Academia

• B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Kansas School of Engineering. 

• A.A.S. in Game Development from Johnson County Community College

• President and events chair of the KU Game Developers Association

• Guest speaker for the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).

Augmented Reality Civil Engineering Structural Kit (2019-Present)

As a result of my augmented reality independent study (listed below), I was hired by the University of Kansas School of Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, to create an educational augmented reality application to be used in classrooms. The goal of this project was to superimpose 3D objects onto the Mola Structural Kit that will be distributed to students, in order to show the real-time results of forces being applied to this structure. Since this project is ongoing, the below image and videos only represent a work-in-progress. The department of civil engineering is authoring an academic publication on this application, which I am a co-author of.

Augmented Reality Independent Study (2019)

For my final senior elective, I was successful in petitioning for a custom augmented reality class, which I wrote the syllabus for. This independent study required me to read three separate textbooks:

• Practical Augmented Reality, 1st ed., Steve Aukstakalnis, Pearson Education Inc., 2017

• Augmented Reality: Principles and Practice, 1st ed., Dieter Schmalstieg and Tobias Höllerer, Pearson Education Inc., 2016

• Augmented Reality: Law, Privacy, and Ethics, 1st ed., Brian D. Wassom, Elsevier Inc., 2015 

In addition, I completed a concentration of six augmented and virtual reality projects meant to demonstrate different aspects of the "mixed reality continuum".

• Virtual Reality Racquetball - Unity Engine, Google Cardboard

• Image-Recognition Augmented Business Card - Unity Engine, Vuforia

• GPS-Based Geocaching Treasure Hunt - Unity Engine, Mapbox, Google Firebase

• Markerless Plane Detection - Unity Engine, Wikitude

• Interchange Between Environmental Registration & Image Detection - Unity Engine, Vuforia

Graphics Programming (2019)

In my final year of my B.Sc. in Computer Science, I completed a series of OpenGL graphics programming projects for an elective course. This course included many complex shader programming techniques, and resulted in a final project that demonstrated all learned concepts. 

Capstone Project (2015) - Unreal Engine 4

A.A.S. Graduation project, in development for a total of 11 months. Worked with a team of four designers, two programmers, four animators, and a local music producer. In developing this game, we utilized agile game development and scrum - working together for nearly a year. We successfully completed the game for graduation as our final project.

This game is a grid-based tactical strategy game in an absurd, whimsical fantasy setting. It features dynamic battles, as well as resource management, party management, and an overworld setting which you must protect.