Resume

Experience

Indie Dev

Divine Star LLC - Hastings, MI

2019 to Present

• Created an indie project called Divine Star Software.
• Created and released a game to Steam called Crystalline Bliss.
• Created several open source libraries such as Divine Voxel Engine.
• Worked with other companies consulting them on writing performant 3d code for the web.

XR Game Developer

Niantic - Contract - Remote

April 2023 to June 2023

• Contracted by Niantic to build an XR game using react three fiber for their 8th Wall Platform
• Built a custom entity component system for react three fiber and implemented multi-player.
• Worked with a team of artist and game designers to produce a final product.

Senior Software Engineer

Bitreel - Remote

April 2023 to June 2023

• Architected a high performance 3D React application.
• Improved the speed greatly, stopped crashes, and brought the memory usage way down.
• Built a custom in-memory multi-threaded mesh database.
• Engineered a multi-threaded indexDB library to handle caching and loading meshes.

Programming Consultant

Bitreel - Remote

November 2022 to April 2023

• Helped convert JavaScript codebase to a TypeScript codebase.
• Helped engineer a system to load in high fidelity meshes in from a thread pool to populate a digital retail space.
• Provided software structure planning and guidance.

Web Developer

Etools - Remote

Feburary 2022 to Feburary 2023

• Worked directly with their top clients to make websites and manage their data
• Built eCommerce sites for their clients.
• Developed custom solutions to resolve data issues and increase sales.

Web Programmer

University Marketing and Communications at Michigan Technological University - Houghton, MI

2017 to 2020

• Worked in a professional environment with graphic designers, writers, videographers, and web developers.
• Help them move from an old CMS to an XSLT/PHP based CMS called OU Campus. Developed a PHP script to export content to make the process easier.
• Built new and expand upon features for their CMS. Rebuilt their image cropping gadget and built utility gadgets for management.
• Worked to implement AA web accessibility standers compliance in each project and site.
• Constructed web pages and web apps that interacted with MySQL databases and or Google Sheets.
• Worked with groups and university departments to add features or improve their sites.

Media Specialist

University Marketing and Communications at Michigan Technological University - Houghton, MI

June 2017 to November 2018

• Worked with a videographer to make marketing material for Michigan Tech.
• Recorded and edited videos in the Adobe Suite.
• Used Adobe After effects and Illustrator to make basic animations and effects.
• Worked with a team of people to make a consistent image and message.
• Assisted in video archiving and storage management.

Education

Associate in Humanities

Minor in Computer Science

Michigan Technological University - Houghton, MI

2015 to 2020

• 3.6 Departmental GPA
• 3.5 Overall GPA
• Completed a minor In Computer Science.
• Took courses related to sound design, music, communication,and software development.
• Completed over 130 credits.