Robyn Tong Gray
Education:
University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California
Masters of Interactive Media | Expected: May, 2014
Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Computer Science and Art | May, 2011
Cumulative GPA: 3.3/4.0 scale
Shaker High School | Latham, New York
Graduated a year early (Class of 2007) with Honors (top 5% of class)
Selected Coursework:
Building Virtual Worlds at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center (Fall, 2010)
Computational Photography (Spring, 2010)
Computer Graphics (Fall, 2009)
Game Design (Fall, 2009)
Animation Art and Technology (Spring, 2009)
Work Experience:
Art Intern at Evil Genius Design (Summer, 2009 - Spring, 2011) http://evilgeniusdesigns.com/
- Worked as one of two designers/artists on UI and aesthetic for client games
- Worked on product logo design
- Used computer science background to coordinate between artists and programmers
- Did some minor actionscript coding for Flash games and interfaces
Activities:
Dean's List, Spring 2010
Student Volunteer at SIGGRAPH, 2009 & 2010
ACM SIGGRAPH Member, 2009 - Present
Volunteer at the International Conference of Entertainment Computing (ICEC), 2008
CMU Carnival Publicity Committee (2008 - Present) http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/org/carnival/
- Assistant Publicity Chair (Fall, 2008 - Spring, 2009)
- Publicity Co-Chair (Fall, 2009 - Present)
- 2009 & 2010 Logo and Theming Design
-Organized merchandise sales and advertising for Carnival
Game Creation Society (Fall, 2008 - Spring 2009) http://www.gamecreation.org/
- Project Origami - UI design and story development
Skills:
Languages: ActionScript 3, Java, HTML, CSS, Shell Scripting, C, Perl, and C++ (openGL)
Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft Office, Final Cut, Logic, DVD Studio, Maya
Projects:
- Flash animations, games, and digital art
- Graphic design work for Spring Carnival and Project Origami
-Building Virtual Worlds interactive experiences on a variety of platforms
- Game UI, designs, and assets for Evil Genius Designs clients
- Webpage design and creation, including personal webpage
Portfolio:
Viewable here.
