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Objective

Find and create new ways to teach programming to non-computer science students.

Education

Summer 2004 to Spring 2009 ~ Columbia College Chicago ~ Chicago, Illinois
Received a Bachelor of Art ~ May 2009

  • Major: Game Design with a Concentration in Programming
  • Minor: Editing for Television
  • GPA: 3.412

Experience

October 2007 to Spring 2009 ~ Columbia College Chicago ~ Chicago, Illinois

Tutor

  • Assist teachers in the classroom to help students understand programming concepts
  • Assist students with programming assignments
  • Assist students with video assignments
  • Assist students with computer generated art

February 2007 to March 2009 ~ Babaroga ~ Chicago, Illinois

Internship

  • Fixed bugs reported by QA
  • Ported to reference builds
  • Games worked on:
    • Pictoionary
    • Godfather
    • MySims
    • Merv Griffen's Crosswords
    • Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2009
    • Spore

January 2004 to February 2007 ~ Truman Middle College ~ Chicago, Illinois

Assistant to the Academic Adviser

  • Assist in the registration process each quarter
  • Work with students to help determine academic plan
  • Assist personnel with computers in the Academic Advising office and other offices in the school

Interest

  • Solving computer problems
  • Video editing
  • Puppetry

Skills

Working Knowledge of the following:

Programming and Scripting Languages

  • C/C++
  • C#
  • Visual Basic.Net
  • Java
  • ActionScript 3.0
  • TorqueScript
  • Asp.net
  • php
  • XHTML
  • CSS
  • ECMAScript

Game Engines and Frameworks

  • Torque Game Engine Advance 1.7.1
  • XNA

APIs

  • open frameworks
  • processing
  • J2ME
  • Android API
  • Simple DirectMedia Layer
  • Brew 2.1.3
  • Brew 3.1.5

Programs

  • Visual Studio 2003.NET
  • Visual Studio 2005.NET
  • Visual Studio 2008.NET
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005
  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008
  • Eclipse
  • Netbeans
  • CodeBlocks
  • Torsion
  • FlashDevelop
  • Araxis Merge
  • WinMerge
  • Tortoise SVN
  • Tortoise CVS
  • Microsoft Office(Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Access, InfoPath, OneNote, Visio)
  • Adobe Creative Master Collection CS4(Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat Professional, Premier Pro, After Effects, Audition, Encore, Flash)
  • Final Cut Studio 2(Final Cut Pro 6, DVD Studio Pro 5, Soundtrack, Motion 3)
  • Avid
  • QuickBooks Pro
  • Filemaker Pro
  • Corel Painter IX
  • Jasic Paint Shop Pro.