RESUME

EDUCATION

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, September 2018
GPA: 3.9 (4.0 scale)

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Earned Master of Fine Arts in Cinema,Television and Interactive Production, May 2002
GPA: 3.9 (4.0 scale); Harold Lloyd Scholarship, New Media Literary Project TA-Ship

University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
Earned Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater, May 1996
GPA: 5.0 (5.0 scale); Tuition Waivers, Highest Honors, Bernard Gold Award, Faculty Player Award, Bronze Tablet

WORK EXPERIENCE

RPG Research, Spokane, WA (Remote)
Fall 2019- present
Software Engineer

Volunteer work remotely with team of developers to build electronic RPGs in three phases for recreational therapy use.

Frontier Science Foundation, Amherst, NY
December 2019- August 2022
Software Engineer II

Full stack engineer in lab division, developed command line and web-based applications for use by medical researchers. Worked extensively in Java with Spring, SQL (Actian Ingres), Coldfusion, Tableau, HTML, CSS and JQuery. Wrote new and updated existing functional specifications and technical specification documents as well as test cases and other documents in the software development life cycle.

SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY
Department of Visual Art and New Media and Communications Department
Fall 2008- Spring 2013
Adjunct Professor

Created six college courses from broad outlines and instructed students in a variety of subjects, including Adobe Flash and ActionScript 3, technology use, script writing, film history and criticism. Taught lecture sections as large as 40 students and art classes with individual instruction. Received consistently excellent evaluations from both department chairs and students.

Crocs Inc , Niwot,CO
March 2006- August 2008
Sales Process Specialist and IT Business Analyst

Received six promotions in two years, with an emphasis on working to improve the sales-through-billing processes globally. Trained and managed sales staffs in America and the Netherlands on use of various aspects of ERP, diagnosed numerous problems with systems both in setup and use, proposed and implemented improvements to processes, supported business across departments in Europe and Asia, and identified and resolved numerous issues impeding the business.

RELEVANT SKILLS

• A writer with strong composition and editorial skills.
• Computer Science:
  • Programming Languages:
    • Used professionally: Java, SQL (Actian Ingres), Coldfusion, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS, Bootstraps
    • Used substantially in course work: C++, ActionScript 3.0, C
  • Tools:
    • Tableau
    • Eclipse with Subversion
    • SQuiRrel
    • Experience with Godot, Unity and Construct 2 game engines
    • Github experience
• Substantial experience with Microsoft Office.
• Experienced instructor of various subjects across numerous fields (including variable business processes, software use and college courses in three subjects) with excellent communication skills.

PROJECTS

• Adapted Perl phylogenetic analysis application to Java, calling open source PHYLIP applications and utilizing the results to update files and databases.
• Built PHACS repository website with Bootstraps and Java backend, incorporating Tableau dashboards.
• Worked to create interactive e-reader for Unity in C#: built for a text-based game (in development), the engine uses a custom markup language to allow branching dialogue with character impact to be written on marked text documents and imported directly into Unity to provide content for the interface.
• C++ Programming: built text-based game Vantage for course project, earning perfect score and winning extra credit as the best project graded and best proposal.
• Web Design: created tutorial for Goodreads API as a class project, utilizing form data to communicate with the API and return and display catalog data.