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Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

- Developed creative and technical solutions for 10+ workflows within 3+ digital content creation applications including Maya, Houdini, and Substance Painter, quickly solving artist needs in a fast-paced production environment.- As communication bridge between cross-functional leads of 3+ internal teams consisting of 40+ artists, identified requirements, established solutions scope, estimated work, and scheduled deliverables.- Mentored a team of over 5 Python engineers, sharing… Show more - Developed creative and technical solutions for 10+ workflows within 3+ digital content creation applications including Maya, Houdini, and Substance Painter, quickly solving artist needs in a fast-paced production environment.- As communication bridge between cross-functional leads of 3+ internal teams consisting of 40+ artists, identified requirements, established solutions scope, estimated work, and scheduled deliverables.- Mentored a team of over 5 Python engineers, sharing expertise and overseeing the entire software development lifecycle from design through deployment, and maintenance.- Designed, architected, implemented and maintained a 3D asset pipeline (front-end and back-end) in Python to reduce technical debt and allow flexible adaptation to studio needs.- Established and improved continuous integration and deployment of 10+ repositories through Gitlab CI/CD, utilizing YAML scripts, Docker, and Rez and exposing key metrics for maintainability including Unit testing coverage, code format, code complexity, and architectural standards.- Established Unit Testing standards and implemented Continuous integration to expose key metrics toward maintainability include, code complexity, code formatting, testing coverage, and following architecture standards.- Automated jobs, environment setup, and application installation through Python and Deadline on Linux and Windows systems.- Maintained and simplified studio-wide Universal Scene Description (USD) composition stack for 100s of assets across active productions utilizing USD API and DCC applications' native integrations. Show less

Austin, Texas, United States

- Led a remote team of 3 other engineers in creating a .NET based 3D body reconstruction system for apparel, following industry-standard software engineering principles and Agile development methodologies.- Integrated RGBD image data from 9+ Azure Kinects and other devices using computer vision and image processing to create rigged, textured body models for ingestion into real-time Unity application.- Independently implemented cutting-edge research findings from 3+ papers, demonstrating… Show more - Led a remote team of 3 other engineers in creating a .NET based 3D body reconstruction system for apparel, following industry-standard software engineering principles and Agile development methodologies.- Integrated RGBD image data from 9+ Azure Kinects and other devices using computer vision and image processing to create rigged, textured body models for ingestion into real-time Unity application.- Independently implemented cutting-edge research findings from 3+ papers, demonstrating strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills in an ambiguous environment. Show less

Greater Salt Lake City Area

- Co-published 2+ papers including one in IEEE VR, using Unity and Vuforia to develop Augmented Reality Experiences deployed on Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap One for over 100 participants.- Deployed research experiences across 5 different AR/VR devices including Magic Leap One, Oculus Rift, and Microsoft Hololens- Migrated presentation of multiple AR experiences from Microsoft Hololens to Magic Leap One- Collaborated with scientists, researchers, and participants to ensure… Show more - Co-published 2+ papers including one in IEEE VR, using Unity and Vuforia to develop Augmented Reality Experiences deployed on Microsoft HoloLens and Magic Leap One for over 100 participants.- Deployed research experiences across 5 different AR/VR devices including Magic Leap One, Oculus Rift, and Microsoft Hololens- Migrated presentation of multiple AR experiences from Microsoft Hololens to Magic Leap One- Collaborated with scientists, researchers, and participants to ensure data-collection goals were met through intuitive automated prompts throughout AR/VR experiences Show less

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

- Built composable visualization (and user interface) for geospatial movement with time-varying data.- Optimized geospatial simulation performance in Unity through a custom GPU shader.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

- Analyze Student Code for good coding practices- Develop Students' understanding of fundamental Object-Oriented Programming concepts through class instruction, and one-on-one interaction.

Coeur D Alene, Idaho

Built and deployed Virtual Reality navigation and object manipulation systems across a range of devices (3+) using C++ and OpenVR.

Utilized communication skills in troubleshooting faculty hardware/software issues.Developed teamwork skills while researching and correcting hundreds of uncommon problems.Maintained Computers throughout College of Fine Arts and Communications.

Design, testing and optimization of lithium niobate waveguides.

Coeur D Alene, Idaho

- Enhanced a real-time Physically Based Rendering engine with 3+ additional texturing options by utilizing knowledge of OpenGL and 3D graphics software.- Collaborated with internal content team, development team, and testing team to implement user-friendly yet powerful tools for ingesting High Dynamic Range (HDR) images.

Learned to build front-end graphical user interfaces in the Java language.Learned and developed under a SCRUM development model.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Quantitative Experience Design Laboratory - examining Virtual Reality and Virtual Agent Interactions Course.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering, 3.92

Activities and Societies: Women in Computer Science (Newsletter Officer), Eta Kappa Nu, IEEE, Tau Beta Pi, ACM