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Erie, Pa, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

During my time with iDTech I got the amazing opportunity to teach Unreal Engine on MIT's campus. I supervised over 180 students in lectures, on-campus activities, and assisted at the academy overnight program, where I helped assist students in learning game development through C++.I taught students the necessary skills they needed in order to develop games using Unreal Engines blueprint system. I then also taught a variety of adjacent tools in the game engine that students would utilize to complete their projects.Any students that requested it, I would provided personalized material I created to learn harder concepts not given to them in the expected curriculum goals. Examples being: Unreal Engines AI behavior tree system, low-level shader concepts for making custom material logic, linear algebra for certain game mechanics, and the C++ pipeline in Unreal Engine.It was great having new students every week, eager to learn what I was teaching them. Watching each student grow their skills in game development made the job very self-fulfilling and I am extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to work with the company.

Rochester, New York, United States

I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to have worked on this team. I developed stronger communication skills and also acquired the understanding of how to work with artists, audio engineers, and designers to develop a large-scale game project. I also gained priceless experience in how to work with a large pre-existing project. [Responsibilities]- Developed the architecture and implementations of AI systems in the project. - Worked with a team of 20+ members, implementing their work and demonstrating changes on a bi-weekly sprint basis. [Fall (Part-time)]- Developed 5 pages of documentation on confluence - These pages explain the current AI system now in the project, how to use it, and an onboarding guide for future developers.- Developed a prototype of a new UI system for the UI/UX team to test their assets.- Refactor behaviours of the main AI to integrate with system refactors towards the player code.[Summer]- Refactored the AI of the project from a Goal Oriented Action Planning system to a Behavior Tree system.- Detached 65 scripts from the project to clean up code.- Developed a UML graph using Lucidchart to visualize the project dependencies (~140 systems) for development team to use as documentation. - Resolved around 30 bugs for the project.

Rochester, New York, United States

Assist students in learning HTML, CSS, JS and help students use PixiJS library to design portfolio websites and web application projects.

Rochester, New York, United States

Assisted students in learning version control, C# data-structures, C# search algorithms, and utilizing C# mono-game pipeline to design a game for a semester-long group project.

Being a sales representative for Vector means so much more to me than just advertising CutCo products. It has taught me what it means to work with a team and find motivation to push yourself farther for your team. I graduated from the company's Leadership Academy which taught me the skills needed to interview/hire people and also construct/coordinate a team. I am grateful for all the real life skills this job has taught me and they will always be applicable to me for the rest of my life.

Bachelor'S Degree, Game And Interactive Media Design, Senior

Activities and Societies: IGM Student ambassador, Ballroom dancer.From making games on paper with my brother when I was a child.

Graduated

Activities and Societies: Cyber Security, Piano, Fine-Arts, Painting, Ceramics, Theatrics, CAD modeling, Competitive Mathematics.