Who is Brian Cullinan?

Brian Cullinan

12205 Rustler Rd
Flagstaff, Arizona 86004
bjcullinan@gmail.com
+1 (480) 466-0856

Citizenship: Yes
Special Hiring Authority: Person with Disability
Federal Experience: None (on-going?)
Clearance: Level 0 (internet?)

OBJECTIVE: To obtain a full time position in public service with the FBI as a residential field agent.

SKILLS SUMMARY: Fast context switching, easy to focus, quick learning individual. Over 24 years of programming experience in Computer Science, computer programming, web technologies, user-experience development, and data managements. Over 10 years of multi-cultural study, philosophy, cognative bias, psychology, and theology. Multi-lingual with extensive understanding of the English language, and a basic understanding of Polish (Mandarin and Arabic pending). Deployed multiple business ventures complete with monetization on cloud platforms, as well as self-hosted, on premise solutions. I am driven, highly trained, technologist and contradictarian, with an emphasis on compassion and empathy towards others.

• In my role as a Software Engineer for a start-up medical company, EPIC Research and Diagnostics, I exercised the full extent of my Computer Science expertise. During my tenure I was involved in computer programming a medical kiosk, this simplified the workflow and necessary security components by heavily restricting access to internal systems on the Windows based workstation accompanying the medical scanning device. This was a homebrew user-experience that tailored low-level Windows API function calls, as well as Group Policy to prevent tampering, misuse, and common web-browsing security flaws throught the clinical trial.
• As a technologist Using MatLab native compilation, linear regression, and kirlian imaging, I spent months studying and rewriting the entire software platform. I was able to reduce image processing time from 10 minutes to only 10 milliseconds per image. That is a 6,000% performance improvement over the previous version. The improved platform was fast enough to run on video image capture from the device. In regard to data management in no small part, the performance was improved by systematically redesigning the database model to use "near" 3rd-Normal form.
• In additional to these major business goals, I developed, along-side another colleague, an on premise internet-based solution for a personal "cloud" service that communicated locally with many connected client across multiple physical hospital locations. Doctors would be able to communicate test results as they work from different locations in town through the web based (web technologies) service (Microsoft MVC). This inspired my propensity for medicine and full-body health and continued research in the field.

• With a development mindset towards body and health, I turned my focus, skill and study to the mind itself. A former Marine approached me with an idea to improve studying for college students. Over the course of 3 years, we designed and developed 3 individual products and user expereiences with modern web technologies. We used Drupal and Symphony to create an entire course based on study techniques students could implement to improve memory retention.
• Throughout working on the platform, I also benefitted from the lessons. I learned how to remove distractions from my environment and to vary my location while studying to expand associative memory. I also learned interleaving study, which is studying different topics in seqence to improve memory retention.
• I helped monetize the platform by configuring and implementing the proper server transactional API calls to Authorize.NET. This non-trivial process includes properly configuring server architecture to adhere to PCI-DSS (Payment card industry, data security standards). Even though our server was designed NOT to store customer information, we felt it was important to secure any association with student names and study data.
• I have adopted a mode of teaching to learn, which states that in order to fully understand a subject, a person should be able to teach it. I intend to apply this to all facets of my career. I also learned a mode of study popular in the medical field know as spaced repitition. This was the focus of our third application, an iOS and web-based app that implemented flash cards at specifically timed intervals. The outcome is that by studying flash cards that we not remembered more frequently, after a month of study the information can be actively recalled (i.e. the testing effect) from memory.

