Curriculum Vitae

• Master Degree in Digital Media
• Expected to graduate April 2010.
• Masters of Digital Media Program.
• Center for Digital Media, Great Northern Way Campus.
• Sponsored by University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Emily Carr University and British Columbia Institute of Technology.
• Vancouver, British Columbia.

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science
• June 2004, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University.
• Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• Grade: Excellent with First Degree of Honor.
• GPA: 4.96.

• 2008 Scholarship for Master and PhD Degrees, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• 2004 Best Student Graduation Project, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
  Description: development of a Translation tool, translating from C++ to C# programming Language, using Visual Basic, under Windows environment.
  Role: Co-team manager, research, prototyping, programming, testing, debugging and documentation.

• Winter 2008
• Faculty member, Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computer Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

• Winter 2006
• Accomplish Advanced level of Intensive English Program.
  UBC English Language Institute - Vancouver, British Columbia.

• Summer 2005
• English Language Proficiency.
  Joy Language Institute - Vancouver, British Columbia.

• Spring 2004
• Teacher Assistant in C++ programming lab. Level 101-102, Computer Science Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

• Spring 2003
• System Analyst of Hotel reservation system, Sunset Hotel, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

• Fall 2003
• Microsoft Project.
  King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

• Spring 2002
• Microsoft Access.
  New Horizon Institute, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

• Fall 2002
• Macromedia Flash.
  New Horizon Institute, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

• January - April 2009
• Web-Based Games
• Phsyndi Creative Inc, GNWC - Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Web based flash games for kids between 5-8 years old.
• Responsible for Web-Developent, using Flash, HTML, PHP,MySQL.

• December 2008
• Newtonian Drop
• GNWC - Vancouver, British Columbia.
• A physics-based Source-mod powered by Havok engine.
• Responsible for Level Design, logic scripting, and packaging the Mod.

• November - December 2008
• Suzy's Curtain Call
• GNWC - Vancouver, British Columbia.
• An interactive story project in 2D flash animation .
• Responsible for Storyboard, Music and SFX design, art assets editing using Photoshop.

• November 2008
• The Gaia Project
• GNWC - Vancouver, British Columbia.
• A 3D interactive virtual music composition garden.
• Responsible for Interactivity design and programming using Java, prototyping, testing and debugging.

• October 2008
• The Misfit Moose
• GNWC - Vancouver, British Columbia.
• An interactive story designed for kids in 2D flash animation.
• Responsible for Storyboard, sfx, flash animation and programming, testing.

• October 2008
• Switch
• GNWC - Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Machinima video in second life.
• Responsible for Linden Script programming.

• June 2004
• Senior (Graduation) Project
• King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• research, analysis, and development of a Translation tool, translating from C++ to C# programming language, using Visual Basic, under Windows environment.
  

• Fall 2004
• Scanner
• King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• Developing a scanner (First phase of constructing a compiler) for Turbo C Language, Using C++ programming language.

• Spring 2003
• Database Project
• King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• Developing a Hotel Data Base System Using Oracle 8i version, and SQL instructions.

• Spring 2003
• System Analysis and Design Project
• King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• Analyzing and improving the reservation system of the Sun Set Hotel, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

• Spring 2003
• Advanced Programming Project
• King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
• Developing a Toys Shop Sales System, Using Visual C++ Programming Language and Microsoft Access, Early Learning Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

• Winter 2009
• Agile Project Managment by Autodesk.
• GNWC - Vancouver, British Columbia.

• Fall 2009
• Team Work Principles by Autodesk.
• GNWC - Vancouver, British Columbia.

• Winter 2005
• Principle of real estate investment.
• Guiding real estate investment.
• Hilton Hotel, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

• System Analysis, Programming Using:
• Visual Basic.
• Borland C++.
• Visual C++.
• Visual C#.
• Assembly.
• PHP.
• MySQL.

• Softwares:
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point).
• Microsoft Project.
• Good Knowledge of Oracle 8i.
• 3D modeling using MAYA.
• Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effect, Flash.
• Hammer World Editor- Havok Engine.

• Content Managment Systems.

• Database Managment.

• Languages: English, Arabic and Italian.

• Public relations and communications, Research and Reports, Self-Learning, Team Leader and Worker, Problem solving, Organizational skills.

• Reading, Swimming, Playing Piano, Traveling, History, Digital photography, Movies,Music.