Dan Dao

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Program Coordinator and Lead Faculty, Multimedia Technology and Faculty, Game Design

History With DCCCD

• 2004-2006 - Served as Richland's dean of information technology
  
• Currently serves as faculty for two programs at Richland: Interactive Simulation and Game Technology and Cyber Security.
  

Educational Background

• Bachelor’s degree in speech pathology and audiology and master’s degree in computer science, University of Texas at Dallas
  

Related Professional Experience

• Wrote his first “Hello World” program at the age of 12 using Basic programming, a procedural language. Changing from the procedural method of thinking, he made the shift to Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) with game programming languages in C++, Java, Unreal Scripts, Flash Action Scripts and Python.
• Worked as a software programmer for Nortel and Ericsson Telecom Corridor corporations in the mid-1990s; transitioned into higher education in the late 1990s
  
• Was instrumental in developing Richland’s Cyber Security program. The program is a partnership between the college and the Cyber Security Education Consortium (CSEC) through a National Science Foundation Grant.
  
• Also works in the e-commerce industry to develop secure codes that can withstand repeated attacks to test applications for security flaws
  

Areas Taught:

• Game development
  
• Game programming
• Programming fundamentals
  
• C++
  
• Unreal Engine 4