• To further my studies, I spent a significate amount of time learning and recognizing over 200 cognative biases. In order to understand my own mental development, I explored mythology from the 5 major world religions. In order to understand the effect of religion on culture, I studies cultural norms such as whether it is appropriate to be late for a meeting, or whether I should repair an old toy versus throw it away and buy a new one. I extended this study into cooking and attempted to make dishes from major cultures around the world.
• With a basic Sumarian level understanding of moral law, I turned my focus the abuses and self-abuses of modern law. It became clear to that Americans are not willing to extract any measurable utility from my own mind and I would have to work alone. In my investigation I studied anti-social behavior laws as it relates to attempted mitigation through shadow banning on social media platforms. It was my intention to philosophically prove the same feature-set exposed by the darkweb, spreading manipulation and lies through the use of automation tools. These abuses finally appeared as the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and I had proven to myself and my colleagues how easy it was to betray people's trust, in my own small way. I asked multiple friends to "send compliments" to the same person, automatically using the "Like"-button on thousands of posts, automatically inviting people to charitable causes, and finally, scraping private message history from Facebook.
• Further investigation in to companies, I uncovered more rule breakers. Corruption from greed in public sector was the megalomaniac version of small-business corruption. It appeared to me that nobody felt obligated to follow the established rules. These abuses were mostly in regard to data-privacy and data-integrity laws. Software companies that actively work against their customers / client to "double dip" in the free capitalist market. Selling personal data, manufacturing false documentation, falsifying records, pay-walls, data "lockout", extortion, lying by ommission, gross negligence, health code violations, identity theft, systemic racism in the workplace / State level, dismantling of homestead laws, were a few "close encounters" with Justice. Unfortunately many of these are still unmitigated. The struggle is real, indeed.
• As a residential host to nurses, foreign travelers, and local people, I learned acceptance, tolerance, patience. I worked to overturn a living space in under 20 minutes, dining etiqette, and learned about many different cultures from visitors. I learned landording laws, but more importantly, I learned stewardship, as I tried to make my humble little plot profitable. I learned horticulture as it applied to growing food in a garden and transforming sand in to soil through composting.
• I created a lush garden in the desert that had no problem withstanding the hot Arizona summers. I studied municipal doctrine as it related to home ownership, and I documented minor failures of this society such as personal theft, noise ordinance, traffic and commercial influence as the neighborhood grew around me.
• I also documented the technological advancements I observed such as implementing street cameras at numerous intersections, implementing wireless technology for monitoring sewage and gray water storage, traffic monitoring systems installed at night across the road, and even the advancement of Gigabit fiber.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Sitewat.ch
Front-end Developer
$10,000 over 1.5 years

As a Front-end developer at Sitewat.ch I implemented various interfaces for use with a web-security scanning tool similar to pentest-tools.com required by Authorize.NET. I implemented web-safe standards according to Owasp.org, and presented customers with a unified user experience for viewing possible vunerabilities in their platform. My employer applied for many CVEs and credited all three team-mates on Google Security Hall-of-Fame.

• Implemented a front-end interface for customers following Owasp guidelines such as safely escaping "sinks", anywhere in the application that a "user input" such as profile fields, or parts of the URL are inserted by into the page for user feedback. This would prevent a user from sending a forged (XSRF) link meant to trick the user into clicking on something malicious (XSS).
• Participated in a DEFCON presentation of the effort, website vulnerability testing as a service using Nexus, and the individual contributions of my employer to the field. Revealing dozens of new exploits, and existing vulnerabilities on major public service platforms.
• Used modern (at the time) design principals such as responsiveness such as resizing elements on the page for different devices and high contrast. Implemented Accessibility features, such as using alt-tags to describe content for screen readers, tab-indexes, i18t internationalization for over 50 languages. Authentication features such as OAuth and HTTPS for secure login.

EPIC Research & Diagnostics
Software Engineer & Network Administrator
$200,000 over 2.5 years

As a software engineer for a start-up medical company, I was required to "wear multiple hats". This meant including myself in business planning meetings, financial discussions, option vesting, military contract proposals, FDA DNVO submissions, data integrity, formal process improvement.

I started by creating a data entry database to migrate written records to digital form using Microsoft SQL server for storage and querying. Data was entered by workers from a temp-hiring agency, so I provided basic level technical support, any time there was confusion for a field, basic training, and user account creation through >Active Directory (Microsoft LDAP).

