Grace Willhoite is a Associate Gameplay Engineer - Narrative at Archetype Entertainment. Colleagues describe her as "I worked with Grace while she interned on Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes and couldn't have been more impressed with the drive she showed. She quickly became a valued member of the team and was an absolute pleasure to work with.", "I had the privilege of being Grace's mentor during her summer internship on the Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes team. Grace is an excellent communicator, has an immense passion for what she does, and has the drive to learn and grow. These attributes made it easy for her to fit in with our team and even caused a notable boost in morale. During her internship, Grace took on a complex engineering project in an area that she was very unfamiliar with. Throughout this project, Grace demonstrated her ability to learn and adapt, as well as her ability to act on feedback. In the end, Grace was able to deliver an impressive completed project. Her project benefited not just our team, but inspired other teams within EA, thanks to an excellent presentation at our organization's internship fair. It was a pleasure working with Grace during her internship. Grace has a very bright future in the industry, and I can't wait to see where her career takes her.", and "The Galaxy of Heroes team had the honor of hosting Grace as one of our interns for the EA 2020 Summer Internship Program. During her three months embedded in the client team she quickly integrated herself into the team processes, the code base and the team culture despite the COVID-19 work from home situation. Grace quickly proved that she was capable and quick to pick up areas of our code base. Within the first two days of being on the team, she already fixed a long outstanding audio bug that many of us had neglected to fix. In addition to the stack of bugs she was able to pull off our plates, she spearheaded a fairly impressive R&D project that garnered quite a bit of attention at the 2020 Summer Intern Project Fair. I attribute some of her success here on Galaxy of Heroes to her ability to effectively communicate and arriving prepared to meetings with a list of meaningful questions to be asked. Having been a manager for the last 8 years and interacting with many interns, Grace is unique in her ability to continually ask probing questions into how and why certain systems were implemented. On average, most interns are fairly reserved and afraid to question why certain decisions were made or approach more senior staff. Grace had no problem reaching out for guidance or support. I believe Grace still has a lot of opportunities for growth as a junior engineer and I feel as though the work from home situation impacted our ability to provide her more guidance in her professional development. Given a good supportive environment and a motivated and engaged team, Grace should flourish. Grace has shown that she fits in well with the game industry and that she is driven to succeed in it. I look forward to seeing what great things she will accomplish in the future."