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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

· Align code, art, and design departments across development from ideation to release.· Create performant systems that can be reused across projects· Aid design teams by rapidly prototyping their vision· Coordinate artists and UI/UX teams with pipelines for creating visual content· Communicate project status, dependencies, risks, and options to management · Proactively mentor peers, juniors, and management in my fields of expertise. · Manage materials & textures for artists based on their needs while ensuring that the materials remain performant. · Look development, handling the stylization of models and textures, as well as lighting functions. · Establishing new workflows, replacing outdated pipelines, providing simpler and more effective solutions, document processes.

Ottawa, Canada Area

Masterpiece Creator, Studio, and Render. Designed & implemented systems to import, create, manipulate, and export voxel or mesh 3D assets. System Design & Programming ‣ Texture Painting system ‣ Voxel Editing system ‣ Asset Serialization for Save/Load system ‣ UV Manipulation/Generation systemNetwork Programming ‣ Photon ‣ Firebase ‣ AWS InterfaceAI Programming ‣ State Machines ‣ Generative AiHLSL Shaders ‣ Geo/Vert/Frag pipeline ‣ Compute/Stencil/Tessellation/Surface shadersVFX Implementation ‣ Particle Systems ‣ Worldscale UI Panels ‣ Post Effects (Outlines, Depth/Stencil effects)Performance Optimization ‣ Profiler Analysis ‣ Bounds Culling ‣ Pipeline OptimizationR&D ‣ Reversible Rig-To-Mesh Conversion ‣ World Swimming Prototype ‣ In-App Materials Lab ‣ Python Prototyping ‣ Application SpaceWarp implementation Asset Pipeline ‣ 3D Asset Debugging ‣ Asset Importing, especially materialsBest Practices ‣ Test-Driven Development ‣ Wiki-style Documentation

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Working for Algonquin College, my skills were made available to novel software & development groups, such as Masterpiece Studio. In short order, I was brought on as a direct employee of Masterpiece Studio.

Operate in an office environment, operate in a call center, utilize workflow software, manage large-group tours, manage working knowledge of the campus, and effectively manipulate database information.

Ottawa, Ontario

Isolated Intelligence. Implemented systems for gameplay, special effects, and performance optimization. • Gameplay Programming ‣ Physics based Rappelling system ‣ Checkpoint system ‣ Save/load structures ‣ Gameplay triggers (Lights, VFX, level transitions) • HLSL Shaders ‣ Geo/Vert/Frag pipeline ‣ Compute/Stencil/Tessellation/Surface shaders ‣ Custom Vegetation Shader• VFX Implementation ‣ Particle systems ‣ Post effects (Outlines/Fog/Stencil effects)• Performance Optimization ‣ Debug Analysis ‣ LODs ‣ Culling• R&D ‣ Visualizations ‣ Playtest analysis ‣ Python prototyping• Asset Pipeline ‣ 3D Modeling ‣ Rig/Skin/Animation• Network Programming ‣ Photon ‣ UNet ‣ Custom RESTful HTTP API• AI Programming ‣ State machine ‣ Pathfinding

Intern under Quality Assurance, managing and reporting unusual interaction with unreleased software under an NDA.

Game Development, Game Develpoment

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: AV Crew