I wrote a kiosk to use along side the medical device to minimize network risk and simplify workflow for hospital technicians.

I implemented a Windows Business Server, complete with Exchange, networked file access, file-system revision history, RAID mirroring, Exchange email, Active Directory, Group Policy coinciding with a network policy that adheres to CFR 21 Part 11, general ITSM support, rackmounted servers for job processing and on-premise "cloud"-like virtual machines with Hyper-V, Microsoft SQL Server Finally, a colleague and I implement a "cloud"-like medical data record server in Microsoft MVC (a successor to Master pages). This service assigned a geographic location to each medical device in the field, and synchronized data between the client facing kiosk and the on-premise backend. The web-based system also presented doctors with a portal to log in and review patient records remotely.

Patient records were displayed similar to the kiosk. At that time, I decided it would be a huge benefit to the business to rewrite the client software using Window Presentation Foundation controls and remove some of the 3rd party libraries. I was also able to reduce the processing time from 10 minutes to 10 seconds, and process videographic snapshots of the patient scan. I wrote an automated validation process that tested the same images with old and new versions of the client software. I used Selenium to validate the user experience of the front-end web interface.

• Participated in business development and directional meetings such as applying for FDA approval using the DNVO process with a precusor device called the Asira, which uses electrodes to communicate mitochondrial stresses on the body.
• Implemented an unmaximised Small Business Server with Microsoft Exchange to minimize hosting costs and secure intellectual property. Configured Active Directory and Group Policy to provide ubiquitous file-system revision history across all connected systems.
• Wrote a kiosk explorer shell to minimize security risk and simplify workflow for device technicians in the hospitals the company contracted with. Developed an automated and manual formal test process for validating the new platform.
• Rewrote the main client application directly connected to the device, and assisted in writing web-based medical record service for doctors to view patient information. Used Selenium for automated testing and validation.

Study Sauce
Principal Engineer
$300,000 over 3 years

During my tenure, the owner and I designed and developer 3 unique platforms. The first platform was primarily a marketing and sales front-end to test the target market for the minimally viable product. Students would enter an individual, authenticated interface and enter their class schedule. When finished, we converted their schedule to a comprehensive week plan complete with when they should study each topic. This was to demonstrate and teach the student about time / work / study management, and encourage interleaving.

The second product expanded on the studying idea by making the class schedule the first step in an online learning course. The course had 15 individual lessons, each lesson used gamification by providing a video tutorial, asking a few simple quiz questions, and then giving the student a badge reward. This was meant to incentivize the student to come back and complete future lessons. We also implemented A/B marketing using Google marketing goals. This presented a specific percent of our traffic with two different landing pages based on the concept we were testing.

The third product was an spaced-repitition system. "[We wanted to make somethig fun]". This was an app that worked natively on iOS and had a matching web-based user experience. The app kept track of progress and then synchronized with the backend service for persistent database storage. The web-based administration offered teachers a way to change content that was then synchronized to every student using the app client. Spaced-repitition is a technique Jeopardy players and medical students alike use to memorize a lot of content about a subject. It works by presenting the entire set of information on the first day of use, then only presenting wrongly answered flash cards on the subsequent days of use.

That is, if a card is answered incorrectly, it's presented the next day, if the answer is correct, the next day is skipped and it is reviewed 2 days later, if it is answered correctly again, it isn't presented until day 5, day 10, day 20, day 30, and so on. By spacing out when the correct information is reviewed and increasing the freqeuncy for incorrect answer, this improve memory retention and the ability to recall the correct answer quickly.

• Built a minimal viable product (MVP) using the Drupal platform. Created A/B marketing pages to cater to our target market. Organized student schedules into a weekly plan in PDF format. Self-hosted website running on a personal Linux (LAMP) server.
• Built a learning course using Symphony. Built 15 individual lessons using gamification reward system to keep students interested. Built 6 different tools to get students to think long-term about goals and short term organization in their weekly schedule. Integrated the weekly schedule with Google Calendar API.
• Built a spaced-repitition quiz app for memorization and active recall learning. Imported dozens of lesson plans coiciding with elementary learning from BASIS schools. Imported a learning set for the US Citizenship Test, requiring a basic understanding on American history.
• Simultaneously devepoled an iOS app and web-based user experience to make better use of Apple's iOS store marketing pipeline. Connected in app content to Authorize.NET to monetize learning content. This was intended to by a selling point for B2B (business-to-business) contracts.

