About

I am a game programmer with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science with Games Development. I am from Ireland and most recently was a lead programmer in the MassDiGI Summer Innovation Program. I was on the Crafting Life team.

Resume

Skills		LEADERSHIP: Lead Programmer for the game Crafting Life – as a part of MassDiGI (Summer 2015) Lead Programmer and Lead Artist for College Team Project (Spring – Summer 2015) COMMUNICATION: I tend to bond well with people and form very good relationships in a short amount of time, this makes communication and efficiency through communication within teams very easy. PROGRAMMING: I have been programming in Java and C# for 3 years in college. In that time I’ve done several small projects for the purpose of expanding my programming knowledge and taken on as Lead Programmer for my latest project. ART: For my third year team project in college I was lead artist and had to create art assets using Aseprite a free pixel art tool. Art is more of a hobby but it does mean I understand how to work with artists and have handled large amounts of art assets created by Game Artists. COMPUTER PROGRAMS: Eclipse (Java), JGrasp (Java), Unity (C#), MonoDevelop (C#) Perforce (Version Control) Aseprite(Pixel Art) Sony Vegas (Video Editing for youtube) Brackets (Web Development) DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES: The development process I’m most familiar with is Kanban which is like a modified scrum. It involved a white board full of tasks represented through sticky notes and daily morning stand up meetings.
Work History		LEAD PROGRAMMER, INTERNSHIP FOR MASSDIGI AT BECKER COLLEGE, Worcester, MA 19th May 2015 – 7th August 2015 CONSTUCTION WORKER, MBC BUILDERS LTD. , Donegal, Ireland Summer – 2014, Summer – 2013, Summer – 2012, Summer – 2011, Summer – 2010 QA TESTER, 3D Issue, Donegal Ireland February 2009 – April 2009
Education		Letterkenny Institute of Technology, CO Donegal, Ireland 2012 – 2015, Merit 1 Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science with Games Development

JOSEPH GILLEN

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