Dylan Ford

Experience

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  Valhalla Studios Bifrost

  Sept 2011 - Apr 2012

  Trainee

  Designing and reviewing games, producing a 3D model following all steps from concept art to animation, programming basic games.Also basic rigging, camera operation, film editing and sound work.

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  Red Rooster

  Feb 2013 - Jan 2014

  Customer Service Assistant

  Service front desk customers, service Drive thru customers, clean front shop, stock fridge etc.

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  Honeyvale Games

  Jul 2014 - Oct 2017

  Producer, Developer, Designer, Marketing Manager

  I started Honeyvale Games with a vision for Alchemy Punch, a casual mobile game, and sought out David Upcher to work on the art assets. My primary responsibilities are to handle anything other than art assets, to ensure that David can focus on creating and polishing them as much as possible. This can lead me to tasks such as creating digital art assets for our website as well as the aforementioned tasks.You can find out more information about Honeyvale, our positions within it, and Alchemy Punch by visiting:honeyvalegames.com Show less

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  Queensland University of Technology

  Mar 2017 - Jan 2018

  Tutor for classes primarily within the Bachelor of Games and Interactive Environments degree. Responsibilities include planning and running in-person tutorials, answering student questions through email, marking papers, and participating in regular meetings with other teaching staff working to improve the structure and coordinate our teaching efforts.Subjects taught include:DXB303: Programming for Visual DesignersIGB220: Fundamentals of Game DesignIGB321: Immersive Level Design Show less

  • Android Developer

    Aug 2017 - Jan 2018

  • Tutor

    Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
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  Croomo | Inspiring Learning Experiences

  Apr 2017 - Aug 2017

  Front-end web developer

  Short-term contract to assist a large team with an approaching deadline. First project involved working wtih 10-15 people personally to get their work, or their teammates' work, into a web app the company was developing. Process involved designing a QA workflow for the team to follow, testing and running QA passes on pages of content, implementing snippets of HTML and SaSS code, and entering data into a custom backend.Second project involved a more typical web development contract building templates in HTML / SaSS for an existing wordpress. Deliverable added more frameworks for the marketing team to build customized pages, and for bugs to be fixed / templates to be changed for pre-existing content. Show less

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  Red Rock Softworks

  Feb 2018 - Jun 2018

  Unity Developer

  Remote contractor for turn-based strategy game similar to The Banner Saga or Disgaea. Worked on implementing new character functionality, adapted existing functionality, and on Unity editor windows to allow in-game data to be easily edited. Also worked on a separate unity project for manipulating large amounts of data, which also made use of MVVM architectural pattern and third-party libraries.

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  District Technologies

  Jul 2018 - Mar 2020

  Software Engineer

  Unity app for iOS and Android which I brought from version 1 to 2, and am supporting until version 3. Location-based augmented reality running app where users can run races with checkpoints they must physically travel to and complete challenges for points.Responsibilities:- Adapted and refactored much of version 1 of the app to fit longer-term needs, focusing on quick responses to changing requirements to the design, users, and sponsors- Built UI and logic using an adapted MVVM framework for Unity, including, but not limited to: event registration, race UI (waypoints, challenges, results), user profiles, login screen, and account creation- Built functions for a REST API to perform secure and complex operations in TypeScript, using Jest to implement test-driven development to ensure stability for instant live deployments- Planned Firebase data structure, and assisted in implementing security rules to restrict how users can read/write data- Fleshed out project roadmap in Asana from UI designs and international business team specifications- Wrote documentation and built UML diagrams for features and designs- Reviewed pull requests in Git, and tested features to ensure their stability before being published- Implemented Agile/Scrum sprint structure with planning, review and retrospective, rotating the scrum master role through the team each sprintTechnologies used:- C#, TypeScript- Google Firebase- NoSQL- Node.js- Jest- Git (Bitbucket)- Vuforia- Mapbox- Unity- NUnit- .NET- NoSQL- Zenject- Jenkins- Asana- Nuclino Show less

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  Self-employed

  Apr 2020 - Dec 2024

  Tabletop Roleplaying Game Designer

  Independent tabletop roleplaying game designer, working on both small and medium-scale indie games.

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  MAXART

  Aug 2022 - Nov 2024

  Senior Software Engineer