About Me

I worked on some special projects at JHT. With JHT wanting to break out from mostly government focused projects, I worked on developing and animating several Flash-based mini-games that would be incorporated into a larger MMO-style game intended on educating children. One mini-game that was a favorite of mine to code was a side-scrolling shooter where the monsters were based on unhealthy food items and power-ups that boosted your characters weapons were healthy food items. I also helped conceptualize levels for a zombie game that was released on multiple platforms as well as developing a solution for controlling the game with the Xbox 360 controller before those APIs existed in Adobe AIR.

Skills: Web Development · Front-end Development · User Experience (UX) · Analytical Skills · Web Design · Digital Media · Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) · HTML · CSS · Windows · Microsoft Office · Microsoft Outlook · Microsoft Word · Microsoft Excel · Microsoft PowerPoint · Adobe Creative Suite · Adobe Photoshop · Adobe Acrobat · Adobe Animate

My first job outside of teaching that allowed me to go 100% in Flash development and animation. One of my first projects was coding and animating interactive slides to be used in a digital chemistry book. The next set of projects I worked on were coding and animating interactive video game guides that provided players with quickly accessible information that could be filtered by multiple data headers.

Skills: Web Development · Front-end Development · User Experience (UX) · Analytical Skills · Technical Support · Web Design · Digital Media · Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) · HTML · CSS · Windows · OS X · Microsoft Office · Adobe Creative Suite · Adobe Photoshop · Adobe Animate

After assisting in lectures and running labs for two years, it was time me to move on to actually running the course on my own. I took over teaching for the Flash Fundamentals course where students would use Adobe Flash Professional for the first time. The first topics covered the tools, how its animation differed from After Effects (which the Digital Arts & Design students would have had before this course), and how to use Flash's typography and vector system. The back half of the course dived into the introduction of ActionScript and covering basic programming concepts that would be expanded on in Flash ActionScript Techniques course that followed Flash Fundamentals. I maintained the course curriculum, lab material, and taught both the lecture and lab portions of the class.

Skills: User Experience (UX) · Analytical Skills · Technical Support · Web Design · Digital Media · Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) · HTML · CSS · OS X · Microsoft Office · Microsoft Outlook · Microsoft Word · Microsoft Excel · Microsoft PowerPoint · Adobe Creative Suite · Adobe Photoshop · Adobe Animate

The start of what would be a theme in my career for a while, I changed lab instructor positions to be able to assist with the Flash ActionScript Techniques course. Like my first Studio Instructor position, I had the privilege of assisting in the lectures that proceeded the labs for this course. Not too long after I joined the web team, we began the process of switching from ActionScript 2 to ActionScript 3, and I was tasked with coming up with many new tutorials for lab that would cover the AS3 language in addition to creating new "coding challenges" that would be given to the students at the beginning of every lab. The first student to complete the challenge correctly would earn bonus points on the final exam. Lab time also allowed for further teaching on my part to students on an individual basis whenever they had questions from the material covered in the proceeding lecture.

Skills: User Experience (UX) · Analytical Skills · Technical Support · Web Design · Digital Media · Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) · HTML · CSS · OS X · Microsoft Office · Microsoft Outlook · Microsoft Word · Microsoft Excel · Microsoft PowerPoint · Adobe Creative Suite · Adobe Photoshop · Adobe Animate

I loved the environment of my school so much that I wanted to stay and work there. My first position at Full Sail University was assisting in the lectures for the course Digital Storytelling and then co-running the labs that followed. I worked on new lab course material, maintained both the hardware and software of the lab computers, and occasionally taught full lectures. The labs for Digital Storytelling ran a bit differently from other courses in that lab was an extension of the lecture because it took place in the same room that was dedicated to the class and it allowed for both lecture and labs to have more hands-on experience for the students.

Skills: User Experience (UX) · Technical Support · Computer Networking · Digital Media · IT Operations · WordPress · Content Management Systems (CMS) · OS X · Microsoft Office · Microsoft Outlook · Microsoft Word · Microsoft Excel · Microsoft PowerPoint · Adobe Creative Suite · Adobe Photoshop · Adobe Animate