Blake Hood

Professional Experience

Shadowstep Studios Shreveport, LA

Co-owner, lead developer
October 2014 - March 2016
  • Developed and co-designed Parsec, a space exploration and colony management game that was canceled

Praeses, LLC Shreveport, LA

Web developer
February 2013 - October 2014
  • Worked on several web applications utilizing C#.Net and Ruby on Rails
  • Co-designed a framework to ease database context maangement within applications
  • Made an inventory management system for a major regional retailer
  • Developed a touch-scren time management aplication for a large national ship builder
  • Co-created the Shreveport-Bossier Fun Guide

Laboratory for Advanced Biomedical Informatics LSUS, Shreveport, LA

Research assistant
May 2009 - February 2012
  • Developed a program for tracking platelets through blood vessels from video
  • Created an algorithm for drastically reducing noise in images

Education

Louisiana State University in Shreveport

  • Master of Science in Computer Systems Technology, Software Development concentration
    • Graduated December 2013
    • 4.0 GPA
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
    • Graduated December 2012
    • 3.52 GPA

References available upon request