Andrew

Gillies

203-***-****

adetyq@r.postjobfree.com

Ridgefield, CT

https://www.linkedin.com/in/

andrew-gillies-601b507/

EDUCATION

Savannah College of Art and

Design

Savannah, GA

Graduation Date: May 2010

SKILLS

Programming Languages

HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Python

C++

C#

jQuery

Frameworks

React

NodeJS

Bootstrap

Software/Tools

Linux

Visual Studio

VSCode

Git

Unity

WORK EXPERIENCE

Co-Founder and Software Engineer, Deadly Demon Games Aug 2013 - Present

• Co-founded a game company which, in under 3 years, grew from 1 individual to a team of 25, including writers, artists, and playtesters

• Oversaw all aspects of development, including design, art, writing, and publishing

• Designed a unique game system for Tabletop Role Playing Game, including 12 races, 11 powers, and 8 methods, allowing for 1000+ characters

• Led team of 15 playtesters through weekly games to ensure quality and balance Character Class Library Generator

• Designed and built a class library in C# that enables users to generate 1000+ characters and automates character progression and interaction through the game

• Leveraged Object-Oriented Programming, partial classes, interfaces, state machines, and polymorphism to handle complex edge cases within the character logic

• Spearheaded complete refactoring by incorporating design patterns like delegates and lambda functions reducing codebase from 15K lines to 8K lines of code

• Created a test harness to generate an XML document ~10K character permutations and progression from level 1 to 100 to verify code functionality Online Handbook

• Created online portal for Tabletop Role Playing Game to allow players to quickly access and navigate all game-related information

• Designed and built MongoDB for 12 races, 11 powers, 8 races, and 150+ abilities

• Designed a standalone API to access MongoDB using Node.js, Express, and Mongoose

• Developed a CMS with React Hooks to easily manage and organize thousands of entries

• Collaborated closely with UI/UX designer to develop an intuitive interface for 250+ information-rich pages across 6 different categories Web Developer, Wooster School Jun 2012 - May 2013

• Created a web application, using JQuery and WAMP stack, for enrollment in a private school’s summer activities for 500+ students and parents

• Designed and built 6 data models and 4 relationships using MySQL database

• Designed and built JQuery interface for users to enroll in 50+ activities Software Engineer, Datto Jun 2010 - Apr 2012

• Worked at hyper-growth data backup company (grew 500% over 2 years), to manage petabytes of customer data through physical strategy

• Created automated Linux script to automatically sync data, reducing the amount of time spent on that task by 90% for the entire department

• Utilized a LAMP stack to create a tracking system to monitor the status of hundreds of hard drives, further reducing time spent managing hard drives by 20%

• Used JQuery to build a portal to grant real-time updates to other departments, completely eliminating communication bottlenecks

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