{"id":407,"date":"2013-09-18T22:11:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T22:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scad.edu\/ascarb21\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2016-04-11T14:48:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T18:48:25","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/itgm-thesis.aliciascarborough.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thesis Website – itgm-thesis.aliciascarborough.com<\/a><\/small><\/h3>\n

A little about myself<\/h3>\n

My history with computers has started when I was young because my father was in the computer industry. He was always doing something with computers and taught all of his daughters how to use them at an early age. I would consider myself one of the privileged children for the reason that many of my peers did not have a computer in their household until much later.<\/p>\n

I remember the many hours when I would just play in the paint program painting with the spray brush to make space asteroids or a tree. That’s how the artistic part was satisfied on the computer. Now in regards to games the memory of the most simplistic ones that required reading strikes my mind. I recall the many hours as my sisters and I would crowd around the computer shrieking in fear and delight as the various monsters in the game called “Rogue” would kill our beloved hero. It wasn’t until later that we discovered that the name of the character determined the difficulty of the game. One my sisters named her hero “Fluffy” and was able to get pretty far into the game with no mishaps. Whereas my eldest sister named her hero after “Beowulf” and was met with several monsters in the starting room of the first level. My father noticed that we were getting keen to how the game’s AI was working and at that point he introduced us on how we could see HOW the game was composed by searching the contents of the game’s package on the drive. Now mind you this was the early stages in computers when the contents of games were not scrambled and allowed one to go in and explore what it had in store. My sisters and I were able to figure out how to beat the game by checking the game’s file contents. Yes, I realize that we were cheating at that point but you have to admit that it is pretty cool for kids during the 80s to do something like that on a computer. So, as the games became more complex then the less that we were able to cheat. It was at this point that my father introduced the King’s Quest Game to us all. We all loved this series and would spend countless hours playing to discover the story and the hidden treasures\/easter eggs.<\/p>\n

Later on in my teen years I was introduced to tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. it was at this time that I was earning my associates degree at Gwinnett Tech. One of my first visual basic programs was one for rolling dice. This was so I did not need to have 10 four sided dice in my dice bag. After that I went on to try and program a Dungeon Master Assistant program. I never did finish it and would love to do that eventually.<\/p>\n

With the story above you could only imagine why I had gone into the programming field and was later drawn to the Interactive Media\/Game field. I had originally wanted to be an animator because of my love for animation but the Art Institute nudged me to take the Interactive Media program instead because of my programming degree and computer background.<\/p>\n

So here I am… earning my masters… hopefully this course will help me come up with a solid thesis. The 45 hour review is making me nervous just reading about it… I always think that I am not ready and think that my work is not good enough. Maybe I am being too hard on myself. But having\u00a0 a critical eye is good to ensure that we don’t just settle for mediocre.<\/p>\n

Work Experience:<\/h3>\n

Product Engineer\u00a0–\u00a0360i<\/strong>
\nUtilizing\u00a0both of my skill sets of programming and creative work. Innovating ideas to help automate tedious tasks and to push the envelope further for the clients.<\/p>\n

Web Designer – Northrop Grumman<\/strong>
\nMy job as a web designer consists mainly of maintaining the current website and creating some print ads for the Emerging Infectious Disease journal’s journal. The timeline for the projects is not as demanding as the projects that Moxie had for my past job.<\/p>\n

Senior UI Developer – Moxie Interactive\/Moxie<\/strong>
\nWas hired on a month before I finished my BFA degree from the Art Institute of Atlanta as an intern for Moxie. When I graduated I was promoted to UI Developer. My work consisted of coding and maintaining emails, small web pages and banners in HTML or Flash. After three years I was then promoted to Senior UI Developer and continued to code emails, landing pages but was given more complex projects to work on. The timeline for these projects were brutal and required a quick turn around. Some projects required a massive site to be built within three days. After working seven years with Moxie it was time for me to seek a more creative position or a position that was closer to home due to family needs.<\/p>\n

Education:<\/h4>\n

MFA in Interactive Media and Game Development<\/strong> – Savannah College of Art (SCAD)<\/p>\n

BFA in Interactive Media Design<\/strong> – The Art Institute of Atlanta<\/p>\n

Associates in Computer Science (Computer Programming)<\/strong> – Gwinnett Technical College<\/p>\n

My Skills:<\/h4>\n

Developer<\/strong>
\n.NET, C#, Razor MVC3, jQuery and JQuery Mobile, JavaScript, GruntJS, Yeoman (scaffolding), AngularJS, HTML\/XHTML\/HTML5, LESS, SASS, CSS\/CSS3, PHP, Python, MySQL, WordPress, XML, Actionscript 2 & 3<\/p>\n

Designer<\/strong>
\nPhotoshop, Illustrator, Flash | Flex, InDesign, AfterEffects, Manga Studio Pro<\/p>\n

UX<\/strong>
\nAxure RP, Proto.io<\/p>\n

Websites:<\/h3>\n

Portfolio – portfolio.aliciascarborough.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Personal site – www.dragonrageseishi.com<\/a><\/p>\n

deviantArt – foxglove1028.deviantart.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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