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- Maintained, updated, and built features for PIV’s signature app Viva Slots Vegas: a mobile social game 100k DAU across iOS, Android, Amazon, and Facebook. - Built out a Snowplow analytics pipeline on an Amazon Web Services VPC. Deployment was handled by a combinations of ansible scripts and cloud-formations run as jenkins jobs.

My final senior semester at Cal I co-facilitated a class on game design and development. I give lectures on unity specific topics (Mechanim animation, Unity scripting) as well as general game design principles (modulating interest curve, differences in kind and scale, core game loops). The goal of the class was to have students develop their own games.

-Rapidly prototyped 6 VR games in Unity, with different combinations of headsets (Oculus, Google Cardboard) and peripherals (MYO armbands, Kinect 2, Vuforia enabled AR), resulting in 6 month contract with Mattel.-Created “Underwater Adventure” for Mattel’s View Master, using C# and Unity to generate procedural pirate ship, and integrate Vuforia Unity AR plugin, while maintaining polycount under 50,000 and frame rate at 60fps.-Designed “underwater” sound effects system using 40+ assets from Freesounds.org and Audacity for editing.-Built backend system in Dime Time’s “VR Playbook” using editor scripts in C# to import data from 200+ play formations from professional football team playbooks into Unity inspector saving at least 30 developer days.-Crafted frontend UI and wrote play selection tools in C# and Unity allowing for filtering based on 14 tags such as reciever route and guard formation making play selection 100X faster.

-Built “Ecopoiesis,” a game where players grows plants with their brain; Entry in 2014 NeuroGaming Hackathon.-Designed algorithm for aggregating Emotiv EEG data from 16 electrodes in C# to create concentration metric.-Took concentration metric and used it to parameterize procedural plants in conjunction with 12 growth variables defined by animation curves in the Unity inspector, allowing one to "grow plants with your brain.”

-Created “Song Bird,” a musical collaboration game where players fly across procedurally hexagonal cityscape in VR chasing songs, built with Unity and C#, showcased at 2014 Maker Faire in San Mateo.-Designed generation algorithm for hexagonal cityscape using Unity and C#, implementing control schema using Leap Motion for subtle movement through palm orientation and finger gestures.-Populated cityscape with song objects with parabolic movement for engaging spacial-audio experience.