Game Designer / Developer
XR Specialist
Full Stack Engineer
Transdisciplinary Researcher
Game Designer / Developer
XR Specialist
Full Stack Engineer
Transdisciplinary Researcher
I seek to bridge the gap between man and machine through experimental methods.
I'm particularly interested in the realms of game design, extended reality, graphics, and human-computer interaction. I enjoy the interplay between hardware, software, and the user's individualized experience between them. The ideal workflow in a project for me has me jumping in-between various roles and picking up new skills in the process.
Handling game development, from design (Concepts, Mechanics, UI/UX, World), to development (Systems, Characters, Replication engineering).
Full stack development for apps, specializing in Games, XR, Web, and Hardware.
Consulting for overall design of a product, user experience, and developer knowledge management.
Development of XR products (VR, AR, and MR), for all platforms, including custom hardware.
Manage Information Technology resources for the company to enable and facilitate business development.
As a Senior Game Programmer, I help lead the programming team as well as encourage cross-departmental communication and knowledge sharing.
Responsibilities include:
As a Generalist Engineer, I worked between multiple roles, from gameplay, to UI, and even networking. From prototyping to final product, I implemented new features as well as updated and consolidated existing ones.
Responsibilities include:
Prototyped and finalized active gameplay experiences in ARTscapes.
Used Unity's Photon framework for multiplayer interaction in ARTscapes.
Created diegetic UI to be displayed in AR for both ARTscapes and Eventscapes (featured in Versapay's expo for ARTscapes).
Parsed JSONs from Metals-API to grab current market info on precious metals for Drop.
Worked full stack and performed Firebase search queries for Eventscapes.
As a Freelancer, I jump from hardware to software-related tasks for clients. From issues as simple as PC repairs to more long term projects such as consulting on design frameworks necessary for games or other projects, as well as multiple programming or application review sessions.
Responsibilities include:
Led international computer maintenance and design consultant business with hundreds of clients.
Designed and built custom computer infrastructure for customers.
Consulting clients about game design pipeline using Unity and Unreal for cross-platform development in C#, C++, Java, or Python.
As an XR Engineer, I was responsible for the engineering side of the holographic display project. The project was created as a proof-of-concept for holographic displays and interactions for the Fluid Interfaces Lab and NeuraFutures, directed by Dr. Nataliya Kosmyna.
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Responsibilities include:
Created an interactive, holographic experience with Cortana using a Looking Glass display and Ultra Leap controller, as well as a brain-controller interface.
Shown as an exhibit at the MIT Museum and shown off to one of the co-creators of the Halo TV series.
As an XR Engineer, I was responsible for creating the web AR version of inCitu's app, scanning locations on-site to be created as meshes for users to scan, and collaborating with Niantic to use their VPS frameworks and notify them of any bugs encountered. I was able to create a more compact version of their current iOS application.
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Responsibilities include:
Created web AR experiences to display buildings being constructed, both on-site locations and off-site using 8th Wall.
Worked with Niantic’s beta VPS spatial anchoring framework, scanning wayspot locations as well as reporting any bugs to the development team.
I was selected to join GSU's Immersive Media Computing REU, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, for 8 weeks of undergraduate research. There, I worked with Dr. Ying Zhu to create a proof-of-concept for injury-aware game design, creating a game, tool, and user studies. The paper was published for the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) ArtsIT 2021 conference, sponsored by the EU and Springer.
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Responsibilities include:
Rapidly prototyped keylogger and item count logger, pushing data to Google Sheets at runtime.
Created simple game to showcase temporal-spatial tool.
Crafted user studies to gauge effectiveness of the tool to players and designers.
Authored a paper and created a poster conveying the results at the end of the program.
I started out as an assistant in Marist College's Programming Lab, helping both undergraduate and graduate students with various problems in the CS classes, as well as being the sole game developer tutor there. This eventually grew into my position working in Marist's pre-college CS program with the local Newburgh enlarged city school district (NESCD). There, I was the sole CS teaching assistant, tutoring high school sophomores and giving lectures to other levels in the program.
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Responsibilities include:
Tutoring students in concepts and principles of CS.
Reviewing students' code to make sure it is functional.
Worked with Python, Java, C++, SQL, JavaScript, Arduino, and data structures. (Marist)
Teaching concepts not covered in the course (GUIs, ethics, game development, etc.). (NESCD)
Assigning projects for groups to work on. (NESCD)
I've been invited to be a speaker at various conferences, with talks primarily focused on research on accessibility and game design, as well as general DIY culture.
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