Professional Portfolio

-Ported iOS Xcode application to Unity 3D Windows

-Developed Oculus VR version of application with VR UI and full controller and HMD tracking support

-Developed geospatial interpolation engine for interpolation of XYZ contour files with Shapefiles

-Implemented KDTree for optimization of interpolation engine

-Developed batch interpolation engine to interpolate sets of XYZ files with Shapefiles

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-Developed Unity 3D Google Analytics offline cache for capturing events when device is offline

-Developed Visual Studio/C# .NET console application to monitor cache and send to Google Analytics when device is connected 

-Integrated Unity 3D and console application to work together and monitor each other

-Developed AR book platform

-Integration of speech/reading recognition and augmented reality 

-Developed an iOS Unity 3D Native Plugin to integrate OpenEars speech recognition with Unity 

-Demonstration of VR for a 3D children's book

-Developed base VR interaction framework that can be used for various content for interactive VR

-Integrated OpenEars via a custom plugin to provide embedded speech recognition in VR

-Developed VR user interface to visualize speech data and parameters

-Developed an algorithm to tweak the noise filtering for the speech system based on changing noise levels in the environment

-Migrated web-site from Drupal to WordPress

-Developed custom Drupal template

Managed content development and technical implementation

-Utilizes ARKit Plugin for Unity 3D to demonstrate a talking 3D character on a table without the user of an image marker

-Touch sensor on 3D AR button using Unity touch and ray casting API 

Interactive AR buttons with trigger for coupon 

-Particle system using several custom smoke textures for realistic looking mist 

Particle system for fireworks 

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-Externalization of Unity 3D functions into XML and C# engine code allowing for dynamic and interactive AR (and non-AR) experiences to be crafted using XML without internal working knowledge of Unity 3D and Vuforia. 

-De-serialize XML into C# objects using Unity/.NET serialization API 

-The engine parses the XML and launches the experiences defined there using 100% run-time code without any game objects (except the engine) defined in the Unity scene hierarchy. 

-The purpose of this project is to build a library of re-useable code for new projects that is consistent, easy to maintain, and easy to extend. 

-2D animated characters on packaging and multi-marker detection and tracking for individual character stickers 

-Developed 2D automatic lip-syncing system using speech recognition and sprite animation to automate 2D lip-syncing animation instead of manually key-framing every frame

-Integration of speech/reading recognition and augmented reality 

-Developed ePub XML and CSS including SMIL based media overlay (read-a-long word highlighting) 

-Visual editor and adventure game engine for visually building complex adventure games with many scenes, characters, animation, voice acting, inventory objects, puzzles, and quests

-Integrated several 3D scenes from 3DS into Unity 3D

-Configured shaders and materials

-Utilized Unity 3D Standard and HDRP rendering pipelines

-Implemented photorealistic reflections and lighting

-Integrated acoustics audio plugins for realistic audio

-Configured Unity Analytics and Cloud Diagnostics

-Variable texture combiner

-3D scene save/load in XML

-Complex Interaction and Timeline authoring tool

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-Developed WHEN app to help gardeners know when to plant specific seeds based on frost dates and their zip code

-Integration of location services and geocoding from Google to translate geolocation into zipcode

-Integration of push notification services

-Retail kiosk triggers instructional video showing shoppers how to augment at the kiosk

-Allows shoppers to try augmented reality in the store without having to download the app

-Software developed for Android devices utilizes the proximity and ambient light sensors for motion detection

-Native Android code was developed to keep the kiosk software running circumventing users from exiting the app

-Demonstration of "gyro" based VR when a VR headset is not available

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-User begins by looking at the book using a VR headset in AR mode

-User sees the book pages through the VR headset along with virtual user interface buttons

-User can gaze at buttons on book to trigger VR mode

-Takes advantage of stereoscopic AR and VR to provide a mixed reality experience

-Configured consumer and resellers online shopping system in Volusion

-Developed custom user interface to match main site and add additional functionality using HTML/CSS/JS and Volusion's custom template system

