Luke Fox Portfolio

foxyflow@contractor.net Preferred contact. Email for phone number: foxyflow@contractor.net

CV 2024 link: CV 2024

Currently working on a 2D Unity game

Created a Python game: youtube lessons

Purpose of portfolio: Display my software engineering traits and attributes to work with a team remotely or in-person.

Looking for: videogame industry work: Game tester or programming work.

Projects and Work

2024 Personal Project -- Using Unity to create a 2D puzzle game

2023 and 2024 Work -- Worked for Geeks on Wheels as an IT Technician and Consultant

2022 -- Worked for Tattoo World as a Blockchain Developer

2022 Contract Work: Created an NFT Marketplace to create and sell NFTs. I used JavaScript and Solidity for a small startup business.

End result: User could upload pics, connect to Metamask and check the files turned unique via Etherscan, they then could be sold.

2022 Worked for Manaaki: consulted with small businesses via recommending and demonstrating the latest online software to help grow their businesses.

2021: Taught Python on YouTube for people interested in programming, via a personalised 2D-game.

Experience

Projects

2024 -- current

IT Technician at Geeks on Wheels

2022 -- current

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

2020 -- 2021

Creating an MVC Object-Oriented 2D-game using Python, to teach the most common programming-language paradigms in the workplace.

Degree consisted of: Web development -- using ASP.NET C# or ReactJs, Node, REST, APIs, Http requests, JSON; with databases, PHP, SQL, WAMP, SQL Server, NoSQL, and Oracle.

Luke's Language Learning x2 apps

Using C# and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) to make a language learning interactive app. using OOP inheritance to practice abstract programming. Code/App on GitHub

(Screenshot looks cluttered, however, that's all classes running at once at the end of the game.)

Luke's Git Hub

via GIPHY

Using Unreal Engine to make a vertical slice of a language learning game.

Luke's Language Learning

2020

Luke's Ultimate Roll a Ball demo: Rollaverse

For more games please check out:

https://github.com/foxyflow/UnrealBlueprintGame
https://github.com/foxyflow/RPGUnityTopDown
https://github.com/foxyflow/Unity-Lukes-Awesome-Robotgame

2018 -- 2019

Web Development

Websites -- lots of CRUD OOP and MVC in a range of languages over the years

Created this Portfolio website and game using JavaScript and deployed using Git Pages.

Inventor of Skateboard Mags for skateboard wheels

Started a blog about Python game development ... needs work

Current Tertiary education

University of Waikato

Bachelor of Science: Applied Computing

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

August to end of 2021: Manaaki Digital Doer Internship -- 3 months.

Early 2022 to April: Software consulted for Manaaki -- 3 months.

April to current 2022: Contractor for Tattoo World -- Adding their work to a blockchain.

2020 -- 2021

Toiohomai Institute of Technology

2-year diploma in Software Development

2018 -- 2020

Former Tertiary education

University of Waikato

Post Graduate Education Certificate

2013 -- 2015

University of Victoria

Bachelor of Arts: Education

2010 -- 2012

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools

Workflow

Windows Forms, Responsive Design
Cross Browser Testing & Debugging
Cross Functional Teams
Agile Development Kanban & Scrum

Interests

Interested in 3D game development over the web, playing guitar, art, skateboarding, and exploring with my partner.

I enjoy being social, working with a team; or working on my own.

Awards & Certifications

Nelson School of Music.
Teacher Aide.
Currently while applying for the job -- Small course certificates from Linked IN, Udemy, and Codecademy. Achievements: Project Management^. PHP^. C++.