Luke Fox Portfolio

Work and Projects Summary

ICT Support Technician at St. Peter's Academy, Fenton Manor UK (Fulltime)

Develop and maintain an Enrolment System in Python (private repo)

IT Technician at Geeks on Wheels NZ (Fulltime)

Engineered Skateboard Mags and an e-commerce website skateboardware.com -- Not enough funding to keep this going.

Blockchain dev.: Developing an NFT project using Ethereum's programming language Solidity -- Creating smart-contracts.

Taught how to create a 2D-game (Brickbuster) using Python, to teach some inportant programming concepts.

Moving down to Educational Experience. Web development from scrath to ReactJS.

From my CS degree, I was fortunate to learn ASP.NET C#, Node, REST, APIs, Http requests, JSON; with databases, PHP, SQL, WAMP, SQL Server, NoSQL, and Oracle, and then the ReactJS library. The knowledge gained gave me a good understanding of web development and its dependences. When a JS framework breaks from a dependency update, it becomes frustrating having to fix something from not knowing my website is down. This portfolio is written in JS, CSS, HTML and only relies on the Github pages server, it has lasted since university days and doesnot rely on a framework.

Using C# and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) to make a language learning interactive app. Inheritance and encapsulation used. Code/App on GitHub

(Cluttered screenshot, the classes were not designed to run everything at once there are different menus if you download from Github.)

Click here for Github

I am very happy with my employment position, however if your reading this and looking for a senior engineer, and think I might be able to help parttime on weekends, send an email.

Moving on to Unreal using blueprints

via GIPHY

During the last computer science year Covid hit. I used the time to create 2 horizontal sliced Unreal games. One was uploaded to Mega. linked via Github. The other is on a computer in NZ; I'm in the UK now.

Luke's Ultimate Roll a Ball demo: Rollaverse another Unity game.

Web Development outside of university

Work place settings, websites can be maintained however as a solo developer, my blog style websites are now deprecated, SEO and PPC cost too much, mainstream website builders EG GoDaddy pay to take index prioity. From the experience I've learnt, anyone wanting to host their domain, have a mainstream website built-site and link it to your serverside site until you get enough traffic. Also some internet providers donot allow hosting. If you enjoy programming from a JS framework, I recommend Vercel, it's what I used for the blockchain market place site. The other sites were: lukeslanguagelearning and skateboardware.

... Blueprint Unreal video from YouTube relinked.

The other site was devoted to the local skate community and promoted Skateboard Mags for skateboard wheels; my invention never took off; needed funding for nylon/carbonfibre injection in bulk.

The mags were lite, strong, and protected the bearings from dust and water, they also helped with primoslides, and protected the nuts. -- skating in the Nationals with them created alot of interest. I know skate stores that would buy them ... need an investor. The plastic injection is a few thousand dollars.

Below, the prototype and the final product (compressed images).

University of Waikato

Finished July 2021: software degree in programming (paper details in footer);

Toiohomai Institute of Technology

Game development certificates

The game certificates, were night classes on top of the university papers, consisting of different genres made in Unity. We documented and designed games. Bruce the teacher created an excellect course.