Shaun A Prince

About Me

Passionate Marine Corps veteran and recent graduate of the University of California Irvine looking to help develop efficient and revolutionary software solutions. With both self-taught and academic trained coding knowledge, can rapidly adjust to existing codebases and new coding languages. Backed up by outstanding interpersonal communication, teaching, and public speaking skills.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Game Science from the University of California, Irvine. 

Resume

Games

Bombs Away

  • UCI Computer Game Science Capstone (Oct 2019 – March 2020)
  • Team lead, Lead designer, Gameplay programmer (C#)
  • By Team Penguin Digital

Bombs Away is a frantic station management game set aboard a steampunk airship bomber. The player is a lone crewman on a ship designed for 9 and must switch between the various stations to bomb targets, fly, shoot enemy airships, and repair the ship just to name a few. Balance bombing all target buildings while minimizing harm to innocent bystanders.

Link to Game
Gameplay video

Break the Ice

  • Networked Competitive game
  • Team lead, Lead designer, Gameplay programmer (C#)
  • 5 student team (2019)

A competitive penguin vs polar bear survival game. It is the penguin’s job to try and survive above water as long as possible while the polar bear attempts to destroy the ice the penguin is on.

Emerge

  • Video Game Development Club @ UCI quarter project
  • Team lead, Lead Designer, Gameplay programmer (C#)
  • 2019

Find the special bottle of alcohol before the coppers arrive in this digital escape room set in a noir speakeasy.

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LOOSE!

  • Video Game Development Clube @ UCI quarter project
  • Team lead, Lead Designer, Gameplay programmer (C#) 
  • 2019

Load rocks into your catapult and launch them over the walls. Switch to your scout in the tower for a better view of your shot. Reload, adjust, and LOOSE!

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Key Skills

Unity Engine Game Development

Git Version Control and Code Documentation

HTML/CSS Web Design Basics

MySQL Databases and Structures

C#/ C++/ Python/Javascript

Redis/Docker/Jenkins/Ansible fundamentals

Machine Learning/AI

Adapting to Existing Codebases

Object-Oriented Programming

Testing and Debugging

Agile Project Management

  • Team Leadership
  • Communication Skills
  • Classroom Instruction
  • Lore/World Building
  • Agile Project Management

Experience

PNC Bank

January 2021 – Present

Software Developer Associate

Work on an internal server categorization tool on the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team using
Python, Redis, Docker, Jenkins, Linux command line, and Ansible tools.

  • Spearheaded the rapid transition for hosting our technology on virtual machines. Resulting in
    minimal downtime during the final changeover.
  • Restored operations in 1/4th the allotted time whenever our system suffered an outage.
  • Due to key higher-level departures, volunteered to take up some of the missing tech lead
    responsibilities such as task assignments and training.

United States Marine Corps

 Aug 2011- Aug 2015

Firepower Control Team Chief

2014 – 2015

Supervised the training and operations of a small team tasked with conducting close air support and artillery/naval gunfire missions with foreign national armies. Designed and operated computer-based scenarios that tested the user’s knowledge, stress management, and problem-solving abilities.

  • Managed logistics for 50+ serialized items and 200+ non-serialized components resulting in zero losses throughout over 15 dynamic local, interstate, or international training operations.
  • Led a team of 3 individuals through daily physical fitness drills, classroom instruction, and a variety of high-stress combat scenarios, increasing the team’s overall proficiency by over 15%.
  • Implemented the use of trigonometric functions on a grid-based map system, allow the users to calculate differences in angle and location when map coverage was unavailable.

Joint Fires Observer

2011-2015

Directed and controlled military aircraft and surface artillery systems in the safe and accurate completion of attacks. Additionally, taught a multitude of classes to spread this expansive skill set to non-joint fires observers and foreign military units.

  • Safely and effectively executed 100+ live airstrikes and artillery missions throughout many dynamic combat simulations and exercises.
  • Instructed a total of 200+ foreign military personnel from 10 different countries to successfully direct American aircraft, artillery, and naval weapon systems. This instruction more than doubled their access to air and surface support assets.
  • Redesigned the Marine Corps’ terrain sketch format providing 3 times the data and allowing missions to be conducted approximately 40% faster than the previous design.
  • Honor Graduate of the Marine Artillery Scout Observer Course while simultaneously tutoring 5 struggling students, all of whom passed.

Education

University of California, Irvine

B.S. in Computer Game Science

Graduated March 2020

Irvine Valley College

General Education and Transfer Certification

2015 – 2017

Central Texas College

Microsoft Software and Systems Academy

2015