About Me (Why I rock)

A brief history of Chuck & tech

When I was a child I was obsessed with trains and vacuum cleaners. In elementary school my grandma tried to teach me Photoshop. In seventh grade I started teaching myself HTML. Freshman year I started learning the basics of networking and BASH so I could run a Minecraft server on my sparkly new iMac. In the first half of high school I volunteered at Phoenix Children's Hospital and in the second half I taught robotics at The Waybright Academy. On top of that, I was active throughout the school as an officer of Firebird Robotics, the director of Firebird Word, a yearbook editor, and the design editor of Chaparral Ashes. I've been digging around in computers my whole life.

My life today

I'm a Computer Science student and Hackathon winner at Arizona State University interested in the intersection of technology and art. I pride myself in taking a diverse set of interest and the resulting broad set of experiences. From editorial experience at the State Press to random open source contributions in my free time, I do a lot. Less formally, I moonlight as a freelance tech support, web designer, and occasionally pick up work as a photographer. Lately I've been spending a lot of time in JavaScript, but I've got a few interesting side projects on the back burner, including a SteamVR experiment.

Geeking out

Here come the brags that I couldn't fit anywhere else. This summer I worked at a Starbucks to save up money to build a new PC and buy an HTC Vive to go with it. My computer runs windows in a virtual machine on top of Slackware linux, a setup that causes me unending headaches but is actually a lot of fun to tinker with when I'm not busy with school.

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Projects & Experience

1st Place

Desert Hacks '17

Virtual Keyality

A VR typing game.

The idea started as something of a joke, but after prototyping we realized that we stumbled upon a killer feature: when you're wearing the headset, you can't see your keyboard.

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Tech Design Unity C# Virtual Reality SteamVR Hackathon projects

3rd Place

OHack '16

Volunteer Management Portal

A web app for nonprofits.

Opportunity Hack is a charity hackathon where hackers are paired with nonprofits to solve the real world problems they face. The Lost Our Home pet rescue needed a better way to track volunteers and encourage volunteers to keep coming back. Our solution revolved around easy to access scheduling and volunteer-hour leaderboards to encourage first time volunteers to return.