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Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Building data driven, iterative social features that help players express themselves, find their best friends, and create lasting memories.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Lifecycle was formally know as Product Growth.

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Program and design core gameplay features such as the tutorial, the share camera, Charades Team Lightning mode, etc.• Program and maintain most of the 3D Watch screens (Rec Room's UI system)• Implement new systems in their entirety, from client to server to database models, such as the Consumables system, Social Dorm room, player to player economy, etc.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

53-831: BUILDING VIRTUAL WORLDS (BVW)BVW was pioneered by Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture), and is the class which the Entertainment Technology Center is founded upon.• Managed 79 graduate students with a Co-Head TA and a team of 11 other TAs for the interdisciplinary Building Virtual Worlds (BVW) class taught by industry leader Jesse Schell and David Culyba• Set up, maintained and kept track of all platforms, such as Oculus Rift and HoloLens, and organized teaching workshops for the students• Provided feedback to students to support their learning, in terms of technical, design and especially interpersonal advice• Assigned roles to each student, created balanced teams, and strictly enforced deadlines and attendance / punctuality

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

• Worked as the only game developer on an endless runner mobile game in Unity3D, with the 2D+3D Infinite Runner Engine package• Brainstormed gameplay and monetization features, and scoped out the development + future expansions plan for the game• Programmed and designed the game to procedurally generate terrain which is random, yet passable and fun to play• Set up a data management system for local data storage and integrated it with a company provided API for cloud storage

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

53-471/671: GAME DESIGN, PROTOTYPING AND PRODUCTION• Assisted the teacher with administrative work for a class of 30 undergraduate and graduate students • Developed materials and conducted Unity3D workshops for both programmers and non-programmers, most of whom have no prior knowledge of Unity3D• Participated in project critiques, providing effective and timely feedback to students to support their learning

New York, Ny, Us

Metalworks by Maxus is the creative technology arm of Maxus.• Researched and developed a virtual reality app (360 video player) with hand gesture interaction for Google Cardboard using the Unity game engine and the alpha release of the Leap Motion Controller SDK for Android• Ported the VR app to Oculus Rift and implemented spectator viewing over the network• Developed a centralised resource database for the company using the Meteor framework. Features include tagging system, instant search, user rules/access system, etc.

This group was originally created for the modules CS3343: Digital Media Production and CS4340: Digital Special Effects in the NUS School of Computing. We continued the group and did ad-hoc video productions after those classes concluded.AD-HOC VIDEO PRODUCTIONS (unrelated to academics)• Produced the promotional video “The SoC Experience” for the NUS School of Computing, which the school used as part of their official publicity materials• Produced a promotional video for the Student Leadership Programme in the NUS School of Computing• Produced the 2015 Commencement Video for the NUS School of ComputingMODULE AWARDS• CS3343: Oscar (best video in the cohort)• CS4340: 1st prize (based on industry judges' decision)• CS4340: People's Choice Award (based on public voting at the 4th SoC Term Project Showcase)

Singapore, Sg

• Designed part of the UI and UX for 3 different government applications including myResponder (https://www.scdf.gov.sg/home/community-volunteers/mobile-applications) and OneService (https://www.smartnation.sg/what-is-smart-nation/initiatives/Urban-Living/oneservice-app)• Worked closely with other government agencies and stakeholders to carry out the full design cycle for 1 of the applications

Master Of Entertainment Technology, Entertainment Technology

Bachelor Of Computing (Honours), Communications And Media