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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Augmented MIT’s SEXTANT path-planning tool to accommodate real-time, mid-traverse path recalculation. Created Pathfinder – a tablet-based, video see-through augmented reality (VST AR) application built with the Unity game engine. In Pathfinder, implemented and evaluated three different path-following visualizations and two different obstacle specification.

Pasadena, California, United States

Using commercial photogrammetry software, helped create a workflow for combining drone imagery and LIDAR scans to create a high quality, textured mesh. Optimized an algorithm related to mesh slicing and the creation of multiple levels-of-detail (LOD). Created debug tool in Unity for determining if the appropriate level-of-detail mesh is displayed.

San Francisco, California, United States

Worked on the game 'War Commander: Rogue Assault'. Helped design and implement a generic event scheduling and activation system. Re-used old and created entirely new UI elements and widgets to support gameplay features.

San Francisco, California, United States

Initially used Xamarin, then later Xcode and Swift, to help create a system for downloading and intelligently displaying a user’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR). Worked extensively on the user authentication and registration system. Implemented system for locally caching health data using a Realm database.

San Francisco, CA

Worked on 'Tetris Ultimate' (PS4, Xbox One), Dungeon Defenders 2 (PS4, Xbox One), an unannounced puzzle-based mobile game, and an unannounced virtual reality application. On Tetris, I implemented the user management (including sign-in/sign-out) and controller management systems; created powerups, line attacks, and the Battle and Battle Ultimate game modes.

San Rafael, California, United States

Worked on 'Batman: The Telltale Series'. Helped the Telltale core engineering team backport PS4 and Xbox One projects to PS3 and X360. Researched and implemented several collision detection algorithms to help optimize Telltale’s lighting and shadow-casting systems.

San Leandro, California, United States

Worked on the card-based mobile game 'Fort Stars'. Implemented a system for drawing, holding, and playing Action Cards. Using Unity’s Mecanim and particle systems, created animations for cards and HUD elements.

San Francisco, CA

At LucasArts, I worked on The Force Unleased 2 as the primary UI engineer. After completing that project, I moved on to an unnanounced Unreal Engine 3 project, where I worked on various general gameplay tasks in addition to working as the primary UI engineer.

I graduated in May 2009 with a bachelors in Computer Science from the College of Engineering and a minor in Mathematics.

As an intern of the LucasArts JEDI Academy program, I underwent training writing scripts in Lua and Python and using those scripts in LucasArts's proprietary game engine. Additionally, I, along with two other interns, created a simple game to prototype several new gameplay ideas.

Master Of Science - Ms, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical/Space Engineering, 5.0

Activities and Societies: Graduate Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

Bs, Computer Science, 4.0

Activities and Societies: James Scholar, Bronze Tablet, Special Interest Group: Graphics