September 2017 - September 2019
Time Commitment: ~10 Hours / Week

I work along two other entrepreneurs, assisting with website & curricula development, marketing, and increasing social media presence.

I have planned and developed the entire curriculum for the following courses:

You can check out the website and the courses we offer below

I instruct weekly online and offline courses for all levels of 2D Game Development, creating and helping elementary and middle school students create video games using GameMaker Studio 2 (C++).

Furthermore, I also instruct weekly online and offline courses for all levels of Practical Coding, programming and helping high school students write programs and design websites using C++, Python (including Tkinter and Turtle), and HTML & CSS

April 2019 - Present
Time Commitment: 10-15 Hours / Week

Working with Swift and Firebase to optimize and develop new features for Logos News.

September 2018 - December 2018
Time Commitment: 6-12 Hours / Week

I commute to Quantasy's office in downtown LA once a week for six hours of work, and work remotely from my apartment on Sunday mornings for six hours designing levels, debugging the game, and working on ways to make design more efficient.

Summary

For this Fall 2018 internship, I am primarily working on the creation of new levels for the iOS app hit, Harvey's Hundreds (App Store). I have already created over 100 custom levels and plan on pumping out more as the internship continues. The process includes modifying both the progression screen and level data files (JSON), then pushing the updates to a Github repository that then gets manually pushed to an Amazon S3 server.

The newly created levels are then available to play on the QA app that is installed on my phone (without a need to rebuild the app). I then go through every level and make sure that they are optimized and fun to play for basically any kind of player.

Custom Level Generator (C++)

I developed a level generator that takes the following input: the number of levels to generate, and the starting point (level). The generator's output is a text file that contains all of the levels generated and formatted properly, as well as the actual output (cout) just for viewing purposes. I felt that developing a level generator would be an excellent way to polish my programming skills (C++) with an "assignment" that would benefit me and make level design and creation a much more streamlined process. You can find the files at my Github repository with by clicking the button below.

Progression Screen, Level Optimizations

Modifying the progression screen is an essential part of getting the levels to be properly updated. One syntax error can render the entire build untestable; I found this out the hard way a couple times, and has helped me learn to an even greater degree how important syntax is in programming. The paths are set when updating the progression screen, but the positions of the images are variable and are always different to keep the level layout fresh for the player.

Thinking through each and every level carefully and playing through each and every level are completely different things. I found this out as I began to debug the levels and work on QA (quality assurance). Some levels that I thought would be very easy proved to be impossible without using powerups, and levels I expected to be difficult proved to be simple. I organized every new level that was being designed into a colorful spreadsheet that would then get remarks and constructive criticism from every playtester on the project. By separating every set of levels (sets contain 16 levels) by color, the spreadsheet was super easy to read!

September 2017 - May 2018
Time Commitment: 10-15 Hours / Week

I spent 26 weeks promoting Microsoft via marketing, conducting over 25 in-depth conversations and weekly group announcements with UCLA students per week. It was a great experience because I got to connect with countless UCLA students and faculty!

I gathered over 1000 total likes through Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. The majority of my likes came from Instagram, and I had more than 15 Instagram stories that received over 180 views. The goal of these tasks were to increase awareness of new Microsoft products (like the Surface Book 2 and Xbox One X), and seeing some of my friends get new Books instaed of Macbooks made my day.

I documented activity weekly by sending a report to my boss, containing a couple paragraphs on the weekly activities done, results of the surveys, occasional videos and quotes from tabling.

Last but not least, I participated in the Tiny House event, which was two straight days of extremely crazy Microsoft marketing, consisting of social media contests (beforehand), raffles, and a ton of free nitro coffee. The Tiny House is a portable two story mini building that allows around 50 people at the time to view all of the Surface products and experience games like Cuphead, 2K18, and Madden 18 on two Xbox One S'.

September 2017 - December 2017 (HTML/CSS)
September 2018 - December 2018 (JavaScript)
Time Commitment: 2 Hours / Week

During Fall 2017, I taught 27 students the basics of HTML 5 and CSS 3 over 10 weeks, using a custom made GitHub organization to allow all students to concurrently view the progress behind their site throughout the course.

During Fall 2018, I will be teaching students at the same school the basics of JavaScript over 10 weeks, and will consist of a similarly constructed GitHub organization that will allow all students to view their progress throughout the course.

Images will be posted below from Fall 2018 when the curriculum starts.

August 2017 - April 2018
Time Commitment: 6-12 Hours / Week

Over the course of eight months, I tutored more than 10 students ranging from early high school to community college students both online and offline, teaching the following subjects:

Students that were preparing for the ACT Math and Science sections saw their scores increase from between 3 and 6 points after 10 hours of tutoring over the course of 5 weeks.

Students learning AP Japanese became proficient with reading and writing over half of the 400 required Kanji characters, learned numerous vocabulary through my personal intermediate Japanese materials, and practiced speaking Japanese with accent fixing for four hours a week.

I have provided a list of data that corresponds to my teaching below, obtained at the Varsity Tutors account.