Renaud Bourassa » Work Term http://renaudbourassa.com/blog Welcome to my World. Here, I am the Architect. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:45:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 East Side, West Side http://renaudbourassa.com/blog/2012/01/10/east-side-west-side/ http://renaudbourassa.com/blog/2012/01/10/east-side-west-side/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:23:04 +0000 Rhino http://renaudbourassa.com/blog/?p=625 It has been nearly a year since I wrote my last post while travelling to Istanbul. It thus seems like an appropriate time to refresh this blog with some sort of update about what I have been up to.

After a stop in Manhattan over the summer where I interned at Bloomberg, I am now in Redmond, WA working for the tech giant that is Microsoft. Spending the summer living in the West Village, at the heart of New York City, has been an incredible experience. It is a beautiful city that never ceases to surprise you with new things to do. Getting the opportunity to work at Bloomberg on risk analysis was also an interesting experience.

However, after four months in a forest of glass and concrete, Redmond and its giant trees already feels like a nice break. There I have joined the Xbox team, with which I will be spending the next four months. My goal for this internship is to try something different and gain as much knowledge about the field as possible. I don’t know much about the specifics of the project I will be working on, but I already received my Xbox gear to practice in the meantime.

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Talking about changes, you probably noticed that I changed the design of my website. I wasn’t happy with the color scheme anymore so I changed to something lighter. Again, I am not a photoshop pro so I kept it simple with a minimalist look. It should also be easier to browse. The rest of the website should follow soon. I am still working on bits of the wordpress template, but as soon as I am happy with the result, I will start working on the other parts of the website.

On another note, I finished my first year at the university of Waterloo. I am going back home tomorrow for my first work term. I will work as a software developer for Artificial Mind and Movement, an independent video game studio in downtown Montreal. It should be great. I will be part of the Wii/PS2 engine team, so I should do more technical work than what I am used to. I hope I will learn a lot. It also means a change of language. I will get to practice my C++ a bit more. As I like to think: there is nothing like practical work to learn a new language. I hope I am not wrong…

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