Themed Entertainment Engineer
-Experience Design-
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Curtain Call - Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama Client Project
August 2023 - December 2023
A client project with the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama to design, install, run, and strike an interactive and immersive theater lobby installation
Client Work | Concept Design | Experience Design | Installation | Lighting Design | Rapid Prototyping
Five Nights at Freddy's -
The Dark Ride
A 4D Dark Ride based on the "Five Nights at Freddy's" IP in a CAVE environment with a pneumatic actuated motion base floor and other immersive technologies
Concept Design | Experience Design | Lighting Design
Peek-A-Boo
Projection Mapping
October 2023
A 10-minute projection mapping show for a haunted house
Experience Design |
Tomb Lighting
September 2023
A lighting design personal project designed to fit an ancient Egyptian tomb themed show set and an audio track
Experience Design | Lighting Design
Happily Ever After
A projection mapping personal project inspired by Happily Ever After at Walt Disney World
StoryStudio - Children's Museum of Pittsburgh Client Project
January 2023 - May 2023
A client project with the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh in R&D for live interactive storytelling events for
50-100 people at once
Client Work | Concept Design |
Rapid Prototyping | Robotics
Pausch Bridge Lighting
March 2023 - April 2023
A 15-minute light show inspired by the film Inside Out displayed on the Randy Pausch Memorial Bridge at Carnegie Mellon University
Concept Design |
Astronomy Carnival Booth
February 2023 - April 2023
A "Cool Exoplanets!" themed carnival booth created with Carnegie Mellon University's astronomy club for the Carnegie Mellon University Spring Carnival
Concept Design | Construction |
Experience Design
Escape from Wonderland
November 2022 - April 2023
An Alice in Wonderland themed escape room created with Carnegie Mellon University's Theme Park Engineering Group for the Carnegie Mellon University Spring Carnival
Puzzle Creation | Rapid Prototyping
Christmas Chaos
November 2022 - December 2022
A Christmas themed cooperative/competitive game for four players using Jamodrum technology where guests deliver presents and attempt to avoid obstacles
Rapid Prototyping | 2D Art
The Christmas Miracle
October 2022 - December 2022
A side-scrolling 2D pixel art and Makey Makey electronics game where guests play as a raccoon on a mission to help their pregnant wife find a blanket on Christmas
Rapid Prototyping
Ghostbuster 2022
September 2022 - October 2022
An AR experience where the guest uses a physical vacuum prop to suck up the ghosts of abandoned game ideas and save the school
Experience Design | Producing | Rapid Prototyping
Level99
January 2019, June-August 2019, June-August 2022
A Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) Thea Award-winning 48,000+ square foot challenge-based entertainment venue in Natick, Massachusetts with over 40 different games and challenges for adults
Mechanical Repair |
I Ching Split-Flap Display
February 2022 - May 2022
My senior mechanical engineering thesis at MIT - CAD for a device that combined rotational split-flap kinematics with ancient I Ching divination
CAD | Concept Design |
Innoquest
January 2022 - April 2022
A 5-story immersive experience in MIT's Innovation Headquarters (iHQ) that introduced small groups to innovation and entrepreneurship through a series of games and challenges
Next Haunt
June 2020 - November 2021
An annual Halloween haunted house/escape room
Concept Design | Construction | Experience Design | Puzzle Creation
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