Drexel University

3141 Chestnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Summa Cum Laude, 2018

Game Programming and Development Concentration

5-Year Co-Op Program

4.0 GPA

Awards

• CS High-Performance Computing Award and honored on stage at graduation for cumulative
  4.0 GPA, Drexel University

• Third place team in Senior Design Final Four competition, Drexel University College of
  Computing and Informatics

• Dean's List, Drexel University

• PHEAA Ready to Succeed Scholarship, Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency

• Upsilon Pi Epsilon, International Honor Society for Computing and Information Disciplines

• AJ Drexel Scholarship, Drexel University

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Relevant Coursework

• Senior Design I, II, III - a capstone group project involving working with a customer to design and develop a full game.

• Game Development Workshop I, II - created a vertical slice of a game as part of a large team, then joined with another team to bring their game to full development.

• Serious Game Development - explored games used in non-entertainment contexts, and created two educational games of our own.

• Experimental Game Development - a series of topic-inspired game jams resulting in a new game every two weeks.

• Computer Game Design and Development - an introduction to Unity.  Created a simplistic 2.5D game.

• Overview of Gaming - designed, created, and playtested boardgames.

• Computer Graphics Imagery I, II - courses teaching introductory modeling, lighting, texturing, and composition in Maya.

• Animation I - storyboarded and created keyframe animations in Maya.

• Interactive Computer Graphics - experimented with shader code to render 3D geometry with realistic lighting and texturing.  Created a final project incorporating animation, multiple cameras, and collision detection.

• Human-Computer Interaction - used mocking software to quickly create an application prototype, then iterated on it based on usability labs and feedback from users.

• Graphical User Interfaces - explored event-driven programming and the MVC architecture.  Used Java Swing to implement a UI-heavy application.

• Software Design - introduced to design patterns and UML.  Created an application with capabilities to create, take, and tabulate digital questionnaires.

• Software Engineering - walked through the entire software development cycle, from requirements gathering and design to testing and deployment.  Implemented a server-based Checkers game.

• Data Structures - learned the implementations and applications of various common data structures.

• Advanced Programming Tools and Techniques - gained exposure to a variety of programming languages, environments, and operating systems.

• Web and Mobile App Development - experimented with making calls to web APIs and creating applications specifically for Android deployment.

• Engineering Design Lab I, II, III - the freshman design sequence, including challenges to reverse-engineer a camera shutter, program an accelerometer and LEGO Mindstorms robot, and build a Rube Goldberg machine.

• Computation Lab I, II - an introduction to programming from an engineering perspective, using MATLAB. 

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References

• Dr. Filippos Vokolos - Senior Design Advisor - fiv22@drexel.edu