Experience

Alex has made great efficiency improvements in the projects he has joined, taken ownership of key features, mentored new hires, and helped pioneer both new education methods and biometric research methods through games.

Alex has worked for Garmin LABS, Brain Drain Studios, and Unity Technologies in a game development capacity.

He also has worked on many government game engine projects. Though these projects cannot be shown publicly, they required a great amount of game development skills, technical precision, and attention to detail.

Resume

Garmin LABS

Full-time development of projects using Unity Engine for Garmin LABS - Garmin's experimental and innovation sector. Alex is a senior engineer in this role, and was brought on for his game development expertise.

He is currently working on Home Tee Hero, Garmin's signature golf game that uses real-life shot data as input.

Capgemini Government Solutions

As an extension of his role for Unity Technologies, Alex and his team moved to Capgemini Government Solutions.

Alex continued his work on the prolific government Digital Twin project, taking ownership of many key features and workflows in this project.

Shipped projects:
- Mimeo Digital Twin (XCite)
Skills: Unity Engine, C#, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Addressables, OpenStreetMaps, GPX, Argo

Unity Technologies

Full-time development of projects using Unity Engine for Unity clients. As a part of the industry and government subset of the Create internal organization, Alex created simulations, games, and more.

Alex has worked on a prolific government Digital Twin project for Unity, taking ownership of many key features and workflows in this project.

Shipped projects:
- S3 Digital Twin
- EDGE HMI Simulation
Skills: Unity Engine, C#, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Addressables, OpenStreetMaps, GPX, Argo

Avatar Partners

Avatar Partners is an augmented and virtual reality company with a wide breadth of projects.

Alex worked on and shipped a virtual reality electrician's training application. Alex took ownership of several key features, and helped design and develop training modules. He also worked on several research projects, creating test environments for AI and HMI's.

Shipped projects:
- Machine Common Sense
- Promising People VR
- EDGE HMI Simulation
Skills: Unity Engine, C#, Addressables, Kafka

Global Game Jam

As a longtime hackathon/game jam veteran and organizer, the Global Game Jam organization asked him to join as the Regional Organizer for the Midwest United States. As the Midwest RO, Alex manages the jam sites for 18 states each year, often covering over 30 jam sites.

It is Alex's responsibility to vet prospective jam sites across the Midwest, and facilitate the success of organizers’ local events by seeing to their individual needs. He has been the core point of contact for the event in the Midwest since 2020.

Oracle Cerner

At Cerner, a Healthcare Information Technology company now owned by Oracle, Alex worked with the Capacity Management organization, which develops solutions that help move patients and personnel through hospitals. His contributions included greatly improving processing times for hospital operations, mentoring new hires and teaching them best practices, taking responsibility for approval of quality code, and development on the full stack.

Skills: Java, Springboot, SQL, Hibernate, JavaScript, React, Docker, Kubernetes, Junit, and Mockito.

University of Kansas, School of Engineering

After his education, the University of Kansas' School of Engineering hired Alex directly to create an augmented reality application for use in civil engineering classrooms. The application augments 3D visuals and relevant data over the real-world MOLA models they used in the classroom, and was a resounding success.

The improvement in student learning stemming from this project were demonstrable, and Alex is a co-author on an academic publication on these findings.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S294967802500008X

Skills: C#, Unity, AR/VR, Vuforia SDK, linear algebra

ZOLOZ

As a Game Development Intern, Alex worked for ZOLOZ, a biometrics company owned by an affiliate of Alibaba. He was chosen for this internship as the top game development candidate in the greater Kansas City area.

Alex independently designed and developed a unique interface and a series of seven games, to collect unique biometric data and process it, in order to further research on new experimental technology.

Shipped project: ZOLOZ Wallet App & Games
Skills: Unity, C#, Python, SQL, UI/UX

Alex Crane Portfolio