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Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Worked on creating an adaptation project based on a previous capstone student game. The idea was to take a project called Light Farm and change it to fit a new clients needs. This involved being a creative problem solver in adapting to the PEI farming landscape.- Proficiently communicated with client and management team.- Excelled in collaborating with co-workers.- Planned, Pitched, and Edited final product video to show to the client nearing completion of contract.- Worked on creating UI functionality that worked in a way which kept the user experience in mind.

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Creating a virtual human in a VR environment and a different version not in a VR environment.- Always Communicated clearly and concisely with the client and management team.- Collaborated with Coworkers, and client.- Created readable and scannable documents of the process. - Problem solved issues that arose collaboratively.- Project created for research purposes to understand the effects of a VR product compared to a non-VR product. Measure by the empathic responses each received.

Ottawa, Ontario

 Served as communications lead, ensuring project was completed on time and resolving any issues as they arose. Provided quality assurance testing, documenting and playtesting weekly builds thoroughly to ensure any major bugs were resolved and that no major or game-breaking bugs made it to release builds. Played a key role in blueprinting and designing a multitude of levels, ranging from simple tutorials to end game hard-to-accomplish level design while maintaining the flow of the game according to the game design document (GDD). Delivered rapid prototype modeling to playtest certain levels or features quickly, providing high-quality models for the polishing faze to bring the environment to life. Created a magnitude of textures for the low-detailed and high-detailed models, and played a key role in developing UVW and normal maps for models. Proactively updated the GDD with any changes the group made during meetings to ensure the documentation was current with the game. Coordinated the translation of requirements and needs into test plans and test scripts. Utilized extensive quality assurance skills to prepare test architecture to test various game features.  Designed and developed test plan, and test cases to ensure the games met design requirements. Efficiently loaded test and test data and executed test, validated results, managed defects and reported results. Prepared and published performance test results document to inform team members of the results. Communicated the status of key activities, risks and issues to team.

Honors Bachelor Of Game Design, Game And Interactive Media Design

Activities and Societies: Game analysis club

Advanced Diploma Degree, Game Devolpment

Activities and Societies: Algonquin College Competitive Gaming Club Learned a breadth of concepts about making games. Such as C#, C++.