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

• 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