Charles Schwab
Software Engineer
$60,000 over 4 months

In a short sprint at this company, I began to observe oddities of corporate behavior. In between being nagged by my freshly assigned project manager over elusive "employee training", and other managers about "what firm do your represent?", I investigated the company's corporate structure. Their internet "social network" was anything but social, built on Microsoft Sharepoint.

Internally, attitudes we moot, people came to work, kept to themselves, formed alliances with people who spoke the same language. The building was structured more like a money-data vault with very little sunlight. The basement floor I was assigned to was full of anti-social contractors. Champagne Charlie could afford to keep me around but I was let go for my "attitude".

While trying to rationalize why such a significant company would intentionally "Manage me out" (yes, this is a real strategy), I had my first experience with Toast-masters. This seems like a great way for employees to get to know one another, and learn about public speaking. Charle's Schwab apparently offered "learning tracks" to their employees and would sponsor testing and certifications. In particular a track to becoming an ITSM "security manager" with zero coding experience.

One of the more exciting events was a "Kaizen" workshop formed for employees. This was a good way to introduce continuous integration style practices, in a formalized way, to people who haven't studied Agile and require lots of structure. Tried not to take offense when another employee passive-agressively expressed that I "needed to get up to speed". Out of this meeting, my team was inspired to brainstorm ways their project applies to business needs. This was great because I had a lot of experience brainstorming outside of the basement, but all ideas during the session were still confined to a very small box in the form of a window-less conference room.

• Learned the corporate structure through a Microsoft Sharepoint based social networking application. Helped managers identify "key stake-holders" for supporting our project's effort. Integrated with "big personalities" by being friendly and trying not to pry into previous experiences.
• Realized one of the major reasons their simple project, "remove secondary access to databases through an internet request tool" was so difficult to accomplish because they insisted on using Rational Unified Process. Charles Schwab heavily relies on IBM and RUP is an IBM product.
• Tried to navigate "big personalities" from a tremendous project manager as I asked to help with timeline goals. Tried to retrain my managers to approach RUP holistically, that is, all documentation should have been developed simultaneously, rather than sequentially. The methodology in RUP doesn't make this clear, but drawing from past miseries using the process at the medical company, I saw this as a major failure point.
• Failed to communicate the importance of brainstorming topics and diversifying your environment as a means to creatively solving a problem. Introduced managers to a document control system (DCS). Configured a Microsoft Sharepoint site to link to "artifacts" within the DCS.
• By the end of the experience I had realized I was being intentionally ignored as a part of an external growth process. Thank you to Charles Schwab for being large enough to bank-roll my failures. I was also emotionally detached when I realized an 80 year old mainframer came to work with an eye infection instead of taking care of herself and retiring (since she worked for a retirement company), I viewed this as flagrantly hypocritical and sad.

Swiftpage
Senior Software Engineer
$100,000 over 14 months

The same day of my release from my previous company, I was invited to interview at a small-business marketing company. This was particularly interesting because my father's manufacturing company is a client. I saw this as both a way to better understand marketing, and even improve upon a product his company relied on. With his advice to "work for a small-business", I was excited to contribute.

During my tenure, realizing my propensity for quelling disorderly behavior, I was as minimally disorderly as possible. I tested networking features by using reddit.com/NSFW from the bathroom. They did indeed implement a censhorship system on their internet connection, the results were abstract to me, something I'd like to see changed for remote-workers and personal-accountability.

