Experience
Architected a project-agnostic animation stylization tool in Maya/Python with modular PySide/Qt UIs, adopted across multiple EA studios and cutting manual keyframing by over 70%.
Created a high-throughput Unreal Engine C++ plugin that exports in-game character trajectory, pose, and velocity data for motion-matching animation databases.
Prototyped and integrated genAI/ML content tools using PyTorch and ONNX Runtime, including automated asset tagging and procedural pose generation, focused on being fast and non-intrusive for artists across EA projects.
Contributed to the pre-production of Project Rene, an upcoming Sims experience built in Unreal Engine 5.
Architected a multi-threaded async path-planning and navigation API in C++ for deterministic character routing and real-time obstacle avoidance, held under a 1.5ms frame budget.
Implemented core locomotion and animation runtime features, including motion matching, distance matching, custom IK, and animation event systems.
Worked on gameplay systems with GAS, along with dense crowd and shared multiplayer simulation.
Built in-editor tuning tools and visual debuggers for designers and technical animators.
Profiled runtime memory, compute, and frame budgets, eliminating hitches in character evaluation graphs and spatial query sweeps.
Worked closely with gameplay design, technical animation, QA, and the simulation and experience-design teams to prototype, iterate on, and polish features.
Led a team of QA testers at Lionbridge, an outsourced functional and localization testing firm for video games, working on live-service multiplayer titles.
Created well-documented bug reports through a combination of combinatorial, tree, regression, and ad hoc testing methodologies, triaged in JIRA.
Provided additional insight on existing bug reports using previous knowledge of engine and gameplay programming.
Interned as a team lead for the development of TurnUp, a web/mobile app
for a youth activism organization and networking. Developed cross-platform
API for application features in React Native and Express.js. Handled pull
requests, code reviews, and unit testing for the intern team’s feature
implementations.
Developed a distributed content production pipeline intended for Boise
State University’s “World Museum” project. Researched and implemented
image processing and compression algorithms to develop web-based digital asset management software. Designed and implemented
database schemas for the asset tagging system.
Assisted in courses on object-oriented design principles, test-driven
development, and elementary data structures. Held tutoring sessions to
assist students in designing and debugging Java programming projects.
Refactored auto-grading system for new online summer curriculum.