and jittered sampling, tone-mapping, glare, participating media, precomputed irradiance, smooth/frosted glass and water, including reflections and caustics, plus diffuse surfaces, mirrors, and metals. Visualization and Research. For my thesis I implemented a full global illumination solver in 2D as well as for 4D volume datasets, using photon mapping. Both are novel techniques. Developed scientific visualizations (including brain, neuron, molecular dynamics, and steam cleaning) for use in research papers and other publications. Developed software tools, managed a student assistant, and assisted others with programming and graphics problems. Diagnosed hardware, software, and network problems, installed software, and configured machines. Presided meetings and presentations. Webmaster 1997-2002 Department of Mathematics, Florida State University Perl Programming. Webpage Design. Two major site redesigns, plus two additional websites for other departments, wrote specialized software to provide site-wide visual consistency, coded at least 10 secure, interactive web-based applications (Perl CGI's), installed apache, proftpd, webinator, provided web-related technical assistance, poster design, photography, configuration, and backup. Other Programming Jobs Wrote XML based site indexing tool and news script modification 2001 Computational Science and Information Technology, Florida State University Wrote C++ program to format scientific instrument output 1998 Geology Department, Florida State University Wrote Java calculation tools and performed plot fitting 1997 Nuclear Research Division, Department of Physics, Florida State University Modified Pascal mail processing control code 1996-1997 Rose Printing, Tallahassee, FL Other Designing Jobs Kiosk graphics, consulting website and logo 1999-2000 Mickey R. Boyd Computer and Network Consulting, Tallahassee, FL Webpage graphics and HTML 1999 Department of Health and Rehabilitation, State of Florida, Tallahassee, FL PUBLICATIONS Kevin M. Beason, Josh Grant, David C. Banks, Brad Futch, M. Yousuff Hussaini. Pre-Computed Illumination for Isosurfaces. Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis, 2006. (in submission) David C. Banks, Kevin M. Beason. Retro-rendering with Vector-Valued Light: Producing Local Illumination from the Transport Equation. Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis, 2006. (in submission) Kevin Beason. Precomputed Global Illumination of Isosurfaces. Master's Thesis. Florida State University. 2005. HONORS AND AWARDS 1st Place, FSU ACM Programming Contest, 2005 1st Place, FSU ACM Programming Contest, 2004 (Spring) 1st Place, FSU ACM Programming Contest, 2004 (Fall) 1st Place, FSU ACM Programming Contest, 1997 2nd Place, FSU ACM Programming Contest, 2003 2nd Place, FSU ACM Programming Contest, 2002 2nd Place, FSU ACM Programming Contest, 2001 2nd Place, FSU ACM Programming Contest, 1998 6th Place, ACM Southeastern Regional Programming Contest, 2001 12th Place, ACM Southeastern Regional Programming Contest, 1998 Dean's List 1995-1997 MCI Scholarship, FSU Dept. of C.S., Spring 1999 Florida Undergraduate Scholar/Bright Futures Scholarship Full Tuition 5 years Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Honor Society in the Computing Sciences CONFERENCES ACM SIGGRAPH 2005, Los Angeles, CA ACM SIGGRAPH 2004, Los Angeles, CA ACM SIGGRAPH 2003, San Diego, CA ACM SIGGRAPH 2002, San Antonio, TX ACM SIGGRAPH 2001, Los Angeles, CA ACM SIGGRAPH 2000, New Orleans, LA ACM OOPSLA 2001, Tampa, FL Atlanta Linux Conference 2000, Atlanta, GA TECHNICAL SKILLS UNIX Programming C++, C, Perl, bash, tcsh, SPARC and MIPS Assembly, Ada 95, FORTRAN, BASIC, Pascal, MATLAB Graphics Tools Open Inventor, GIMP, Photoshop, trueSpace, Illustrator Programming Tools gdb, gprof and fnccheck, valgrind, vtune, RCS, CVS, Makefiles Web Programming HTML, JavaScript, CGI, PHP, MySQL, Java, XML, SSI, Apache Systems Administration OS Patching, Networking, Active Directory, Samba, DNS, VNC, LDAP w/SSL, NFS, Windows Services for UNIX Installed OS Red Hat Linux 5, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 8.0, Fedora Core 4, Mandrake 7.1, 8.0, Slackware 3, 4, Solaris 9, Windows 2000 Advanced Server (3.1/95/98/ME/XP/2003), Mac OS X 10.4 Built Systems AMD486/66, Pentium 233, Celeron 300@450, Pentium III 600@800, Athlon 1.0GHz, Pentium4 2.4GHz COURSES Scientific Visualization, Computer Graphics, Photo-realistic Computer Graphics, Computational Methods in Statistics I & II, UNIX Systems Administration, Cryptography, Compilers, Computer Architecture, Linear Algebra, Calculus III, Quantum Theory of Matter, Intermediate Electricity & Magnetism, Mathematical Physics, Modern Physics, Ordinary Differential Equations, Optics, Photography, SCUBA WEB PORTFOLIO Gallery of webpages created and more information can be found at http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~beason/.