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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Remote, Us

Running the volunteer project MANTRASet up the core vision for the project, architected many of the core systems, mentoring and guiding jr designers.

Madison, Wi, Us

Design Tools Team 07-23 : 01-24- Worked in Lead role, mentoring Tech Designers while helping guide the project vision- Built player controller for third person shooter- Wrote documentation to help explain systems I built for Level and Tech design- Set up animation blueprints, behavior trees, materials, weapons systemsUnannounced FPS 03-23 : 07-23- Designed new creature factions- Designed fodder to minibosses- Helped drive innovative and unique designsNew World 01-22 : 03-23- Designing AI Creatures for New World- Designing in world interactive objects that change combat encounters- Reworking several existing creatures- Scripting behavior trees and handling other technical processes for creature implementation

- Designing Levels with a focus on unique and interesting puzzles.- Scripting gameplay events and animated sequences.- Designing and scripting AI.- Scripting systems for narrative setpieces.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

- Testing the UI and UX of Madden 21- Collaborating in team meetings, taking notes and dispersing them to the rest of the team- Participating in build reviews, collaborating with devs to ensure quality bugs are dropped- Working with teammates to ensure best practices are shared, and each teammate grows

- Built Level Design tools to meet the needs of the design team, these tools reduced iteration time and drastically improved performance.- Designed accessible camera system that allows players to play the game without needing to manually control the camera.- Designed user interface for cosmetic purchasing system.- Created systems and tools to allow easy implementation of new assets for cosmetic system.- Designed and implemented improved tools for saving players progress with collectible collection.- Crafted user interface for unlocking rewards and puzzles in in-game hub level.- Collaborated with Creative Director to create tutorial level that successfully engaged a wide audience.- Tuned player movement and controls to provide for a better feeling, more responsive movement system.

Winter Park, Fl, Us

- Communicated with a new group of students every month, learned how to quickly adapt communication styles to explain advanced concepts to beginner designers.- Mentored students along the process of learning beginner to advanced scripting concepts.- Helped facilitate student's in gaining a greater understanding of the fundamental principles of design.- Frequently took on extra work to help ensure students properly understood course material.- Worked with students who wanted to go above and beyond and ensured they had a space to grow.

- Crafted weapons systems for a multiplayer FPS shooter.- Designed actor based ability system that allowed for incredibly flexible usage for other designers.- Optimized performance, increasing frame-rate by 20fps.- Programmed modular event systems, allowing for easy crafting of complicated gameplay setups.- Built enemy spawning system that allows for quick and rapid iteration of setups through simple value changes.- Managed replication and optimization of networked systems using UE4's built in networking tools.- Balanced and tuned gameplay systems, including, melee systems, player abilities, character controls, and enemy combat.- Optimized pipeline for User Interface creation in UE4 and Unity projects.- Used Unity's Profiler to hunt down and fix areas of weak performance, bringing the project from 150fps to upwards of 2Kfps, performance increases include using event driven systems, and heavy usage of coroutines for AI behavior and most time based operations.- Tuned gameplay systems to encourage the player to keep mobile in combat.

- Responsible for creating rapid prototypes designed to engage the users.- Created tutorial sequence that informed the user how to use the desktop experience.