JOSHUA A. GRANT 
                
1600 Pullen Road, #16D                           (850) 580-2024 (Home)
Tallahassee, FL 32303                            (850) 644-6935 (Work)

Email: grant@cs.fsu.edu
URL:   http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~grant/

OBJECTIVE       A software engineering position with a visual effects
                company developing tools and applications for rendering

INTERESTS       Visual Effects, Ray Tracing, Global Illumination,
                Radiosity, Scientific Visualization, 3D Animation,
		Application Development

SKILLS          Languages  C++, C, Java, Ada, Perl, IDL, Objective C,
                           MIPS Assembly, FORTRAN 
                API's      Open Inventor, OpenGL, X-Motif, Cocoa
                Web        HTML, CGI, JavaScript, VRML
                OS's       Unix/X (Irix, Linux, SunOS), Macintosh,
                           Windows
                Apps       Amira, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver,
                           MS Office

WORK
EXPERIENCE 
                Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies,
                  Tallahassee, Florida 
                Computer Graphics Programmer, February 1999 - Present
                Developed a tool based on my Master's thesis for
                 studying 3D ocean flow using Open Inventor. Designed
                 web pages using HTML Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator,
                 wrote CGI scripts using Perl, and created 2D/3D
                 animations using OpenGL, Open Inventor, and IDL.
                 Developed research related software using X-Motif,
                 C/C++, and IDL.  Optimized existing computer code in
                 IDL and C++, and helped co-workers with programming
                 questions.

PROJECTS
                Master's Thesis:
                 http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~grant/projects/mthesis/
                 The Lagrangian-Eulerian Advection (LEA) alogorithm is
                 extended to take the vertical motion of a 3D velocity
                 field into account and make it visible to the user.
                 The proposed technique is compared and contrasted
                 with existing techniques to show its importance.

                IVTrace:
                 http://www.ivtrace.org/
                 An API for creating photo realistic images with any
                 Open Inventor scene. It provides an interface to
                 create a scanline ray tracer and an interactive 3D
                 ray traced / globally illuminated scene.

                3D Grapher:
                 http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~grant/projects/3dgrapher/
                 An interactive tool for graphing three dimensional
                 analytic functions. A perfect example of how easily
                 applications can be built by subclassing the Open
                 Inventor libraries.

                Marching Cubes:
                 http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~grant/projects/mcubes/
                 A subclass of the Open Inventor SoEngine class for
                 generating isosurfaces from a given scalar field. The
                 engine provides an interface to easily create
                 isosurfaces using Open Inventor. 

EDUCATION
                Currently working towards a M.S. Computer Science, at
                Florida State University, graduation expected
                August 2002

                B.S. Computer Science, Florida State University,
                 GPA: 3.41
                B.S. Meteorology, Florida State University, GPA: 3.00
                Graduated: April 2000 

                Computer Science: Software Engineering, Photo-Realistic
                 Rendering, Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization,
                 Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Theory of
                 Computation, Digital Networks, Databases, Computer
                 Organization, Assembly Language

                Meteorology: Synoptic Meteorology, Atmospheric Dynamics,
                 Atmospheric Physics, Climatology 

                Mathematics: Calculus I-III, Discrete, Differential
                 Equations, Probability 

HONORS AND
AWARDS 
                Dean's List 
                3rd Place at FSU ACM Programming Contest, Spring 2000
                1st Place at FSU ACM Programming Contest, Fall 2000
                Represented FSU in 2000 ACM Southeastern Regional
                  Programming Contest
                2nd Place at FSU ACM Programming Contest, Fall 2001
                Represented FSU in 2001 ACM Southeastern Regional
                  Programming Contest

MEMBERSHIPS
                Golden Key National Honor Society 
                Association for Computing Machinery 
                Upsilon Pi Epsilon 

REFERENCES 
                Dr. James J. O'Brien
                Director
                Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies
                850-644-4581
                obrien@coaps.fsu.edu

                Dr. Mark A. Bourassa
                Associate Professor
                Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies
                850-644-6923
                bourassa@coaps.fsu.edu

                Dr. David C. Banks
                Associate Professor
                Department of Computer Science
                Florida State University
                850-644-0183
                banks@cs.fsu.edu

                Dr. Gordon Erlebacher
                Professor
                School of Computational Science & Information Technology
                Florida State University
                850-644-0186
                erlebach@csit.fsu.edu

                David A. Gaitros
                Associate Chair
                Department of Computer Science
                Florida State University
                850-644-4055
                gaitrosd@cs.fsu.edu