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Atlanta, GA, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

- ForeVR Games is a fully-remote VR game studio that focuses on live service sports titles for the Meta Quest.- Worked primarily on the liveops team maintaining and improving the company’s 4 released games- Added new game modes to Cornhole and Pool, which improved the latter’s rating by 15%- Improved the shared submodules with enhanced permissions.

- Managed the day-to-day developer operations for Amebous Labs- Onboarded 1 new developer and 1 intern- Established package-based distributed repositories for use across Amebous/Futurus projects- Setup automated build and testing system- Managed the release of Loam onto Oculus App Labs and additional content/feature releases post-launch

- Worked at Amebous Labs, a separate brand formed under Futurus to make VR games- Led a team of at-max 4 developers on a gardening VR game for the Meta Quest from concept to release- Led the prototyping and ideation phase of the project, helped write the pitch- Architected the Inventory, Interaction, Plant, Critter and Day-Night system- Established new.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

- Futurus is a software development company that specializes in work-for-hire XR projects- Worked with another developer on the the JLG AR App for iOS and Android- Began with a prototyping phase in Unity, pushed to move to Xamarin Forms for production- Responsible for the design and and development of the app architecture and the UI- Helped build a VR.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

- Taught HTML, CSS, JS, PHP and Axure to new students in the DM and HCI program, most of whom had no prior coding experience- Fielded technical questions from students during their coded prototyping projects- Assisted the professor with the design of the technical requirements for the class

Atlanta, Georgia, US

- Hired by the director of my graduate program department to work on a grant-funded VR puppetry project- Used 3D scans of puppets from the Center for Puppetry Arts to make VR interactive versions of those puppets- Led 10+ research participants through an IRB study of the reported design

Atlanta, GA, US

- Moxie was a marketing agency under the Publicis Groupe with a large office in Atlanta.- Hired as an design/developer hybrid intern in the Future Experiences Lab at Moxie, a marketing company.- Had a major role in the design on a NAO/IBM Watson experiential prototype. Established a writing process and built technical prototypes.- Assisted on the.

- Disney Publishing at the time had a small department that specialized in mobile games for kids under 13- Worked as a game designer on multiple projects at once, most of which were pitched, designed and approved by stakeholders at Disney and built by external development studios - Played a large role in the design of a Finding Dory and Frozen kids mobile.

- Hired out of undergraduate as an intern under the only game designer in the department. Between us we bounced assisted multiple projects with pitches, design feedback, research and documentation.- Primarily shadowed my lead in meetings and took on documentation or research tasks.- Worked with another technical intern to build prototypes of potential.

Campbell, CA, US

- Accepted a role as the director of a camp location prior to accepting my Disney internship, which also was slated to end before the director role started. When I was extended at Disney, I still went back to complete this director role before returning to Los Angeles.- Managed the day to day operations of the iD Tech Gaming and Programming Academy in the.

Campbell, CA, US

- During the summer for 3 years of my undergraduate, I worked at iD Tech Camps as an instructor. - I managed a group of up to 8 teenage or child students in a summer camp classroom setting- Course I taught included UDK Game Development, Unity Game Development, Adventures in Java Programming, RPG Game Design, Half-Life 2 Level Design and Level Design in.

Master’S Degree, Digital Media

Bachelor'S Degree, Game And Interactive Media Design