Research Coordinator & Lead

June 2016 - Present

LEAD: Design and Development of 3D Virtual and Augmented Reality Environments for Research in Pain Medicine applications. Worked with Arduino Uno, photoplethysmography with the Easy Pulse Plugin, Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, OVRVision Oculus Rift augmented reality attachment, Emotiv EPOC+ 14-lead EEG headset, and the Unity game engine. Designed data acquisition and management systems for the Unity game engine, EEG data, and various other data types and creating custom graphical interfaces for management, analysis, and inspection of device and signal quality. RESEARCH COORDINATOR: Responsible for direction and management of research activities of two MDs, and two students, under direct supervision of CFO. Responsible for directing and assigning research tasks and identifying and applying for grant funding. Previously: Medical Virtual Reality Researcher (for summer 2016)

Medical Virtual Reality Researcher

June 2016 - Present

Design and Development of 3D Virtual and Augmented Reality Environments for Research in Pain Medicine applications. Worked with Arduino Uno, photoplethysmography with the Easy Pulse Plugin, Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, OVRVision Oculus Rift augmented reality attachment, Emotiv EPOC+ EEG headset, and the Unity 5 game engine.

Software Programmer

May 2008 - Present

I saved Global Response roughly $50,000 in costs by working on Salesforce setup and programming as well as learning HTML and Ruby on Rails. This experience also gave me some exposure to other business concepts such as balance sheets. I also wrote ruby scripts to parse complex data fields and correct certain aspects of hundreds of thousands of addresses by standardizing them and refactoring them. I also thereafter spent time post-validating said information and managed to clean, refactor, and immigrate four different databases of uniquely formatted records from TBS to Salesforce whilst subsequently correcting all invalid address information. I also wrote Apex Triggers for their Salesforce to set up a Round Robin with their incoming leads by sending them only to active operators, storing unallocatable leads in a queue to be dealt with later, and providing access to a manager to oversee said process and overwrite it where necessary. The trigger tries its best to ensure that no operator receives more leads than another where possible. I've also assisted the company on company-wide gamification projects encompassing large changes in underlying architecture being used everyday by hundreds of employees.

Medical Game Designer and Biomedical Engineer

January 2017 - Present

Designing games to teach medical students about Maternal physiology.

Gameplay Programmer / Sound Designer

May 2015 - August 2015

As a gameplay programmer on two existing projects, I programmed, created levels for, and created sound effects for several expansions on which the client provided positive feedback. After one such expansion serving as the lead developer on both projects. I also edited music tracks for use in these expansions. I was in charge of helping another worker get acclimated to both projects for a short time. For part of the time working on the two projects above I also assisted with the programming of another game. I also created and edited many sound effects, voice-overs, and stingers for as well as edited existing music for several new games as well as ones which were previously in production while I was working on and managing the code and sound for the two projects mentioned above. During certain times, I also assisted with general QA and bugfixing of several project builds for multiple mobile platforms (Android, iOS, and Kindle) and for MacOS. The games I worked on are the following: In the Disney Watch App: - Drop Zone: Descendants, Girl Meets World, and Liv and Maddie expansions - Photoshoot: Descendants, Girl Meets World, and Liv and Maddie expansions as well as achievements and props In the Disney Junior Watch App: - Goldie and Bear (not the current version, the older one pre-approval) And a few others

Sound Designer (SFX)

January 2014 - June 2014

I've been working on the Sound Design for sound effects for this game as of late. Chain Gang Chase is a game which RIT Interactive Games and Media Professor Joe Pietruch has been working on since June 2013 when the first prototype was built. CGC is a couch coop game where several players are chained together (up to 8) and have to navigate a maze as quickly as possible. There is also an online map editor and the was a kickstarter for it which successfully raised more than the amount needed to fulfill the goals of the kickstarter. There are a fair number of other people also working on this project. For more information, please visit the CGC About Page: http://www.chaingangchase.com/about . Check out the map editor here: http://www.chaingangchase.com/maps/. This project has since become a separate project from MAGIC Spell Studios and we are now working on this on our own free time.

Research Assistant

January 2014 - June 2014

C++ programming and researching functionality of ArcGIS software with regards to the CityEngine software and libraries. Responsibilities included determining ways CityEngine could benefit students in the IGM Dept. at RIT and identifying obscure resources and recognizing limitations of the working environment for the use of CityEngine. In particular, we focused on finding a way to integrate the CityEngine Procedural City Generation Technology into a Unity3D plugin for the purpose of making integration easier for students and possibly more easily programmable. Our team also generated a Gray box city from the Open Street Maps data regarding the city of Malmo.

Lyricist and bass guitarist

January 2010 - January 2012

Played bass guitar and wrote lyrics for music with a group of other students who were members of the MSD Anime Club. We played both japanese rock and pop music and also american rock music.