James Swanick Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Greater Philadelphia Area

- Programming sophisticated and experimental interactive experiences in Virtual Reality- Developing intuitive interactive design for VR applications - Fulfilling a Technical Artist role with skilled 3D artists to integrate AAA-quality assets into a real-time 3d engine.- Designing and building tools for faster and more flexible development of 3d and VR applications

Greater Philadelphia Area

- Developed interactive apps for augmenting experiences at museums and historical sites.- Built informative and engaging Augmented Reality experiences using Unity3d- Personally led technical development on complex projects as the sole programmer on the team- Collaborated extensively with 2D and 3D artists to integrate designs and assets into interactive apps- Designed and helped design interactive experiences for engagement and learning.

Phildelphia, Pa

- Used Agile team workflow to estimate task times and complete 2-week sprints- Collaborated with other engineers to tackle complex programming problems- Developed detailed use cases, and test modules prior to development of new features- Designed and Implemented reactive, readable and user-friendly UX designs- Updated, Extended, Improved, and Fixed code written by other engineers- Peer-reviewed code (and received peer-review) from other engineers before mergeWorked Extensively With:- React & Redux frameworks for reactive, self-updating UI with database integration- Javascript for web & mobile app scripting- Bootstrap & CSS for readable and elegant UI design- Django, python, and mySQL for database and server development & management- JIRA and Slack for agile team management and communication- Gerrit for team code-review and version control

Phildelphia, Pa

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - BioInformatics Philadelphia, PA March to September 2015- Designed a Docker container to automate collection and visualization of data- Built a Flask-based web service to launch, manage, and access user's visualized data- Designed a temporal database management tool used to track changes made to the structure of large database systems in a variety of formats- Implemented an Android App and an iOS app interface to allow a patient's parents to record video, provide analysis, and directly upload that data to CHOPWorked extensively with:- Docker for the containerization of complex processes- Java and Objective C for Mobile Development on iOS and Android- Python for database management, workspace automation, and scripting- Flask and HTML for building a multi-page web service