Experience

• Columbia College Chicago

  Adjunct Faculty - Game Development

  Adjunct professor of game design and game scripting classes using iterative methodologies.

• The Field Museum of Natural History

  Game Designer

  Shipped TreeBit, an educational game designed to be played on Android mobile devices. My role extended to designing and programming the game systems with another game developer. The game integrates play to teach about the phylogenic tree of life and bio-diversity.

• InContext Solutions

  Technical Artist

  Developer for an interactive 3D simulations platform powered by Unity. My responsibilities consisted of coordinating the technical development within the Unity platform for shippable client deliveries.

• InContext Solutions

  Lead Technical Artist

  I lead a collaborative Technical Art team that supported a team of 3D artists through tools development. I oversaw the asset pipeline: Maya tools via Python, editor extensions within the Unity platform (C#) and the constant improvement in the technology behind the 3D visuals of our platform.

• InContext Solutions

  Unity Developer

  My responsibilities consisted of the design and technical implementation within the Unity game engine primarily for client delivery.
  
  I also started the process of formulating a technical approach to supporting the 3D artists with asset creation as well as optimizing our interactive environments to run on a wide range of computers over the web and on mobile devices. MEL/Python scripts and C# were primarily used for development.

• Ready At Dawn Studios

  Tools Programmer

  Primary responsibilities include authoring tools in Python, asset integration pipeline tooling via Jenkins and continuous artist workflow improvements.
  
  Major contributor to:
  • URI framework allowing for runtime/build errors that link to associated internal tools.
  • Maya toolset for authoring LOD assets (plug and play with RAD engine LOD functionality)
  • Workflow for texture bake down of High/Source model to all Low/LOD tiers integrated with Substance Automation Toolkit
  • Fully automated system for thumbnail capture of buildable/placeable assets for preview within internal asset database
  
  Credited as a Tools Programmer:
  Lone Echo (2017)
  Lone Echo [Echo Arena] (2017)
  Deformers (2017)

• MathZee

  Contract Game Designer

  Brought game design fundamentals and level design theory to MathZee Games. I specifically focused on the levels in Math Shapes, a game that taught 1st Grade Math and Geometry.