Human Resources implemented a policy for "unlimited paid-time-off". This is a psychological trick to get people to take less time off, feeling like it's always there when they need it. I worked an entire year, about 3,500 hours learning NodeJS without taking a single day off, even during the Christmas holiday when most of the office was empty. Ironically, when I first entered the company, a woman was begging for time off over conference calls. This is a failing policy and people should be compensated fairly for their time.

The development process consisted of employees trying to avoid an antiquated megolith written with overly burdened state-management design principals ("feature completness", see Microsoft Code-Complete). When a change was integrated the system would need to be update after work hours on Wednesday nights. If the change caused a failure in the test-automation suite that was both precious and lacking "integration tests" the entire change would be rolled back and attempted again the next night. It was the absolute worse possible method of avoiding continuous integration (in software, solutions were widely available from major distributors). The company offered a "learning track" and modes for self-improvement and even made their Job description sound like they would pay for, or contribute to my education. At one point LinkedIn Learning was advertised to employees in the office, and they offered sponsorship. I spent the entire month programming on the work project, and using my secondary monitor to absorb programing and management courses on LinkedIn. When the month trial period expired, LinkedIn Learning billed my personal account instead of the business account I had joined through.

Eventually, the work became too much, when I witnessed other managers in the office yelling at my boss to change the pricing model to perpetuate the multi-level marketing sales. I offered to take my boss to lunch after he told me that "the company has high expectations of me" without formalizing or writing those expectations down. Employee reviews were conducted through ADP, at the beginning of the year he asked me for "what goals I would like to accomplish". These goals were never readdressed, and at the end of the year, the goals my boss wrote into ADP had nothing to do with the goals I sent him at the beginning of the year. My boss criticized my in front of other employees in addition to the criticism in our monthly one-on-one meetings. I had enough, I was being "Managed out".

• Built a marketing front end that integrates with Zuora (the billing platform like Authorize.NET). Used Angular JS to create a new login form, account settings, buy funnel, billing statement (PDF generated by Zuora), and itemized purchase page.
• Integrated Zuora with Eloqua, an enterprise email marketing solution from Oracle (similar to SendGrid). Failed to explain to my boss Amazon AWS doesn't support C# unless it is built on .NET Core and would require a rewrite of the entire platform. Lost a month of effort and switched to NodeJS which was much more widely support on AWS. Used API calles of both Zuora and Eloqua to create a micro-service, or serverless function (not sure of the correct name, lots of terminology was being thrown around at the time)
• Formed alliances with the marketing team that was competing for the same ownership over the product sales feature of the customer facing website. Validated and automated a manual process costing the company no less that $10,000 per year. It felt awkward to change teams within the same company, so I didn't apply for alternative roles they advertised even thought they matched my skill-set.
• Realized I was being Managed out when my boss told me the effort working with multiple marketing managers to automate and validated a manual billing process was "a waste". I saw the effort as a simple equation, if a company spends $10,000 per year on a manual process, and pays me to automate the process, it is somewhere between 1 - 2 years of operating automatically before they save and repurpose the money that would have been spent on manual labor. The employees involved we all ecstatic to never have to do this again, but my boss couldn't be concinved.
• For the first time in my life, I felt I needed to take control of my life, instead of just taking things as they come. I quit. It was obvious people didn't want to communicate with me decently.

Sabbatical
Indentured Servitude
$60,000 over 2 years

Realizing my mind wasn't fit for corporate or the small-business world, I turned my study to something more philosphical. I tried to get to know people through hosting. I applied for a job in San Franscisco with digit.co. I realized quickly the financial sector would not be kind to me.

I left the US for 3 months to live in Poland. I cashed out all my credit cards. I learned what it meant to live with a packed suitcase. I studied philosophy, The Bible, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and spiritual religions. I navigated a foriegn country with my wife, I was amazed by how things had progressed having not been to Europe for 10 years. Internet was widely available, dozens of American services like Uber and Airbnb were widely available. I was amazed that censorship of American TV programs was still common practice. Despite being an America and paying for HBO, I wasn't allowed to watch the same HBO programs in Europe.

