Birth
Being born on April Fools' Day is not a prefered start to life, but you won't see me complaining. Just do not think I'm pranking you when you get a birthday invitation.
Birth
Being born on April Fools' Day is not a prefered start to life, but you won't see me complaining. Just do not think I'm pranking you when you get a birthday invitation.
Preschool and First Wrestling Season
For preschool I attended Olentangy Shanahan Special Needs Preschool due to my minor childhood speech impediment. During this time I also started wrestling as an Olentangy Little Brave.
Graduated Elementary School
My first two years of elementary school I went to Olentangy Arrowhead Elementary School. Then Olentangy opened a new elementary school near my house, called Johnnycake Cornors Elementary School.
Middle School Sports
As a seventh grader at Berkshire Middle School another new school in the Olentangy School District. I was eligible for school ran sports, one of the school sports available was wrestling.
First Introdution to Coding
While I have always been interested in how things worked as well as math, it was not until middle school when I finally wrote my first program in a web design class. That class gave me my first glimpse of how the internet and computers are designed.
Graduated Middle School
Though, both elementary and middle school classes were very easy and always scored in the top precentages on standardized tests. Although, what was to come was not going to be as easy.
Freshmen Year of High School
During my first year of high school I took my first class in computer graphics and made the junior varsity wrestling team. I made podium every tournament I went to that year.
Sophmore Year of High School
After a successful freshmen wrestling season, I then tried out for varsity my sophmore year and made it. Within that same year I got a job working at Panera Bread.
Junior Year of High School
With sights set on college and graduating I decide to apply to go to Delaware Area Career Center to study computer programing, for my last two years of high school. Also that year competed for the Ohio High School State Championship and made it all the way to districts.
Skills USA Mystic Mazes
Representing DACC at Skills USA Ohio State Championship me and two other peers created a 3D first person sword puzzle adventure game called Mystic Mazes.
Senior Year of High School
With a great GPA and ACT score I achieved the goals I had set. For the rest of my high school career still ahead of me, I set my sights on being a wrestling state qualifier and going for nationals in video game design.
High School Graduation
In my final wrestling season I made it within one match from my goal of state qualifer, but at DACC I made it to Business Professionals of America's National Competition for me and my peers STEM game called Mars Mission.
Freshman Year of College
I decided to attend Shawnee State University to follow my passion for game design and computer programing by enrolling in their Game Engineering and Computer Programing bachelor’s degree.
Larp Quest
For my first college game I made a top down tile based 2D shooter in Python using the Pygame library. This was my first time creating a game without a game engine.
Sophmore Year of College
Sophmore year was my first time I had been truly challenged at school. Classes Like Computer Graphics show me how complex software can be.
Descent of the Viglant
Shawnee State Universty offers two video game focused degrees the "coders" and "artists." An artist had a game idea and with the help of another coder we created a demo of the game and won the SSU Game Design Competetion.
Junior Year of College
From RealTime Interative to Networking and Communications. In RealTime we studied game engines such as Unity and Unreal. In Networking and Comunications we worked with Arduino Unos to communicate and send data over wire and radio.
First Software Development Job
Over the summer in-between my Junior and Senior year of college I got hired at Seccuro Group out of Durango, CO. Here I worked as an IT Engineer, I also worked for a sibling company called All Aboard Enterntainment working as a full stack developer creating C# APIs and React.
Senior Year of College
My final year of college with courses such as: Automata, Optimizations, Artifial Intellagence, and compiler to take. Along with my Senior Project, which I then decided to create a VR game called Submarine VR.