Leland Dawson
lsdawson@ucsc.edu
(650) 823-1277
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Education

University of California, Santa Cruz
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Expected Graduation June 2016

University of California, Santa Cruz
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science: Game Design

Work Experience

UC Santa Cruz
Teaching Assistant for CMPM 170, 171, 172
October 2014 - June 2015
Main Activities

• Teach weekly section
• Select student games being pitched and help develop their ideas to be pitched to a panel of industry judges
• Provide feedback to students to help improve the designs of their games
• Grade weekly assignments
• Teach SCRUM, UML, 2d engine design to students.

• Built customizable interface
• Set up voice recognition
• Client side calls to Thing Control's server
• Backported app to android 1.0

• Programmed games for windows mobile, iPhone, iPad, blackberry, pc, mac, and linux
• Implemented various game modes such as arena combat and king of the hill
• Set up enemy stat sheet systems
• Combat AI
• Interface design
• Dialog systems

• Tutored two students in shell scripting and the unix environment.
• Gave personalized assignments to supplement class material.

• Taught introductory C game programming to users online.
• Covered material such as object oriented design and algorithms.
• Helped communicate the wishes of the community to the development team.
• Filed bug reports.
• Fixed bugs and added features, releasing a new version of gE

Game Projects

Forsaken
Lead Developer
January 2014 - September 2014
Main Activities

• Outline core engine of the game and uml diagrams
• Procedural generation of rooms
• Build release and managing git repo
• Tools engineer, developing level editor and scripts
• Ported the game to mac and linux

Absolute Precision
Developer/Designer
June 2014
Main Activities

• Designed game modes
• Player shooting controls
• Particle Effects

Shred the Red
Developer/Designer
May 2014
Main Activities

• Obstacle Generation
• Particle Effects

Falo's Vegetable Shack
Artist/Designer
April 2014
Main Activities

• Created all of the game's art
• Established mechanics of the game

Shades of Light
Developer/Designer/Artist
January 2013 - March 2013
Main Activities

• Programmed dynamic lighting engine
• Designed puzzles and game mechanics
• Implemented player interactions
• Worked on level editor
• Artist