Responsibilities

• Cross-train in different aspects of game development across Central Tech and other Activision studios
• Participate in code reviews

Notable Achievements

• Wrote multi-threaded data munger in Rust using Tokio that captures events from AWS SNS and performs batched inserts into SQL database
• Rewrote small tools site from jQuery into React.js
• Wrote JSON logger for use in Rust
• Set ground work for other rotational engineers to continue: React tools site, Rust data munger
• Assisted new developers to get started working in Rust
• Extended existing React app to support additional game titles

Technologies Used

Rust-lang, React.js, Python, Git, Perforce

Summary

Write an app for iPhone that plays music with a time-delayed crossfeed. Link to app

Notable Accomplishments

• Worked out how to perform crossfeed in real-time on the GPU using a Metal Compute shader however computation had to be moved to CPU as GPU access is unavailable when app is in background or device is locked

Technologies Used

Swift, SwiftUI, Metal Compute, GPGPU, Git

Summary

Return to Metro State University of Denver to finish incomplete bachelors degree in Computer Science

Notable Work

• Team lead in senior capstone courses
• Started work on Opus audio codec decoder in Rust
  • Had to pivot to other work because of excessive research spike into internal operation of codec algorithms
  • Repository on GitHub
• Performed maintenance on open source Java DNS server project, JDNSS

Technologies Used

Rust-lang, Java, Git

Responsibilities

• Assist in development as needs arise, generally
• Participate in code reviews

Notable Achievements

• Reduced build times of GitLab CI system by growing Linux+Docker build agent pool
• Increased accuracy and saved hours per day spent on processing headset orders
  • Added Label printing to C# order management tool using 3rd party REST API for label generation
• Wrote demographic collection tool to assist in user testing and machine learning modeling
• Envisioned and implemented intuitive VR alignment calibration visualization in C++ and internal rendering API

Technologies Used

C#, C++, REST API, QT, Git

Tools Used

Visual Studio, CMake, GitLab, Docker, Ubuntu Linux Server

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain internal-use web dashboard for Customer Support, Quality Assurance, and Development teams to use with DragonVale World
• Continue App submission responsibilities
• Participate in code reviews

Notable Achievements

• Anticipated QA, CS, Engineering needs and developed user-friendly tools for reliably editing JSON cloud game data
• Collaborated with testers and developers to improve existing tools in addition to developing one-click tools to speed up user testing and development cycle
• Saved hours of testing by reducing data errors in game data by automating translation of tabular game data into JSON using Python

Technologies Used

AngularJS, Javascript, CSS, HTML, Python, Git

Responsibilities

• Build internal-use mobile site for over-the-air app installation
• Perform final checks and submissions to app stores: Apple, Google, Amazon
• Provide technical assistance to QA team
• Train QA Analysts on various technologies pertaining to tools and technologies ex:
  • Mobile SoC architecture
  • Recording performance metrics using Xcode
• Assist Customer Support by performing repairs on player game states.
• Participate in code reviews

Notable Achievements

• Migrated OTA install mobile site from on-metal Apache server to CI-built Docker image
• Increased company productivity and testing reliability by migrating company to professional CI/CD from "home grown" shell scripts + PHP server
• Developed and delivered educational presentations to QA

Technologies Used

JQuery + jQuery Mobile, PHP, REST, AJAX, Git, Mercurial

Tools Used

Atlassian Bamboo, PyCharm, Docker, Apache, Perforce

Responsibilities

• Write and follow test plans

Notable Achievements

• Primary tester on Wits & Wagers mobile game.

Tools Used

Charles Proxy, Google Docs

Responsibilities

• Diagnose, service, and repair customer desktop and notebook computers running Windows and Mac OS X

Notable Achievements

• As the only Apple certified technician, performed all work on Apple products for several months
• Consistently met work quotas while maintaining a high quality of work and service

Tools Used

PC-Check, Apple Hardware Tool, Apple Service Diagnostic, rsync, xcopy, Carbon Copy Cloner, MemTest86, Clonezilla