- Created 3D avatars for clients and for myself to use for live streaming. I modeled the avatar in Blender 3d, then added Physics and unique materials in Unity.- Developed a mobile game for the Android market in Unity called Hoppity. Created everything including 3D animated graphics, C# scripts, music, sound effects, and shaders.- Created models, shaders, and animations in Blender 3d and recorded some tutorial/showcase videos for YouTube.- Opened a store through sketchfab with models free to download or purchase.- Created an overlay for players of Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout to put over their OBS streams (usually for Twitch streaming).- Recorded a YouTube tutorial on how to install and use it. Built it with Angular, .NET, and a local Sqlite database.- Contributed code to a Unity 3D tool called Fungus, a tool for creating interactive story games. I was building a prototype using this tool and wanted to add some features and contribute to this very useful, beginner-friendly dev tool.- Created artwork for a Game Manual published by Bloomingnerd studios. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/191661/Super-Fun-TV-Hour

Unity App Development: UI, AWS and firebase web services, 3d avatar development, Character dressing system.

- Developed a mailing system for their Ordering system to share orders to other customers within their company and made a new user signup process.- Developed frontend features using Angular, Sass, and Typescript. Wrote unit tests for any new additions in Jasmine.- Developed backend Rest API using C# .NET Core and Visual Studio, and wrote unit tests around the services, then tested endpoints by using postman or Swagger.- Created and maintained database migrations with Entity Framework Core.- Worked as part of an Agile Scrum team, tracking work through Azure DevOps.- Reviewed pull requests and provided feedback.

- Collaborated with the Game Designers to create systems that were used throughout the game, such as a Reward System, CanvasManager, Network Manager, and Player Controller.- Created a UI in Unity that made network calls to a Learning Management System that allowed players to take tests in that LMS in-game.- Wrote flexible, dynamic code and prefabs that allowed the Game designers more creative freedom. - Wrote automated unit tests to ensure smaller parts of the game were reliable so we could confidently build on top of them. - Worked with existing tools like DoozyUI, TextMeshPro, Timeline, Shadergraph, RTVoice for Text-to-Speech, UMA for managing character wardrobe items, BestHttp for communicating with multiple APIs, and the JsonSerializer to save game objects externally or deserialize API data.- Used creative problem solving to get around stubborn bugs or limitations of Unity 3D.- Integrated Unity Analytics to track beta-tester’s progress through each of the learning activities to see where the activities fell short of entertaining our players.- Participated in an Agile Scrum Team. Primarily used Jira to track tasks, user stories, and bugs.- Managed a group of game developers to complete features to the best of their ability and to the Project Manager’s specifications.

- Contribute to the Avalon Media System open source project with 4,000 lines of code. I use Ruby and Ruby on Rails on the backend and CSS, Sass, Twitter-bootstrap, HTML5, jQuery, CoffeeScript to build a responsive and interactive front-end. - Build web application features based off of UX wireframes and working closely with the designer and stakeholders to make an appealing, intuitive user experience. - Maintain and update IU’s Avalon production servers, including Media Collections Online, which has been in production for two years. They run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and are served up by tomcat configured with an SSL Cert. - Remotely connect with ssh to the VMs hosted by IU’s consolidated hosting environment to run major release updates. - Migrated 30,000 tracks of music from Variations to Media Collections Online and worked with the Indiana University Music school to make sure the transition will meet their user’s needs. - Write technical documentation for installation and maintenance tasks on Avalon’s public wiki. - Collaborated with development partner Northwestern University through daily standup meetings, IRC, Slack and Github.

- Developed and debugged ColdFusion and Java components for SUNAPSIS, a web application that manages international student and scholar information. - Analyzed database performance and improved search times with indexes and more efficient queries. - Supported client universities who adopted SUNAPSIS, through Adobe Connect sessions or support calls and helped them build custom forms.