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Remote

* Implement client side SDK for our backend services (telemetry, accounts, token management) in Unreal Engine and C# (for Unity).* Integrate SDK into partner studio projects.* Provide team leadership and mentorship.* Established team-wide coding standards and practices.

Sparks Glencoe, Maryland, United States

* Rapidly prototyped abilities and combat systems using the UE5 Gameplay Ability System.* Set up data driven animation resolution system.* Established technical direction for combat gameplay systems and implemented key features.* Tuned enemy gameplay AI for fun and performance.* Worked with design leadership to establish gameplay backlog for milestone deliverables.* Led prioritization of gameplay work to deliver the best gameplay experience for different milestone deliverables.

Sparks Glencoe, Maryland, United States

* Implemented numerous RPG gameplay systems (Hunter Balance, friendship system, and assisted with the quest system, dialogue system).* Implemented sequenced visualization system for Abbey portion of the game.* Designed and implemented narrative content experiences for the player to enjoy in the Abbey (Club Meetings, Magik's Birthday Party, Team Building Event, Seance of Agatha Harkness).* Worked with design leadership on all aspects of game design, including enemy and hero abilities, player progression systems, ecology systems, friendship systems, and exploration systems.* Implemented ability previewing system for the Tactical Combat portion of the game.

Sparks Glencoe, Maryland, United States

* Maintained and added new functionality to asset creation tools.* Reworked existing C++/C# interop layer to match common Managed lifetime patterns.* Implemented a curve editor.

Sparks, Md

* Integrated Unreal Pathfinding into projects, and added support for run-time generation of Navigation Bounds, Volumes, and Agent Providers for a procedural terrain system.* Implemented various gameplay features and functionality.* Implemented a 'Smart Location' system where units could acquire a context-specific behavior based on where they moved.* Implemented unit AI behaviors, including pathfinding, target/ability selection, and AI ecology systems.* Created gameplay automation systems and set up automated testing.* Set up automated memory profiling with daily reports on PC and PS4.* Set up an unintelligent automatic game testing system in UE4 allowing an autonomous agent to interact with the game as if they were using a controller.

Sparks, Md

* Created the artist-facing Content Pipeline Tools for Sid Meier's Civilization VI using C# 4.0 and the Sony ATF Framework.* Wrote Perforce integration layer and incorporated automated Perforce management into the content tools.* Wrote importing tools (including bulk importers) for different source-types (textures, geometry) into consistent intermediate formats to be transformed by the asset cooking process.* Wrote the tool-side asset previewer, including customization options for changing the preview environment.* Implemented asset browsing tool with tag-based and best-fit word matching algorithms.* Designed and implemented Art Data Loader for Sid Meier's Civilization VI, loading packages in dependency order and parallelizing package loading where possible.

Sparks, Md

* Wrote a Photoshop plug-in for exporting images to a DDS format.* Wrote an Automation Photoshop plug-in to transform complex images into multiple DDS files.* Worked on the initial design of the Asset Pipeline to be used for Sid Meier's Civilization VI.

Baltimore, Md

* Worked through the full product life-cycle of the Eccentron, gathering requirements, writing designs, and implementing core functionality in the areas of: hardware abstraction (using LABJACK and Serial I/O); asynchronous data gathering from physical sensors, transforming it, and storing it using an MSSQL back-end; in-session diagnostic testing and tracking, including "game" functionality (using SharpDX); post-session generated reports (using WPF).** For this project, I worked both on the back-end behavior as well as the user interface using WPF.* Worked on a binary data converter to transform data from the format of a legacy program to a new program.* Reworked database schemas for efficiency and developer clarity.+ Eccentron: http://www.btetech.com/eccentron.htm ; http://www.btetech.com/lit/collateral/BTE-Eccentron-Software-Overview.pdf

Baltimore, Md

I was responsible for writing a comprehensive regression scripting library for the Primus.NET and EvalTech software projects, increasing the readability of legacy code, writing test cases, and performing verification testing.In addition to the above duties, I worked on creating requirements and a design for an addition to the Primus, and created numerous automation tools for installations and maintenance (using LUA).

Umbc Campus

I tutored students in Computer Science I (Python language, basic programming skills, functions, string manipulation, lists, and recursion), Computer Science II (Java language, object-oriented programming and design, including inheritance, polymorphism, and generics) and Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis (covering the performance characteristics and properties of lists, binary trees, binary search trees, splay trees, red-black trees, skip lists, binary heaps, hash tables, disjoint sets, and graphs).