Julia Greig

Experience

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  City of Toronto

  May 2011 - Aug 2011

  Summer Student - Technical

  Created macros in Visual Basic using Microsoft Excel to appropriately extract, sort, and modify administrative information. Worked independently on open ended projects with minimal instruction and achieved successful results.

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  My Legal Briefcase

  May 2012 - Aug 2012

  Summer Student Developer

  Learned HTML, CSS, PHP, and Javascript on the job to implement and test changes to the company website (both front-end and back-end improvements). Researched and developed an automated system to generate and complete case-specific legal forms as PDFs. MySQL database management.

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  City of Toronto

  May 2013 - Aug 2013

  IT Technical Support

  IT Assistant in charge of re-imaging computers, managing proper software installation, assisting City of Toronto employees with technical problems, and troubleshooting technical malfunctions. Worked with Windows 7 machines, as well as map/plan printing and plotting equipment.

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  City of Toronto

  May 2014 - Aug 2014

  IT Technical Support

  Assisting internal clients with technical issues providing diagnostics and troubleshooting. Software support and system updates for Windows 7 machines. Hardware inventory and database management.

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  ReThrive

  Nov 2014 - Apr 2015

  Co-Founder

  Participated in Cohort 1 of Startup Next Toronto pre-accelerator. Involved in everything entrepreneurial including customer research, development and interviews, web design with AB testing, product mockups, logo design, branding, marketing, product research, and web app development using meteor.js.

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  Medlantis Inc.

  Apr 2015 - Nov 2019

  Director Client Technology

  Duties include software design and development, user experience design, client facing product delivery and review, analytics and user flow tracking, and website management and development. Managing software development teams, code reviews, software testing & QA, and weekly agile sprints to demo, deliver and launch new products and features requested by our clients.Handling all technical customer service to ensure frictionless usability and ongoing maintenance of the platform.Brand design - logos, banners, advertisements, & all marketing material. Show less

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  Game Dev Friends Club

  Jan 2018 - Mar 2023

  Game Developer & Community Management

  DEVELOPMENT:Solo game design and development using C# and Unity2D and 3D games showcase available on itch: https://juul1a.itch.io/Created tools to be used in Unity such as - "Sunset Script" - tinting assets through a selection of colours over time- "Bullet Hell" - Bullet hell pattern generator for bosses, all customizable in the unity inspectorPuzzle games made for game jams within a set time period (48h, 1 week)2D Pixel art in AespriteHand painting game assets with watercolours - including 2D props, characters, textures, etc.Basic 3D Modelling in BlenderLevel Design in 2D and 3D worldsMade a simulator using state machines for management games (space cafe simulator)COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT:- Discord server of over 1000 game developers - Recording tutorials, art, and other game development content for YouTube (over 7k subscribers)- Live streaming the development and art process as a Twitch affiliate- Blog management as well as writing and publishing articles on gamedevfriends.com, featuring guest blogs from other developers & sharing resources with the community.- Creating asset packs, guides, code packages and freebies for other game developers to use- 100 Days of Game Dev challenge where I gave out badges for each milestone, encouraged developers to share their daily progress in our discord server.- Created & coordinated a collaboration community game (for a halloween special) where developers each created their own ghost to be featured in the game like a gallery.- Developed relationships with other game dev influencers including Dani, DevDuck, and Jabrils Show less

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  Freelance

  Mar 2023 - now

  Unity Game Developer

  Working with Indie Game Studios on various projects in UnityGame ArchitectureEndless runner style game using gyroscope for controls - You play as a river flowing along, avoiding branches & collecting flowers.Isometric mobile adventure game - Dungeon crawling & using items to navigate baddies and collect coinsGameplay programmingLevel design

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  Self-employed

  Apr 2024 - now

  Game Development Teacher

  Teaching object oriented programming in C#Growing student's understanding of the Unity system through hands-on, student-led developmentEnabling creative exploration and facilitation of their ideasGuiding students on how to work with game design principles