Michael Fox Email & Phone Number

Reston, Virginia

Annapolis, Md

• Developing various native iOS and native Android applications using Xcode, Eclipse, and Android Studio.• Gained experience in various roles such as Project Lead and Development Lead on several projects• iOS experience includes: Project setup and management, UI, Networking, Integrating social networks, Remote and local notifications, playing various media formats, image processing and filtering• Android experience includes: UI, Google Cloud Messaging, Handling/sending broadcast messages• Brief experience using Adobe Air to build an iOS and Android application from Flash• Groovy Grails experience: creating APIs for a multipler iOS social game, xmmp chat intergration, using hibernation to create and manage a sql database, creating .gsp webpages

Greater Atlanta Area

• Worked on games in Flash that used combinations of PHP, MySQL, Java and SmartfoxServer to handle client-side and server-side functionality• Implemented Server-side functionality such as secure login, sending user updates, and updates to the game using SmartFoxServer2x and Java• Updated MySQL database and game to store and use an encrypted login

Ballistic Fisthttp://gameproject.fullsail.com/gpgames/index.php/2012/05/ballistic-fist/Genre: 2D/3D Fighter• Developed and tested the collision system using Rect to Rect detection • Dynamically built 2D collision and hit boxes off of the character’s joints to use for detection during fights• Developed the reaction system which handled relaying to each fighter when hit, the appropriate reaction animation to run• Integrated the sound system using Wwise and integrated all sounds calls throughout the game• Wrote a plugin for Maya to export all our animations and static objects into a binary file• Implemented animation blending for going to and from different animations in order to get rid of popping

Super Snap Bros.Genre: 2D Fighter• Created a Tile Editor in C# which was used to create levels, which were then exported into XML and loaded into our game• Developed the Level Manager and integrated it with our collision system to handle all collision with the world.• Created a dynamic 2D camera by scaling and translating through the levels based on the characters positions• Developed the Menus and progression into the game by using a basic State System• Developed a Particle Editor and Particle manager, which were used to give visual feedback for effects

Bachelor Of Science, Game Development

Awards: Advanced Achiever Salutatorian

Bachelor Of Science, Civil Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Undesignated