- Built a realistic multiplayer VR simulation to train people in disassembling a complex industrial machine. - Contributed to a tycoon game concept, optimizing terrain data sampling and implementing guest behavior.- Took over as backend lead on a fantasy football app, delivering an MVP on a tight deadline.

- Lead programmer and game designer on a remote team, first building a prototype for a city-builder, then a rogue-like card battler game with world travel and exploration elements.- Designed and coded core systems and features for both games.- Collaborated with the Art, Audio, Marketing, and Narrative directors on worldbuilding for a cute fantasy world to support the mechanical direction.- Worked closely with the Art Director to implement and tune visual elements, including writing shaders and implementing VFX.- Implemented all content and logic as data-driven entities for easy runtime modification, simpler rendering, and arbitrary save/resume. - Built custom tooling to support content authoring, testing, and organization.

- Sole programmer, artist, and designer on a prototype for a 3D tactical combat game in Unity, written in C#.- Concepted and implemented combat, VFX, and animations.- Features included an advanced action sequencer, a data-driven spell system for modular content authoring, ranged and melee combat,, advanced targeting filters and targeting shapes, displacement, board manipulation, persistent auras, and more!

- Core contributor on a SCRUM team responsible for maintaining, upgrading, and modernizing a legacy monolithic php/js codebase used for internal operations by 100s of employees, from engineers to housekeepers.- Performed daily mentorship, pair programming, and in-depth code review, often with folks on other teams. - Worked with Product, UX, and Design to determine technical requirements, parse and iterate on user feedback, and evolve our products. - Optimized high traffic and data-heavy areas throughout the codebase to keep up with rapid user growth.- Prototyped and shipped an updated navigation experience for 100s of employees and contractors. - Led and organized a large-scale effort to upgrade several systems to php7 compatibility across multiple teams.- Expanded and optimized localization systems and integrated them with the updated UI.- Participated in a 24 hour on-call rotation: leading incident responses, troubleshooting, and overhauling our monitoring tooling.

- Acted as technical lead on a remote team, spearheading several projects ranging from design/marketing focused wordpress sites to enterprise-scale web applications.- Consulted with clients on product development, budget, marketing planning, and timeline needs.- Lead the team in planning, implementing, and documenting projects and major features in a fast-paced, budget-conscious environment.- Mentored teammates through technical presentations, code review, pair programming, answering questions, and leading team discussions.- Defined role requirements, planned interview assessments, and performed interviews for potential engineering and management hires.- Contributed extensively to internal documentation, helping define and develop processes to establish a consistent and positive experience for our clients while making sure our team felt empowered to take smart risks, make mistakes, and continue to learn and grow.- Designed, configured, and deployed scalable cloud environments.

- Developed and maintained Wordpress and flat HTML websites for local businesses.- Provided on-site tech support for local businesses and individual clients.- Investigated and solved hardware, software, and networking problems.- Deployed and configured workstations and networks for local businesses.