User:Djrowden

Darrell Rowden Biography

 * This is the user page for Darrell Rowden Jr. I am 29 years old and am a resident of Dallas, Texas. During my free time, I enjoy reading, playing video games, practicing my skills with Adobe Photoshop and spending time with my friends.


 * I have been living in Dallas since the Summer of 2000 after graduating from Hooks High School. I began attending college at the University of Texas at Dallas not long after moving here and remained there until graduating in Fall of 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in Art & Technology.  While there I took part in various extracurricular activities and was an active college student.


 * In the summer of 2004 I began working for Terminal Reality Inc., a video game developer formerly located in Lewisville, TX, as a QA Tester and Database Entry specialist. While employed there for the first time, I entered all the bugs found by all testers into the company database for the video game BloodRayne 2. While working there I continued as a full-time student at the University of Texas at Dallas. After the project was finished, I left Terminal Reality and continued towards my Bachelor's Degree until I graduated in December of 2004. After graduation, I began working for Remedy Intelligent Staffing.  While there, I began a temporary assignment as a File Clerk working for Tuesday Morning Inc.  I worked there until the contract with Tuesday Morning ended, at which point I was offered another temporary QA Tester position at Terminal Reality.  This time I worked on the video game Aeon Flux.  After this project was completed I returned to Tuesday Morning as File Clerk again.  This time, I was able to become a full time employee.  After a couple of months, I was promoted to a HR Records Administrator.  I continued working at Tuesday Morning for two more years, until which point I was offered a full-time position at Terminal Reality as a Technical Support Specialist.  I worked for two years at Terminal Reality until I was laid off.  I then began working at the Telvista Inc Call Center as a Technical Support Representative for Verizon. After I ended my employment there I began working at Aerotek Staffing.  I began contract work for Mercer Consulting on behalf of American Airlines.

Hooks High School
I began attending Hooks High School in the Fall of 1996 and graduated in the Spring of 2000. While there I was a member of the Football Team for all four years and a member of the Powerlifting Team for my final two years. I was also chosen to participate in the Outstanding Young Man program by Delta Sigma Theta sorority during my senior year and earned a $500 scholarship towards my college tuition.

University of Texas at Dallas
I began attending the University of Texas at Dallas in the Fall of 2000 and graduated in the Fall of 2004. I graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Art & Technology. While there I was a charter member of school chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). I served as both the Secretary and as a Senator while I was a student. Beginning in the Fall of 2001, I began working at the School of Engineering & Computer Science as an Office Assistant under the Work Study Program. I worked as an Office Assistant for almost three years, during that time I was elected Student Employee of the Year on two separate occasions. The Intramural Flag Football that I was a member of also won the school Intramural Championship in 2003.

Terminal Reality Inc.
I initially began working at Terminal Reality in the Summer of 2004 as a QA tester and Database Entry specialist for BloodRayne 2. I worked there until the Fall of 2004. I then later returned in the Summer of 2005 as a QA Tester for Aeon Flux and remained until the Fall of 2005. I returned in the Spring of 2008 as a Technical Support Specialist. While there I also worked as a QA tester on multiple projects and also created Wiki tutorials and test plans for the company exclusive game engine the Infernal Engine. In the multiple times I was employed with Terminal Reality I worked on the following projects:


 * BloodRayne 2
 * Aeon Flux
 * Ghostbusters: The Video Game
 * Samurai Showdown Collections
 * Def Jam Rapstar
 * Infernal Engine

Tuesday Morning Inc.
I began working for Tuesday Morning Corporate Office in the Spring of 2005 and worked there until the Summer of 2005 as a temporary File Clerk. After I completed the contract I was offered a position at Terminal Reality as a QA Tester. I returned in the Fall of 2005 on a full time basis as a File Clerk until I was promoted to a HR Records Administrator a couple of months later. I remained in that position until the Spring of 2008 when I was offered a full-time position at Terminal Reality Inc.

Additional Info
These are some of the pictures I created in Photoshop:

I am also a fan of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and I have read the following books in the series:


 * The Eye of the World
 * Lord of Chaos
 * The Crown of Swords
 * ''A Path of Daggers
 * Winter's Heart
 * Crossroads of Twilight
 * Knife of Dreams
 * The Gathering Storm

Unfortunately I started in the middle of the series, but I've started back at the beginning and will catch up soon.

I also own several video game systems. I currently own a Xbox 360, Nintendo Gamecube, Playstation 2 and a Nintendo DS. I previously owned a Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sony Playstation and two Nintendo Gameboys. I have been playing video games since I was six and have amassed a large collection. I am currently a fan of the Mass Effect and Batman: Arkham series of games.

References

Screenshots were provided by the following:

Hooks High School website - www.hooksisd.net

University of Texas at Dallas website - www.utdallas.edu

Terminal Reality Inc. website - www.terminalreality.com

Tuesday Morning Inc. website - www.tuesdaymorning.com