Steven R. Craig, Jr.

West End, Roatan, Honduras • www.thescubageek.com • steve@thescubageek.com • (504) 8871-7516

• Goal-driven, efficient problem-solver who develops creative solutions
• Articulate communicator and team player with significant international work experience
• Motivated self-starter capable of rapidly acquiring new knowledge and skills
• Determined achiever who saves time, engenders enthusiasm, and produces quality results

• Initiated start-up freelance website developer business catering to Roatan’s tourism industry
• Negotiated contracts with local business in the diving industry and other sectors
• Programmed dynamic site content in PHP and HTML via mySQL databases
• Created secure LAMP web application to facilitate customer-based site management
• Developed custom website layouts using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, and CSS
• Worked extensively with Google Map Javascript API and WordPress PHP API
• Designed high-quality business cards, flyers, and other print media in Adobe Photoshop
• Managed Google Adwords and Analytics accounts
• Generated thousands of dollars in online sales for local businesses
• Aggressively promoted Roatan tourism online to counter the Global Recession of 2008 and the Honduran Coup d’Etat of 2009

• Created multithreaded network monitoring and administrative tool for Massively Multiplayer Online video game engine
• Designed graphical user interfaces using in-house C++ graphics API based on Windows MFC
• Monitored real-time network traffic and servers for live Massively Multiplayer Online video game
• Implemented visualizations for mySQL-based data mining allowing system administrators to view player demographics, distributions, and behaviors in real-time
• Designed dynamic, reusable widgets such as bar graphs, histograms, and 3D graphs for real-time network data visualization
• Modified in-house graphics API for improved efficiency and more robust functionality
• Constructed unique icons, buttons, and widgets using Adobe Photoshop and in-house design tools
• Integrated scalable memory management via real-time data resampling to enable system monitoring tool to render over a year’s worth of data down to per-second resolutions
• Assembled customizable debugging test suite for stress-testing game account login servers
• Tested game mechanics for errors and submitted bug reports

• Certified recreational divers from PADI Open Water Diver up to Rescue Diver
• Trained PADI Divemasters through an intensive six-week internship program
• Personally certified over forty PADI Rescue Divers
• Increased shop sales through website marketing to account for up to 70% of total business sales
• Designed graphics and layouts for print media, including banners, posters, and flyers
• Wrote print copy for dive shop promotional material
• Assisted with shop maintenance and management
• Led certified recreational divers on fun dives

• Applied mathematical game theory toward generating cohesive dynamic narratives in video games
• Researched human-computer interaction in MMOs and single-player “sandbox” games
• Modeled user interaction with game environment as evolutionarily stable strategy sets
• Created schema for dynamic narratives based on strategy accommodation
• Evaluated user interaction for narrative accommodation via strategy set convergence
• Utilized pre-scripted perturbed equilibrium tactics for cohesive narrative transitions despite non-accommodating user interaction

• Programmed 3D miniature golf video game in Visual C++ using OpenGL graphics API
• Developed particle physics engine for modeling ball movement and emitted particles
• Implemented collision detection for static and dynamic objects
• Built simple import tool for 3DS Max static objects
• Created dynamic lighting model for bump-mapped textures
• Included modifiable files for creating customized golf courses