Work Experience
A summary of my professional roles, responsibilities, and contributions.
▶ Unity Software Developer
ASU EdPlus — SPLIT Studio
December 2022 – July 2025
Unity Software Developer
ASU EdPlus — SPLIT Studio
Software developer and dedicated graphics engineer at SPLIT Studio, ASU EdPlus's student-run immersive technology lab. Engineered the visual pipeline for XR educational experiences across the DreamScape Learn platform and independent installations. From initial shader architecture through production deployment. Work has been experienced by 4,000+ university students and visitors to the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.
Highlights
- — Led real-time rendering development for the DreamScape Learn XR platform. Built water shaders, foliage decay systems, subsurface scattering, outline shaders for arctic rover models, carbon cube particle animations, and cow methane gas VFX — all modular and data-driven for artist extensibility. Research published in April 2025 found a 5-point STEM retention improvement among students using the platform.
- — Shipped the Wayfinders interactive exhibit at Bishop Museum's J. Watumull Planetarium (March 2025). Implemented autonomous pathfinding AI driving schooling fish behavior and developed the ocean water shader powering the installation's aquatic environments.
- — Managed migration of legacy rendering pipelines to modern, maintainable systems. Reduced technical debt and eliminated reliance on paid third-party shader assets by replacing them with custom-built equivalents.
- — Designed and shipped a modular particle animation system for educational simulations, enabling component-based reuse and reducing engineering overhead for new experience development.
Projects
Interactive installation at the Wayfinders exhibit at the J. Watumull Planetarium, Bishop Museum, Honolulu. Celebrates the resurgence of traditional Hawaiian wayfinding through interactive screens, touch interfaces, and VR canoe simulations developed in partnership with ASU. Contributions: fish pathfinding AI and ocean water shader.
XR simulation modules for ASU's Global Futures sustainability curriculum (CGF 494). Two flagship environments: an Arctic ice-floe experience teaching climate science (polar bear encounters, ice thickness measurement) and a coral reef restoration simulation. Served as primary graphics engineer — responsible for all visual systems including water rendering, foliage decay, outline shaders, and carbon/methane particle animations. Experiences reach 4,000+ enrolled students; published research (April 2025) confirmed a 5% STEM retention improvement.
foliage shaders, carbon molecule animation and modular particle system with entity pooling, globe unwrap to map visual effect