B2B and B2C Product Management for VR, Console, and PC-- Customer demo experience for Meta Quest, big box retailers and conferences (2020-Ongoing) > Directed requirements gathering, budgeting, resourcing, specification writing, project management, delivery, and ongoing support across 3 headset releases and 1 store opening > Client: Meta | Team Size: 5-8 | Platforms: Meta Quest 2, Pro, 3-- Please, Don’t Touch Anything: House Broken (Released Dec, 2023) > Directed budgeting, resourcing, project management, delivery, and marketing > Client: Internal | Team Size: 10-15 | Platforms: Meta Quest 2, Pro, 3-- Multiple games during comps, ideation, and prototyping phases (2022-Current) > Assisted with competitive analysis, planning, resourcing, and project management > Client: Internal | Team Size: 5-10 | Platforms: Console, PC-- Single and Multi-user VR training experience for Meta's Datacenter Electrical Engineers (2020-2023) > Directed product vision, design, development, and delivery of 40+ unique training modules > Client: Meta | Team Size: 10-15 | Platform: Quest 2, Pro-- Mini-game development for Horizon Worlds (Released 2022) > Assisted with design, resourcing, project management, and stakeholder relations for 4 mini-games > Client: Meta | Team Size: 6-10 | Platform: Quest 2-- Multiple completed NDA client projects (2020-current) > Directed requirements gathering, resourcing, specification writing, project management, and delivery

CEO, Co-Founder, and Studios Head of CoLearn VR. We worked to create the world's only grade-school-focused multiplayer learning platform in VR, including cooperative games, virtual field trips, labs, and simulations enjoyed by the entire class in a shared virtual space.- Business management, hiring, customer and partner relations, fund raising, design, and development- Lead developer for our groundbreaking social VR learning platform, CoLearn VR- Develop timelines, recruit pilot schools, and work with partners and advisors to build CoLearn VR in line with what works best for teachers, administrators, and students

Game design and development, as well as business development, networking, and finances.- Use trends in education and technology to create cutting edge educational and training games and experiences- Architect and program VR and traditional games in the Unity engine- Manage company finances- Plan for and attend game conferences in order to demo products, receive feedback, and network- Look for and apply for grants at the local, state, and national scale which are looking for innovational ways to train, teach, or educate- Review and study current games, both traditional and educational, in order to utilize the newest trends and techniques in games- Create small traditional games to stay on top of trends and techniques that may not yet be ready for broader use

Primary developer for MULE Games' current learning game Mission Hydro Sci. Mission Hydro Sci is a 3D first person exploration game which focuses on teaching middle school students about the water lifecycle through a sci fi setting on a distant planet. http://mhs.missouri.edu/Unity development responsibilities include:- System architecture/implementation- Tool architecture/implementation- Asset integration- Level and Quest designLead responsibilities include:- New developer training (undergraduates and graduates)- Time-lining and scheduling- Requirements gathering, documentation, and planning- Inter-team coordination across art, design, curriculum, usability, and analytics- QA Lead- Build management

Growing the client base, long term planning, software architecture, software development, project management, front-end design and implementation.Primary development areas:- Database design and administration- Backend server creation in Python/Flask or PHP/Deepthought- Frontend design and implementation in AngularJS- Responsive web-friendly design- User-centered design

PHD Candidate for Biomedical Informatics in the MU Informatics Institute. Working on Big Data modeling solutions for genetics, genome structures, and electronic health records classification and prediction.

Graduate Researcher for Dr. Yi Shang of the Computer Science Dept.

SP 2014 - Graduate TA helping develop a course in Big Data Analytics focusing on Hadoop to teach MapReduce uses and techniques.FA 2013 - Graduate TA for CS 4830 - Science and Engineering of the WWW.FA 2013 - Graduate TA for CS 4001 - Big Data.SP 2013 - Graduate TA for CS 3330 - Object Oriented Programming using Java.

Master's Student concentrating on Artificial Intelligence and large scale, high efficiency systems.Thesis: An Evolutionary Method for Training Autoencoders for Deep Learning Networks

Working in the Operating Systems Group, specifically Engineering Partner Infra & eXperience, working on the hardware certification kit.

Worked on refactoring/redesigning the backend workflow of the Developer Services Portal, Windows Devices and Networking.

Initial Build Management Research and DevelopmentTesting Tools Creation/Implementation for higher efficiency testingDesigned and Implemented a new Crash Log Parsing/Tracking system

Create and maintain tools internal to the team for the art, design and QA teams.Maintain internal web tools.Parse and datamine client and server logs for performance and game balance reasons.Help with client side perforce setup and maintenance.Help with database query work for art and design.

Work with a Scrum team comprised of designers and artists in order to create multiplayer dungeons from concept to publish for an action-based console MMO (DC Universe Online)

Build version editor/client/server testing and ad-hoc game testing.

Help with searches, appointments, inquiries, scheduling, and website development.

Did black box, compliance, and other testing for Darksiders.

Technical support on-site while in town, phone support while in college.