About
Background
Jeff has developed games and scientific visualization software in Unity since 2011. As co-developer of Science On A Sphere Explorer (TerraViz), he was a runner-up for a Unity award (Best VizSim Project) at Unite 2013 in Vancouver and runner-up for the Colorado 2017 Governor's Award for High-Impact Research. TerraViz runs on multiple displays and also on the Rift. Most recently Jeff co-developed Cloud Defense, a cyber security game (a bit like Tower Defense) in which the player creates cyber security defenses to thwart hackers, winner of the 2017 Serious Games Awards announced at the ITSEC conference in Orlando. Written in Unity/C# with backend web services in Java and MySQL.
He has taught classes in object-oriented design in Java for various organizations, given talks at numerous conferences, and created an introductory guide to Unity. He is also fluent in web frontends, mobile, and (Java) web services development.