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Washington, DC, US

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Lead engineer of team of 6 building multiplayer networked colocation physical combat game.
• Building multiuser mixed reality experience within collocated physical space using C# on Meta Quest 3.
• Integrating synchronous and asynchronous networking for events between headsets using Photon.
• Designing procedural generation algorithm for virtual room setup through manipulating 3D geospatial room data.
• Configuring hand gestures with virtual UI elements to enable interactions in virtual space.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Programming Teaching Assistant supporting the Building Virtual Worlds (BVW) class at Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center.
• Supervising 75 master’s students, holding office hours, and assisting students in AR/VR development using C# in Unity.
• Held workshops covering various topics: Game Engines, OpenXR, XR interactions, Debuggers, and Design Patterns.

Greenbelt, Maryland, United States

• Built an MQTT device communication protocol with C# and Mosquitto MQTT that supports ARM64 architecture.
• Initiated data transmission pipeline between Windows clients and Microsoft HoloLens for real-time simulations.
• Facilitated real-time multi-person networking by implementing data publishing and subscription with IoT server.
• Enabled serialization and deserialization by dynamically exchanging XML attributes in real-time among users.
• Wrote scripts for various features and improved performance on the Mixed Reality Toolkit using Unity’s AR/VR API.

• Performed automation testing for infotainment system through simulation of CAN signals using Python.
• Carried out manual testing with Agile Development Life Cycle methodology, improved sprint efficiency by 30%.
• Executed system, unit, regression, functional testing to enhance efficiency and reliability within the CI/CD pipeline.
• Accomplished automotive infotainment software verification, validation, and diagnostic services on virtual machine.
• Experienced in writing and modifying test cases, test plans, and executing test scripts using TestRail.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Courses: Fundamentals of Engineering I & IIAssisted in teaching and learning for over 60 students per session in learning the foundations of engineering. Built websites and programs in MATLAB to lead students in project management and development.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Courses: Computer-Assisted Problem Solving; Modeling and Problem Solving with Spreadsheets and DatabaseDirected and monitored weekly lab sessions for over 50 students per week. Provided teaching in areas of database creation and organization, data processing, and working with advanced queries.

Minnesota, United States

Reimplemented original Bootstrap webpage to more responsive web design using CSS.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Responsible for photography events including graduation photoshoots, wedding photoshoots, advertisement photoshoots, and family photoshoots.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Courses: Calculus 1/2/3, Engineering Mathematics, Precalculus, College Algebra, Business AlgebraProvided developmentally appropriate tutoring to over 40 students per week enrolled in math courses at OSU.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Researched and experimented with accelerometer and gyroscope sensors used as input method for mobile games

Master Of Science - Ms, Entertainment Technology

Joint program between the School of Computer Science (SCS) & School of Fine Arts. Bridging Computer Science with Art and Interactive.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science Engineering

Specialization: Software Engineering (SWS) & Computer Graphics and Game Design (CGG)

High School Diploma