Richard Kiss has opened at comedy clubs:
- LA Comedy Club at Bally's, Las Vegas
- Big Al's Comedy Club, Las Vegas
- Punch Line, San Francisco
Richard has performed on TV:
- Creepy KOFY Movie Time, KOFY TV 20, San Francisco
- Pleezz Believe, KTUD TV 25.1, Las Vegas
Radio:
- guest on The Nick Bonsanto Show on Sports Byline USA Network, 2013
- guest on "Ben Feldman Presents: Ben Feldman's The Ben
Feldman Show, with Ben Feldman, and Candy Churilla and Microphones",
Pirate Cat Radio, San Francisco, many times between 2008-2010
- guest on "Rocking Comedy Show", podcast, Las Vegas, 2012
- guest on "What's So Funny?" with host Guy MacPherson, CFRO 102.7 FM,
Vancouver, December 2008
Other Clubs
- Rooster T Feathers, Sunnyvale, California
- Bonkerz, Las Vegas
- Bunjo's, Dublin, California
- Castagnola's, San Francisco
- Yuk Yuk's, Vancouver
- San Jose Improv
- COBO, Oakland, California
- Purple Onion, San Francisco
- Stand Up Scottsdale, Scottsdale, Arizona
- Tommy T's, Pleasanton, California
- The Comedy Mix, Vancouver
- Comedy Spot, Phoenix, Arizona
- Cobb's, San Francisco
- Comedy Store, Los Angeles
- Stand Up New York
Bars
- Meatheads, Las Vegas
- Comet Club, San Francisco
- MVP's, Las Vegas
- The Layover
Restaurants
- Angelica's Bistro, Redwood City, California
Casino
- Alliante Station, Las Vegas
- Sam's Town, Las Vegas
- Winner's Casino, Winnemucca, Nevada
- Rio Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas
- Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas
Lounge
- Kaliopi Hookah Lounge, Las Vegas
Radio
- Pirate Cat Radio, San Francisco
Theater
- Our Little Theater, San Francisco
- Alexis Park, Las Vegas
Corporate
- Elks Lodge, Watsonville, California
- Sanders Winery, Pahrump, Nevada
College
- 750 Pub, Stanford, Califonia
Richard used to be a math and physics whiz kid. He still knows a few things about a few things.
- awarded honorable mention in the UBC essay contest for grade twelve students
- placed first in British Columbia, 40th in North America out of 400,000 on the American High School Mathematics Exam
- placed fourth in Canada out of 8000 on the grade 12 Euclid math contest sponsored by the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- awarded Honourable mention William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, tied for 41.5 place of 2700 North American math students
- one of five members of Canadian Physics Olympiad Team
- awarded the Simon Fraser University Entrance Scholarship, CDN$25,000 + tuition
- offered University of B.C. entrance scholarship worth CDN$20,000
- graduated Simon Fraser University (14,000 students), with an Honours BSc in Mathematics
- awarded Dean of Science Medal for highest science grade point average with a GPA of 4.21 (A+ = 4.33, A = 4.00)
- GRE scores: verbal 620/800, quantitative 800/800, analytical 790/800, math (subject) 990/990
- awarded Chancellor's graduate scholarship at UCLA, worth $12,500/year + all fees
- awarded an MA in Mathematics from UCLA
Richard Kiss is a software generalist. His current interests primarily include web development with jQuery, Django, Tornado and Python-based tools. He enjoys both high-level architectural design of scalable systems, and detail work.
A selection of tools he loves include Python, Django, tornadoweb, JavaScript, jQuery, git, Mac OS X and Linux.
Richard authored and maintains pycoin and pycoinnet, Python-based bitcoin utility libraries, and is available for bitcoin consulting.
Work Experience
Director of Network Engineering, BigPark
- designed, implemented, deployed and debugged web presence and persistence API for BigPark's web-based Flash games
Software Engineer, Health Hero Network
- designed, developed, implemented, tested and debugged embedded 68K ROM software using Metrowerks CodeWarrior, Mac OS 8, MPW, FreeBSD workstations, Solaris, EPROM burners, hardware debugging boards, serial communications hardware, modems, Linux, Perforce source-code control system, lex, yacc, the GCC C compiler, emacs
- developed, tested Java-based web applications using WebLogic, Java tools, Solaris
- proposed, designed, developed, implemented, tested and debugged web-based applications using WebObjects, EOF and OpenStep; used Mac OS X server, GCC Objective-C compiler, webscript, HTML, Oracle database
- proposed, designed, developed, implemented, tested and debugged call center using Python, WebObjects, FreeBSD, call-center multi-serial port hardware, modems, OpenSSL
Creator of Macintosh Shareware
- "HTML Colors" application
- "Autothenticate" system extension
Software Engineer, Mpath Interactive, Inc.
- TCP network, encryption, Solaris, Windows NT, Perl, Java programming
Software Engineer, Catapult Entertainment, Inc.
- reverse-engineered Super Nintendo 65816 assembly language games and patched them to be compatible for play over phone lines with Catapult's XBAND 2400 baud modem
- created generalized communications, patching and XBAND OS interface library in 65816 assembly language
- created and documented Sega Saturn XBAND game library for use with Sega's 14400 baud modem, in C++ & SH-2 assembly, which reliably transmits game data, with error checksum and correction, and ensures minimal latency
Developer Support Engineer for Sony Computer Entertainment
- set up and maintained the Developer Support BBS, responded to developers' queries about Sony PlayStation hardware, development libraries and tools
- one of three technical representatives for Sony in North America
- developed, debugged and examined sample code in C, C++ and MIPS R3000
Software Engineer for Electronic Arts Canada
- programmed assembly language library routines for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and various utilities
Software Engineer for Distinctive Software Inc.
- programmed assembly language library routines for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Genesis
High School
- sold two articles and programs to a computer magazine
Richard has been a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada since 2010. Besides stand-up comedy, and computer programming, Richard also enjoys karaoke, basketball, puzzles and making lists of things he likes to do.