I became a father in Poland after American doctors told my wife that she would have a natural birth if they decided that was the safest method of delivery. I saw a pattern of abuse of authority when doctors now promote cesarean surgeries. They can collect more money from insurance companies, not because the recovery or delivery is safer. Doctors told my wife that "In America the doctor decides what is best for you, and if you don't like it you can go back to Poland." after she requested an episiotomy. Doctors in America don't practice medicine once they leave college and get to a specific level of authority.

I Poland we enjoyed many beautiful gardens. My wife enjoyed speaking her native language and I enjoyed learning it. She taught me about history, and I realized I could stand on a side-walk that was older than all of United States history. I was catered to at hospitals. I walked in one day with a kidney pain and was able to talk to a doctor immediately, they prescribed a rosemary oil based medicine and I didn't owe thousands or even hundreds of dollars for the visit.

The doctors treated my wife with respect. They didn't question where she came from, they did ask why she came to Poland and we explained how doctors have no problem betraying people's trust in American medicine. The hospital refunded the money we spent on consultations we had before paying for a birthing package. This was absolutely astounding compared to Phoenix, Arizona doctors that wanted nearly $20,000 up-front with no refunds should something happen, that price does not include the hospital bill. We were able to pay for child delivery out of pocket.

Airline companies act differently in Europe, almost like they want people to travel easily. The only difficulty was in Sweden when they required we come to the airport 4 hours ahead of time with a printed copy of our baording pass, the charged a $40 fine for printing out my ticket and being late after my wife argued with them not to cancel our flight. This was a flagrant abuse of power and the women behind us was not so lucky, they cancelled her flight. We flew Nordic Airlines before it was renamed to Norse Atlantic because of American politics not being able to compete with a government that subsidized flights thanks to being a large oil-refining country.

We encountered systemic "dragging of feet" visiting government offices and nagivating paperwork. We completed a Consulary Report of Birth Abroad, and gained United States and Polish citizenship (dual-citizenship) for our first born son within the month following his birth. I realized in the hospital that I'm living in a time period where circumcision could be considered a "form of abuse", this weighed on me heavily, but ultimately after researching the genitals couldn't be cleaned until 3 years of age, we decided to circumcise. This was an "uncommon request" hospital staff explained, but they were able to source a female Jewish surgeon from New York. I'm amazed at how perfectly well our trip went despite politics making it appear as though The Old World is behind America technologically. American doctors, unfamiliar with Noam Chomsky's opinions on American Exceptionalism, explained to us that America is the best place in the world for medicine. I've laid this false information to rest, it is banter and nothing more, people are mostly the same everywhere, some ambitious and educated, some lazy and avoiding work, and some happy to do food deliveries with American software platforms.

• Discovered Poland an amazing American and Schengen ally. Practiced the Polish language I learned through Duolingo. Consulted with doctors on child birth. Confronted government paperwork with agility and punctuality. Avoided having my marraige certificate stolen from me with a side note of casual rascism directed at my wife, stemming from Jewish inheritance. Lived happily, and nearly applied for a job setting up rseidential A/V home automation equipment in Wilonow, a suburb of Warschawa.
• Learned about child birth, episiotomy, and catering to a new-born and a wounded wife. Thanks to the surgical precision of the episiotomy my wife was able to heal and nearly stop bleeding after only 3 days of discomfort. She had her "disolvable" stitches removed after 3 days because they poked her and the bleeding already stopped. I cooked for her every day in a small apartment loft booked through Airbnb.
• Navigated government offices and paperwork to complete applications for a United States and Polish citizenship. Gained dual-citizenship for our son, and felt a great reward from having the Consular Report of Birth Abroad. Felt like a diplomat visting multiple government offices. In Poland, asking a government worker to do work felt more like asking for a favor, where in America paying a fee feels more like an expectation that work will get done.
• Visited gardens and absorbed Polish history through visiting old shops, and castles downtown. Relearned how to enjoy people. Learned about cooking and philosophy. Learned about religion and politics as "Seperation of Church and State" is an American ideal. In Poland, government offices are heavily influence by Cathoicism, and that affects policies like abortion being illegal (2022 in Arizona this seems relevant). In American politics, seperation of church and state is an "ideal", ideal means ideally, politics are fair for all beliefs, but that isn't always how law turns out in practice.
• Realizing this distinction, I turned my foundational knowledge of religion towards to law. I tried to search for philosophical dichotomies where the law doesn't match "ideal" situations, where the law has a short-coming of morality. Personally, I wanted to understand my own experience with the law as it related to being lied to over a Solar leasing program from Tesla (then SolarCity owned by Elon Musk's brother in law).