-Implemented Unity 3D and Vuforia cloud for cloud recognition

-Parses XML associated with AR image targets (print advertisements) for app user experience

-Displays company information for each image target using dynamic UI generation

Loads cloud based videos and Unity Asset Bundles to dynamically render AR videos and 3D content

-Augmented Reality Fairy Plant Tags 

-Developed face poses using Maya animation system for lip syncing 

-Programming, including lip syncing automation using Facefx (www.facefxcom) and animation blending in Unity 

-Optimized 3D mesh and texture data 

-Augmented Reality Signs for Retail 

-AR Videos for Boulder International Film Festival 

-AR Game 

-Development and integration of mobile app speech recognition (Unity and Objective-C plugin) with a cloud-based database to store speech profiles, accuracy, performance, and user voice recordings. 

-AR of a cylinder

-Lip syncing is automated through custom viseme parser and animator

-Utilizes the ES Children's Book Platform

-Animated AR book with voice narration, and word highlighting

-Developed an Adobe Native Extension to provide augmented reality to Flash/Flex based mobile apps

-Utilized the Metaio AR SDK and wrapped with custom code to provide ANE and AR capability

-Developed geospatial Shapefile renderer for 3D visualization and interactivity across surface and sub-surface 3D mesh

-Dynamic mesh generation and spline contour line rendering based on geospatial data files

-Binary, XML, and JSON data format programming

-Integrated with Azure Cloud API

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-Developed geospatial data API in Azure

-Developed back-end geospatial data processing scripts

-Integrated API with Unity 3D

-Developed ARKit Facial Recognition app for horror masks

-Includes facial tracking and content integration for opening and closing mouth synchronized with real users mouth

-Java implementation of PocketSphinx speech recognition with Android Studio

-Recorded 360 degree video using a Theta 360 video camera

-Developed software to publish 360 video content for real estate as a VR app

-Developed AR app to bring characters to life on organic vegetable seeds

-Managed all aspects of app including integration of animation and voice acting content, user interface design

-Learn more at www.powerfulplants.net

Updated app to stream videos from Vimeo API rather then embed videos

Much smaller app footprint

-3D Interactive AR Animation synchronized with AR video using a chroma key shader 

Interactive AR (3D augmented globe with buttons) 

-AR Shooter Minigame using ARKit 

-Film festival app featuring schedule, film trailers, and augmented reality for the printed program 

-Cloud based XML data feed to drive user experience 

-AR Program Guide with augmented reality trailers 

-Unity 3D Particle System, Multiplayer API, and Physics System 

-Large AR playmat for multi-player AR Games 

-Hungry-Hungry Croc’s AR Game 

-Castles and Towers AR Game 

-Platform allows content producers and publishers to build companion apps for printed children's books

-Provides common features across any book regardless of the images or 3D content including 3D animated AR, Voice Narration, Spanish and English modes, Voice Recorder (Hear the story in user’s voice). 

-Developed an XML based story timeline and engine integrating 3D animation, multi-lingual voice acting, narration and word highlighting 

-Tool takes in PDF files, voice narration, and ePub3's and outputs ePub3 updates including SMIL file creation with proper word timing data to highlight words as they are being read aloud

-Developed custom shell scripts that utilize pdf command line tools to automate the process of converting aPDF file to an ePub3 with Word Timing data for Media Overlay (SMIL)

-Integration with Speechmatics speech to text API

-Produces SMIL files and updates ePub3 files to add voice narration and word highlighting

-Unity 3D tool that reads data produced to visualize and play voice narration to test our output

-Lip syncing is automated through custom viseme parser and animator

-Utilizes the ES Children's Book Platform

-3D AR book with animation, voice narration, and word highlighting

-Integrated the Metaio AR SDK into native Objective-C and Android Java 

-Wrote 3D rendering and memory management code