Juan Lam 🧙‍♂️ Email & Phone Number

Miami, Fl, Us

Gainesville, Florida, United States

As of August 2023, I have been working part time with the University of Florida's Semiconductor lab in order to create interactive educational experiences in both virtual reality and browser-based platforms, as well as working to create the Semiconductor Lab's digital twin in VR

As Lead XR Developer at Dragon Federation I led the VR development team in the creation of the Dragon Federation "First Night" Demo experience, managed the VR and Mobile App team's tasks and sprints, and worked on prototyping AR interactions with our lovely dragon in the Quest 3 using Unreal Engine, while also designing the systems and interactions that the company will build on moving forward.

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

At Dragon Federation, I have been taken on as a part time freelance associate producer in order to help the team construct a demo experience to showcase to potential investors and Dragon Federation's growing user base.I manage the VR team, AR team, and keep an eye on key game design aspects in order to make sure the whole project is on track to succeed. I have led the following efforts:- Created the demo experience Game Design Document and Technical Flow- Worked with the VR development team on the technical implementation of the design document- Worked with the animation team in order to create a robust, dynamic, and expressive animation system for the dragon that works with the VR Dev Team's implementation- Managed the AR team as they developed the Unity AR app for mobile- Set up Dragon Federation's task management system through Jira

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Helped to organize and oversee undergraduate student efforts in making apps for the University of Florida Literacy Institute. The apps revolve around the core literacy curriculum and the digitization of UFLI's word work mats.

Gainesville, Florida, United States

From January 2023 - May 2023 I lead a team of four in the creation of a graduate capstone project titled "The Sea is a Sky": a 10-minute narrative VR experience where you must row through dreams and storms as a young Cuban woman escaping her home and seeking a better future. This project won the Social Impact award at CHI Play 2023 in the Student Game Design Competition!Roles- Programmed all VR interactions using Blueprints.- Made extensive use of level sequences and other cinematic tools in UE5 to put together the entire experience.- Worked on optimization and thus became proficient with Unreal Engine profiling tools.Skills: Unreal Engine 5: Blueprints, Level Sequences, Optimization

High Noon Air Hockey is a tech demo for a multiplayer haptics-driven VR game based on the classic Air Hockey arcade game, using a physical table as the basis for the interactions.My roles included setting up Unity XR Interaction Toolkit implementation, establishing the table orientation, and working on the puck interactions.I worked with Logan Kemper (the chief multiplayer developer) to implement XR Interactions and the table orientation, as well as the gameplay design.

At the Blockchain Acceleration Foundation, I oversaw content distribution, created blog posts and covered important projects

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Reorganized Parmac’s entire client documentation standard from the ground up, mapped the networks of over 80 clients using a command line interface, and created comprehensible and intuitive diagrams of those networks for all clients using Microsoft’s Visio.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Digital Arts And Sciences

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Language And Literature/Letters

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