idTech 3 Game Engine
Game Engine Developer
$60,000 over 2 years

When I first approached this game-engine, I intended to improve the loading experience of QuakeJS. QuakeJS is a Web Assembly / emscripten port of Quake 3 to the web-browser. The loading process took about 10 minutes over cellular network, and desktop was not much better. It first loads the Trial Demo content, about 300 MBs of data. Then it loads additional game data to run custom levels ("maps" as they are called in game).

My approach was to minimize the number of line changes stylistically. That is, rather than moving and renaming functions, I would use a pre-compiler macro to create the necessary logical breaks in the function, then call the new broken up function in the same sequence that QuakeJS did. Since I already had a working implementation, it was easy for me to see if my change caused a breaking error, or if it was indeed calling the function just like the original port, only with less code changes.

Once completed with the code changes, I iterated on development trying to find the most burdensome pieces of code. i.e. The parts that added the most complexity through new variables, lots of line changes, bug reports,etc. One of the biggest hurdles was this idea of a file manifest.json. This was hard to create, and people ran into errors trying to generate additional content through the repack.js script. The author's intention was to repackage game assets to be smaller and compatible with web. I reapproached this issue 3 times during my development.

Once I had a solid foundation and a working Web Assembly build, I attempted to distill out of emscripten only the system-level APIs that it required to run this particular engine. I expected to double the performance, and that's exactly what came from the effort. By removing the complexity implemented by emscripten's burdensome file-system APIs, extra work being done by the GL emulator, and memory leaking from Audio spatialization with SDL2, I was able to double the performance. Maps that used to only run well at 30 frames per second (FPS) could now run at 60FPS and in-general I could run the engine at over 200 FPS inside the browser window.

I then turned my focus to game developement, I wanted to implement a Portal system similar to prioprietary closed-source forks. I was able to adapt some of the code left-over from the original game that was left unused in the source code. I copied some of the models from another Portal implementation and implemented the missing functionality to display droppable portal or wall mounted portals like the game Portal from Valve. This was an interesting project because it required a fairly in depth understanding of renderer code and limitations enforced from legacy systems.

I realized this work was much too fun for one person and I reached out to other community leaders like to owner of lvlworld.com with an idea to present all the lvlworld maps in 3D as a fun exploration tool for visitors. He loved the idea and eventually rewrote my entire effort to his own accord. I felt terrible about not being able to support the website anymore, but ultimately it felt like a win having another proprietary, closed source implementation as a good learning experience for the owner, Tig.

