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Los Angeles, CA, US

Redmond, Washington, US

• HoloLens Unreal - OpenXR
• Rearchitected the Unreal HoloLens plugin and Mixed Reality services to use OpenXR APIs in collaboration with the Microsoft OpenXR team and Epic's XR team.
• Implemented OpenXR Extensions in the Unreal HoloLens plugin, including Holographic Remoting, Spatial Mapping, Scene Understanding, Locatable Camera, Spatial Anchors, Speech Recognition, and QRCode Tracking.
• Integrated Mixed Reality Services in Unreal, including Azure Spatial Anchors, Azure Object Anchors, and Azure Remote Rendering.
• Owned the end-to-end release process to ship features and bug fixes for the Microsoft OpenXR plugin on GitHub and the Unreal Marketplace.
• Owned the HoloLens World Locking Tools plugin by maintaining the Unity implementation and porting to Unreal.

Redmond, Washington, US

• HoloLens Unreal - Windows Mixed Reality
• Created the Windows Mixed Reality plugin for Unreal, which allowed Unreal developers to target Microsoft's VR headsets and run HoloLens applications with HoloLens Remoting. Up until this point, HoloLens and Windows.
• Created the HoloLens plugin for Unreal, which allowed Unreal developers to natively target UWP on HoloLens 2.
• Built a relationship with the XR team at Epic to merge HoloLens support into the engine.
• Maintained HoloLens support over multiple Unreal engine releases and kept feature parity with the HoloLens platform offerings on Unity.
• Wrote Unreal plugins for all of Microsoft's Mixed Reality services, like Azure Spatial Anchors and Azure Remote Rendering.

Redmond, Washington, US

• HoloLens Spectator View
• Created an open-source project to enable streaming and recording high quality video of HoloLens applications from a third person perspective.
• Partnered with marketing teams to showcase HoloLens applications.
• Partnered with Build conference planners to showcase the HoloLens in the Holographic Academy, holographic photo booths, and HoloLens demo areas on the conference show floor.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Holographic Academy - HoloToolkit
• Created sample applications demonstrating HoloLens features.
• Taught external developers how to get started with HoloLens development in Microsoft's Holographic Academy.
• Primary point of contact for many early HoloLens adopters.
• Spoke and mentored in the Holographic Academy at multiple Build conferences.
• Abstracted Holographic Academy code into the HoloToolkit, which became the recommended starting point for HoloLens applications. This evolved into the Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK), which HoloLens developers still use.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Kinect for Windows - Kinect for Xbox One
• Responsible for runtime, functional, and stress testing the Kinect for Windows v1, v2, and Kinect for Xbox One APIs.
• Contributed to the Kinect plugin for Unity.

Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Systems Programming for Non-Majors (CS 2301)Held office hours, proctored labs, and graded homework and exams.

Santa Clara, CA, US

Automated testing on Tegra devices.This work was done as part of WPI's Major Qualifying Project (MQP) program:https://digital.wpi.edu/show/r207tq89r

Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Computer Graphics (CS 4731)Held office hours to help students with OpenGL projects.

Created an educational game for an exhibit on jousting using Microsoft XNA Game Studio. Focus was on the creation of a modular game engine allowing for easily imported content.

Ipswich, MA, US

Worked in the IT department on an internal tech support web application written in asp.net with C#.net and VB.net backends. I added additional functionality to the application from user requirements.

AU

Analyzed demographic data using SQLite to determine how well the organization was doing with respect to reaching their goal of carbon neutrality and offered suggestions for how to increase community involvement.This work was done as part of WPI's Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP) program:https://digital.wpi.edu/show/5d86p073m