Dan Dao

Faculty, Game Design, Richland College

History with DCCCD

• Richland College’s dean of information technology from 2004 to 2006
  
• Instrumental in developing Richland’s Digital Forensics program
  

Educational Background

• Bachelor’s degree in speech pathology and audiology, University of Texas at Dallas
• Master’s degree in computer science, University of Texas at Dallas
  
• As a graduate student, wrote PC role-playing games and networked his neighborhood for multi-player games
  

Related Professional Experience

• Current research and development project is XNA Game Studio Express and DirectX
  
• Works in the e-commerce industry to develop secure codes that can withstand repeated attacks to test applications for security flaws
  
• Software programmer for Nortel and Ericsson Telecom Corridor corporations in the mid 1990s
  
• Wrote his first “Hello World” program at the age of 12 using Basic programming, a procedural language, before shifting to Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) with game programming languages in C++, Java, Unreal Scripts, Flash Action Scripts and Python
  

Areas Taught

• Interactive Simulation and Game Technology
• Cyber Security, including Digital Forensics
  
• Game Development Using C++
• Advanced Game Programming
• Game Simulation Programming
• Programming Fundamentals
• Unreal Engine 4