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Oakland, California, Us

- Prepare and serve high-quality traditional espresso drinks.- Efficiently communicate with coworkers across the cafe’s 3 physical locations to share stock and cover breaks with limited managerial oversight.

Berkeley, California, Us

- Designed and scripted levels, heroes, enemies, bosses, and meta systems for live-ops of a free-to-play Tower Defense game with ~80K DAU.- Balanced and expanded an existing roster of over 20 heroes to correctly scale from new player onboarding to ever-expanding, high level, competitive gameplay.- Documented the game’s code base and developed tools for procedural content creation.ommunicated with veteran players and managed a public Discord server to better identify/understand the needs of our audience and test our designs before releasing them.- Rapidly prototyped and provided design critique for unreleased IP and game systems targeted at the synchronous-competitive multiplayer mobile market.- Worked with external partners to expand our existing IP and onboard new players into each parties’ existing ecosystem of products.

Berkeley, California, Us

Berkeley, California, Us

− Assisted in selling books, arts, and handicrafts created by the collective’s currently incarcerated artists at local community events for funds that are then sent directly back to the artist’s commissary accounts or family members.− Acted as on-the-ground event support for vendors and staff during the collective’s own fundraising events and gallery openings.

Seattle, Wa, Us

− Maintained a carefully manicured storefront while preparing drinks for hundreds of hurried and particular customers.− Trained new employees to prepare and serve a wide variety of recipes in line with the corporation's expected methods.

− Prepared and served traditional espresso drinks, sandwiches, salads, and breakfast items.− Assisted in back of house operations during comedy open-mic nights and private events.

− Positively represented the shop through engaging with customers and making quality drinks.− Communicated and promoted enthusiasm about coffee preparation and consumption.− Ensured a clean and welcoming café environment for customers.

− Programed tools for use during the live-streams of both biweekly tournaments and major events.− Talked openly about my involvement and encouraged others to attend our tournaments.− Interacted with talent and solved technical issues during events.

Bloomington, In, Us

- Assisted in teaching Unreal Engine 4 and Construct 2 to groups of 30+ children aged 13 – 17. - Solved problems that campers encountered while working on their games. - Ensured the safety of campers when navigating the campus.

Bloomington, In, Us

- Installed and maintained game development hardware and software. - Checked in/out game development tools (ex: controllers, tablets, and VR Headsets) to students. - Created a schedule for each Game Lab Monitor and confirm all shift trades.

- Lead a team of 6 in the development of a 3D flight and sound exploration game built in Unity3D. - Prototyped and iterated designs quickly while taking the feedback of play testers into consideration. - Scripted the behavior of game objects in C# while leveraging FMod for sound generation.

− Edited and formatted class materials so that they were accessible to students that are blind or have low vision.− Helped to develop training materials for new Accessibility Editors. - Communicated quickly with teammates to solve novel and time sensitive problems. - Learned effective strategies for evaluating the accessibility of technologies.

Bloomington, Indiana, Us

− Led weekly discussion sections that facilitated further comprehension of course concepts.− Met with students to assist in drafting and editing class essays.

− Assisted in managerial duties such as opening/closing procedures, taking inventory, and ensuring quality results of student employees− Trained new employees in customer service, food preparation, and working as a team

- Prepared and served food to several hundred students per day - Provided customers with a clean and safe dining environment

Bachelor’S Degree, Game Design

Bachelor’S Degree, Cognitive Science