Emily S. Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Working on creating video games and fun apps to gain knowledge and experience. (Console and Mobile). These games have been created for college group projects, college individual projects, and personal growth.

Working on Cookie Jam and Cookie Jam Blast!

San Diego, California, United States

Responsible for working on HGTV: MyDesign released in Uruguay, Philippians, Argentina, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway working with the core tech and feature development teams as well as central teams (QA, Localization, Game Services, Stores, Marketing, and more). -Created a new feature development pipeline and guided features from idea phase, to development kickoff, through release. -Worked with leads and directors to create achievable timelines and then transferred that to visual roadmap in Google Sheets and Trello.-Confidently lead game meetings: developer standup, game update meeting, leads meeting, bug triage meeting, sprint/week planning meetings, QA syncs, and more.-Owned Release Management: triaged and prioritized bugs, made detailed test requests, communicated with QA, created release tickets, responsible for giving “green light” to release.-Owned Branch Management: ensured commits across the team were landing in the correct places and aided in cherry picking to correct branches if they weren’t.-Was a go-to person to fix Unity, GIT, Fork, and Sourcetree errors for teammates.-Developed scripts to automate certain processes to increase productivity and be more efficient.-Successfully transferred the project from Scrum to Kanban in JIRA with the addition of Trello.-Earned numerous nominations and awards for Chef and Jam Citizen of the Week.

-Taught intro to web development and video game programming to high school females to encourage them to peruse a degree in STEM. -Worked on developing curriculum and taught it to other Code Queen Mentors. -Utilized multiple coding programs: TouchDevelop, MakeCode, Repl.IT, GameLab-Taught the students who wanted to move past block programming a basics of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.-At the end of the 13-16 week teaching sessions, the teams of girls which I mentored enter their projects into the Women's Extended Hackathon and each year I was the lead mentor for the Top 2 Grand Prize teams.

Responsible for assisting in various project and event coordination for Code Queens, QuestCT, Tech Summer Camps, and San Diego Women's Hackathon.

-Developed fun, engaging after school club and summer camp curriculum for 4th - 6th grade students focusing on block programming robots, games, and drones using Tynker, Scratch, Hopscotch, and Lego Mindstorm.-Helped other Computer Science students to become familiar with the curriculum. -Led afterschool club and summer camp activities.-Coordinated with elementary school teachers, mentors, and project leaders to ensure good organization and communication.-Responsible for building EV3 robots and ensuring all motors and sensors were working properly. -Responsible for checking drones to ensure propellers were working properly and batteries were charged.-Responsible for preparing various materials for myself and other mentors based on that week's curriculum.-Helped coordinate the Showcase where students got to show their family members what they've learned. I was deemed the "teacher favorite" by all the students as well as some of the elementary school teachers!