Jon Wade Email & Phone Number

Canada

Studio Slime is a small game studio making big co-op fun. As a co-founder I handle many tasks on the production of our first title. My work includes developing procedural world generation & environmental systems, custom tool development, game optimization, and a dabbling of technical art.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Media & AR/VR - Ensuring our merchants have the best capabilities and tools to tell stories about their brands, products, and values• Evolved media support on the platform by laying a long-term path to unifying a fragmented media management experience for our merchants• Shipped numerous UX, API, and underlying infrastructure changes to improve the experience of using, manipulating, and deploying images, video and 3D models on Shopify powered stores

Ottawa, Canada Area

Transitioned from coding to product management as consumer AR became viable• Shipped initial support for 3D models on Shopify as an in-house app. This release coincided with the release of Apple's AR Quicklook functionality on iOS. A number of our merchants were prominently featured over the following months as marquee use cases• Eventually worked on transitioning the app-based support for 3D models into a first class citizen on the Shopify platform including integration in the core UX and the various APIs available to developers• During the development of native 3D support we also greatly enhanced the support for video on the platform in parallel

Ottawa, Canada Area

Worked with a small research team to examine many issues in the early days of consumer VR & AR with a specific focus on the UX of spatial computing• Co-created a repaid prototyping framework (on top of Unreal Engine 4) called Expo to facilitate rapid iteration in a collaborative networked VR environment• You can get a peek at what went on during this time at https://medium.com/shopify-vr

Ottawa, Canada Area

• Lead technical development of graduate and honours students’ research experiments. Crafted experiments using technologies chosen in accordance with experiment needs and complexity from a breadth of gaming, simulation and proprietary sources• Made key recommendations for guiding exploratory VR/AR research. Maintained up-to-date knowledge of hardware devices, software tool kits, and human factors issues in order to provide informed recommendations on the applicability of VR to various psychology research and aviation simulation problems• Collaborated with a team of developers to evolve complex and computationally distributed aircraft simulators used for academic, government and industry experimentation. Responsible for tasks ranging from low-level architecture debugging to user-facing tool planning and development• Efficiently mentored students in understanding their experiment’s technical development. Carrying out this multi-stage process included recommending candidate technologies during concept refinement, clearly communicating implementation details including limitations and measurement precision issues, ensuring students were well informed of the state of software during rapid prototype iteration, and collaborating on output validation• Performed numerous IT administration and hardware procurement tasks within a small-team environment

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Collaborated on the development of a simulation framework employed by multiple aircraft platforms across Department of National Defense sites for training and rehearsal. • Lead development of front-end instructor/operator tools for numerous simulation platforms. UX development, protocol design and development, etc. Over the years included tools built using C++, C#, and web frameworks.• Implemented simulations of numerous aircraft systems including avionics, digital/voice communications, and user interface logic• Provided on-site support for simulators produced by the company in large, distributed exercises for both Canadian and multinational simulation events