My name is Aaron Schultz. I am currently a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, majoring in Game Design & Development. I have been programming for over 4 years, dabbling in Visual Basic, Java, C++, and PHP, before settling upon C#. I enjoy the technical challenges and interactive results of game development, and spend the majority of my free time developing personal projects or researching gaming-related algorithms.
education
- Rochester Institute of Technology - Game Design & Development
- 2007 – 2011 (Expected)
- GPA 4.0 (4.0)
An undergrad at RIT, I have worked through a curriculumn that balances a strong technical core with art and design. Short 10-week quarters and group-based projects have provided a wealth of experience with project and team management, while also requiring extremely rapid development of fully functioning demos. Though much work thus far has been focused on C#/XNA development or rapid-prototyping with Flash and ActionScript 3, I am transitioning into C++ and DirectX for future productions.
related experience
- Microsoft - Find and Organize Team
- Software Development Engineer in Test
- June 2009 - August 2009
TBD
- University of Rochester - Brain & Cognitive Sciences
- March 2009 - May 2009
Worked with UnrealScript and Unreal Tournament 2004 to implement a dual-screen and gabor-display system for researching the effects of video games on the brain.
- Rochester Institute of Technology - ITS Resnet
- September 2007 - Present (Excluding summers)
Provide tech support for students and staff. Perform data backup, malware removal, and hardware diagnosis. Research solutions to difficult problems and document processes on internal wiki.