Experience

Escalation Studios

• United States
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2011 - Present



SMU Guildhall

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Game Programmer

  • Jul 2010 - May 2011

  Synesthetic Dream (Unreal Development Kit) (12-member team)· Significant work with Unreal Kismet Script to create a complex custom post-process effects visualize the ‘beat’ in the music, simulating a vibrating sub woofer during a strong bass beat. This shader is the primary effect used throughout the game.· Designed and implemented a dynamic link library solution to insert FMOD to the June 2010 UDK engine.· Created custom UDK installer with NSIS script to solve the issue of standard UDK installer not including custom .DLL files into its auto installer Show less

• Software Development Masters Student

  • Aug 2009 - May 2011

• Game Programmer

  • Mar 2010 - May 2010

  Sword of Babylon (Unreal Development Kit) (9-member team)· Implemented the majority of the pawn and controller class in Unreal Script for the player controlled main character.· Designed and implemented main character dodge system, connected related root-based movement animations, and input modifications for dodge movement for the player character.· Designed and implemented a model-collision-based melee inside of UDK for the main character.· Imported character models from exported 3ds Max files to UDK and rendered them useable to the team, and developed the corresponding animation trees for the models in UDK. Show less

• Game Programmer

  • Oct 2009 - Dec 2009

  Project S.E.M. (Torque X 2D 3.0)(4-member team)· Modified Torque script base to fix various bugs.· Modified Torque script to implement an easily customizable double jumping and multi-shot firing feature to the main character.· Debugged of the exporting of Project S.E.M. to the Xbox 360.



Student Media Company

• Office Assistant

  • Aug 2005 - Dec 2008

  Various Tasks needed to support the advertising branch of The Daily Campus Newspaper for Southern Methodist University. Tasks included database management, equipment maintenance, computer upgrades, data entry, temporary ad representative, and distribution. Various Tasks needed to support the advertising branch of The Daily Campus Newspaper for Southern Methodist University. Tasks included database management, equipment maintenance, computer upgrades, data entry, temporary ad representative, and distribution.