Gamification of resistance and strength training built in Unity Virtual Reality

Contracted on a variety of Unity gamedev, simulation, mobile, and VR projects for clients in the aerospace, greentech, medical, and education industries to optimize their asset pipelines taking advantage of recent Unity technologies:✔Universal Resource Pipeline (URP) to optimize assets and improve portability, coding styles, bundles✔Cloud content delivery, Unity Gaming Services (UGS) dashboard, A/B testing, ads, heatmap analytics

Founded a non-profit school to inspire future teens (esp. girls). Onboarded and mentored a diverse team of 8 to 27 developers, teachers, and volunteers using positive organizational leadership and key skill training.🏆Won Best Tech Camp for Kids from Yellow Scene's Best of the West✔Developed STEM roadmap, tools, videos for 7 coding classes in Unity, C#, WebGL, Java, Mobile, VR✔Pioneered world’s first VR Game Jam for 47 teens building 7 playable Unity game projects in 1 day✔Leveraged remote blended learning at 18 remote sites using Slack, Trello, G Suite, Git, Jenkins, JSON✔Tripled students served 4 years in a row to 1,750 through strategic partnerships with BVSD and YMCA✔Pivoted to consulting on Unity C#, gamification, VR, collaboration, virtual workspaces, blockchain

Engaged cross-functional remote teams of 8 developers, 4 artists, and 5 testers in 5 different countries to modernize catalog of 12 cross-platform desktop and mobile game services to Unity C# on iOS and Android.🏆Remotely collaborated with TGC on multiplayer design for Journey PS3 which won 100+ industry awards✔Delivered 9 refactored Unity apps 3 months early with adoption of TDD, automation, reduced iterations✔Increased app sales by 250% in just 1 year by leveraging big data using Unity and Google Analytics✔Produced high-quality prototype and video to raise $150,000 via Kickstarter for Alpha Colony project🏆Won Most Innovative Award at GDC. Negotiated a $314,000 deal with Mattel to acquire assets

Gave strategic direction in the integration of diverse enterprise applications to create a military simulation for the US Air Force, including gamification of training missions, AI, and integrated with actual press video.🏆Presented to USAF and landed a $3m deal and attained the Brandon Hall award for NSDM Joint Ops✔Championed diversity and grew team from 4 white males to team of 9 incl. 2 multi-racial & 3 women✔Coached integration of XML, Ajax, Java, JSON, .NET, Rails, jQuery into a secure, effective solution✔Leveraged SME feedback to simulate the White House situation room to teach bias & mission strategy✔Architected 17 vivid scenarios, blended UI, UX, AI, high-impact video into 38 delivered missions

Migrated Konica’s US-based R&D team to Agile process (CI, TDD, refactoring), developed embedded printer solutions, led quarterly evaluation of and career development plans for 7-9 decreasing turnover by 50%.🏆Invented Methodology for Memory Management on Print Devices; awarded US Patent in 2012✔Mentored GM on modern HR reporting and adopting technical excellence w/metrics & code reviews✔Collaborated with Microsoft and industry committee to produce OpenXML ISO 29500:2008 standard✔Rallied support for and authored simplifications to the proposed convoluted and complex standard

Led team of 4 developers, 3 artists and 2 testers on branded AAA Playstation console game for Activision.✔Exceeded goal of 30 FPS by optimizing 300+ models, 500+ textures, and 100,000 lines of core code✔Delighted Activision producer with more butterflies: ensuring $2m in future contracts for studio✔Ensured speed and playability of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, which sold over 1 million copies

> Founded software company building and selling casual games online● 5-12 direct reports using C#, Visual Basic, C++, Win32, DirectX, Web 2.0.● Developed 14 card and board games focusing on AI + usability for casual gamers.● Agile process including continuous integration, test-driven development, refactoring, reviews.● Championship Hearts won PocketPC Magazine’s Card Game of the Year in 2004 and Spades won in 2006.

Ported a huge UI class framework for electronic medical record (EMR) system using CORBA, Java, Oracle.🏆Won CompuWorld's Smithsonian Award for Innovation in Healthcare✔Engineered 5 medical imaging prototypes and 17 tools in Java and C++. Certified MCSD and Adv. Java✔Designed and refactored a large CORBA class framework using Design Patterns, UML, Rational Rose

> After graduating, I maximized exposure to many technologies through consulting● Performed usability testing, task analysis, and improved usability of GUI.● HomeFinder real estate won CU Design Expo Best of Show . Presented ACM SIGCHI 1996 .

> While a grad student, I worked at a portability toolkit company creating UI controls● Designed and developed XVT-PowerObjects , a set of portable UI custom controls.● Unit tested and kept compliance with UI standards on 30 different C++ platforms.

> While an undergrad, I designed and built UI prototypes for data visualization● Dr. Shneiderman and I invented dynamic queries for data visualization of data sets.● Created the Dynamic HomeFinder , written in C with custom GUI slider controls.● Two papers on dynamic queries published/presented at ACM SIGCHI ‘92 + ACM SIGIR ‘92 .