• Taught myself the C, C++, Web Assembly, and emscripten eco-system based on examplary work from inolen and QuakeJS. Learned to communicate with other community leaders. Learned there is a heavy bias towards not violating GPL licenses with other GPL licenses. This is a huge roadblock for software, but I understand no one would agree with me. They just don't see discovery and learning as being more important than respecting propriety. The propietors of many engine forks don't feel the need to share their work with anyone.
• Learned to use Discord. Assisted in other people's discovery path by answering technical questions about the engine. Provided line-by-line demonstrations of how I might have solved a similar problem they are facing. Tried to built community membership by encouraging developers to explore a variety of communities as they search for answers to their design questions. For example, if one community already tackled display unicode, it's possible the licensing would allow them to reuse code for their own open-source implementation.
• Contributed to open-source projects and was a member of GitHub Arctic Vault. Eventually stopped working on the project entirely due to legal threats. I asked community members about licensing and they were disinterested at best. The understanding of legality was more important than the developmental outcome of my effort.
• Learned a lot about vector graphics, linear algebra, graphics hardware, 3D algorithms. Learned about my own mind and my ability to absorb knowledge and experience from working with other people. Learned to enjoy software development again, it felt like I was doing it for myself instead of being told to do it for someone else like in the corporate or small-business environment. Learned the process of learning is sometimes more important than the outcome
• Learned to use Twitch and Youtube live streaming. Learned to use Web Assembly in a vast array of projects, porting software to the web browser is very fascinating to me, even though it feels like propriatary close-source companies are trying to destroy the free and open web. Learned to filter out which parts of my experience are relevant, extreme, or unnecessary.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Learned about whole body health, and how mitochondrial stressors are represented by low-level light detection eminated from the body (Kirlian imaging). A previously thought psuedo-science has scientific backing when Eukyotes "powerhouse" the mitochondria is treated like a radio signal.
• Learned to expand my learning through better study methods. Iterating through study techniques every day to exercise my eididic memory. Continued my studies using the interleaving method so my mind never gets fixated on a single box for too long. Increasing blood-flow and brain activity by learning construction, physical exercise, and new techniques in software development.
• Improved my spiritual health by trying to reconcile religious beliefs with scientific possibilities through extensive study of multiple world religion. Began to understand the patterns how many beliefs are built on top of other beliefs. Development a constradictarian mindset by question the belief systmes of colleagues that only focus on their own "1 true religion". Quelled my own personal philosphies in favor of philosphy learned versus philosphy implemented in my behavior.
• Learning game engine specifics like physics interactions with many entities, 3D geometric spaces, linear algebra, familiarity with floating point hardware (GPUs), graphics processing pipelines, Web Assembly, and the C, C++, Makefile eco-system.
• Read and familiarized myself with dozens of statutes including Arizona Landlord/Lesser laws, CPPA (California Privacy Act), GDPR (European General Data Protection Regulation), CFR 21 Part 11, PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standards), Title 47 (Federal Communication Regulation pending), Arizona Traffic Laws (in it's entirety), Arizona Property Statutes (Title 33), HIPAA, tax regulations, dozens of apriori relevant to main stream outcomes, dozens of encyclopedia entries related to law and regulation.
• Overcoming childhood trauma and prayer as a methodology for improving memory retention (in progress). Taking notes on oscillating thought every second. It appears that thinking about possibility or planning the future is the opposite of living in the moment. Possible expansion of intuition by oscillating between possibility and then focusing on the moment, blurring vision of current scenery, then focusing on nothing, even the word "nothing" in my mind to detach. Hard to oscillate at 60 BPM, might be the key to controlling theta waves. Putting slight pressure with my hand on the back of my head helps to clear thoughts, might help with motion sickness. Indictation not to pop my knuckles or crack my joints, conflict with chiropracty (in progress)?

COMPUTER SOFTWARE

• NodeJS - 10,000+ hours - Expert
• Linux, Windows, MacOS - 10,000+ hours - Expert
• C, C++, Makefile - 10,000+ hours - Expert
• PHP - 10,000+ hours - Expert
• English - 10,000+ hours - Expert
• Web-based UX design - 10,000+ hours - Expert
• Web-based Validation - 10,000+ hours - Expert
• Time Management - 10,000+ hours - Expert (just ask to see my calendar)
• Studying Demons - 10,000+ hours - Expert

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

• 120 hours of LinkedIn Learning Management Courses
• 10,000+ hours studying Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology (I'm like an encyclopedia of barely useful information)
• The full ET experience thanks to Nikola Tesla.

EDUCATION

BA - Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, 2010 (GPA 2.5)

HONORS AND AWARDS

None

VOLUNTEER WORK & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
IEEE - Institute of Electronics Engineers