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Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Miami, Florida, United States

• Designed a sandbox navigated using a ray gun that shrinks and grows objects, keeping in mind player progression through the areas and providing opportunities for the player to discover how to obtain collectibles.
• Created each area of the house focused around a specific function, maintaining believability in the space and coming up with platforming puzzles that follow real-world logic.
• Integrated the Blueprint code of our team of three level designers into a single player character and used Maya to modify meshes and Unreal to create new collisions for them.

Orlando, Florida, United States

• Designed levels with stealth gameplay in mind, utilizing analysis and iteration to reach project goals.
• Wrote and drew multiple mechanic pitches, prototyped and bug fixed mechanics, created action blocks for initial mechanic implementation, and gave feedback to programmers and tech designers as a part of the design.
• Wrote and implemented spoken dialogue and narrative scenes, directing emotional beats of the story through gameplay.

Orlando, Florida, United States

• Created and painted real world terrain using topographical data of the Strait of Gibraltar and L3DT to reach a level of realism, a goal for the game.
• Implemented suggestions from the development team and subject matter experts to maintain balance between realism and gameplay.

• Assisted staff in needed tasks as they came up.
• Worked with students in assigning them housing as spaces became available.

• Studied the registration and admission processes of the Intensive English Program to find and act on potential areas of improvement.
• Conducted interviews and examined relevant data to streamline the use of databases involved.
• Developed a short-term VBA program and laid groundwork for future software solutions.

• Oversaw the front desk of the central office that provides students with resources for housing, both on-campus and off-campus.
• Worked in customer service to students and parents both in-person and over the phone.
• Assisted in other duties such as new freshmen move-in, hiring of new staff, and general office tasks.

• Managed daily operations of the reception desk of a residential area for summer conferences including check-in/out.
• Solved any problems that arose within a program that houses more than 2,000 guests from programs primarily involving youth camps.
• Prepared rooms with other staff both before and after their stay.

• Managed daily operations of the reception desk of a residential area for summer conferences including check-in/out.
• Solved any problems that arose within a program that houses more than 2,000 guests.
• Prepared rooms with other staff both before and after their stay.

Master'S Degree, Game And Interactive Media Design

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Industrial Engineering

Activities and Societies: Association of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Disney Leadership Institute, Engineering Advisory Board (Secretary).

International Baccalaureate Program

Activities and Societies: Key Club, Drug Free Youth in Town (DFYIT), IBIS Foundation