Summary: Graduate-level work in computer software and robotics including professional software development for games and cloud computing, advanced autonomous robotics, and game AI.
| 2011 | Represented American High School at 11th annual Silicon Valley StRUT competition, which consists of a computer build and presentation, a network troubleshooting scenario, and a written exam. My team finished 4th out of 21 teams, the highest ranking of teams from my school. |
| 2010-2011 | Programming an advanced autonomous robot PR Lite to be a low-end PR2 running ROS (Robot Operating System). PR2 robots cost $400,000 and Willow Garage's PR2 Beta Program Recipients include MIT, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and USC. PR Lite was featured on the Willow Garage blog. |
| 2010 | Programmed the Flash game Momentum Master II and the World Wide Web, which has a paid sponsorship to Max Games. <http://maxgames.com/play/momentum-master-2.html> |
| 2010 | Summer internship for the cloud computing company Power-All Networks. Integrated backup program with the Hadoop Distributed File System. |
| 2010 | Represented American High School at 10th annual Silicon Valley StRUT competition, which consists of a computer build and presentation, a network troubleshooting scenario, and a written exam. My team finished 4th out of 38 teams, the highest ranking of teams from my school. |
| 2009-2011 | President of American High School Robotics Club, which won the gold medal in the Table Top Navigation and Jr League Lego Open competitions at RoboGames 2010, entered the Robofest competition in 2010, and hosted and won a Robofest qualifying competition in 2011. |
| 2009-2010 | Programmed high-level code of Myrmecophaga tridactyla RoboMagellan competition entry in C on Linux. The autonomous robot won the silver medal at RoboGames 2010 and was demoed at Maker Faire, RoboGames 2009, and the 6/24/2009 HomeBrew Robotics Club meeting. Finished second behind UCLA but ahead of entries from UCSD, the University of Akron, and a Willow Garage robotics intern. RoboMagellan is the most advanced autonomous robot competition at RoboGames, and it is modeled on the DARPA Grand Challenge which included entries from Stanford, CMU, MIT, UCLA, and CIT. |
| 2009 | Programmed the Flash game Momentum Master, which was auctioned through Flash Game License, sponsored to Max Games, and distributed to many game portals. As of 2/10/2010, it had over 2 million plays on Max Games, Armor Games, and Addicting Games. <http://maxgames.com/play/momentum-master.html> |
| 2009 | Programmed American High School Robotics Club's Robofest competition entry in Interactive C. |
| 2008-2009 | Attended Stanford ESP classes in fall 2008 and spring 2009. |
| 2007-2010 | Created Afdarts, an open source 3D real-time strategy game with over 8,000 lines of code written in Visual Basic using DirectX, demoed at Maker Faire and RoboGames and downloadable at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/downinga-rts>. |
| 2008 | Won the game 4 category of the University of Alberta's ORTS game AI competition. (C++) |
| 2008 | JavaScript engine for <http://andrewd.50webs.com> which preloads page content using XMLHttpRequest and has a full page preview feature. |
| 2007 | Attended a SEMI High Tech U class at Applied Materials/Intel, Santa Clara, CA. |
| 2006 | Created ShootCity, an open source side-scrolling shooter game written in Visual Basic using DirectX, downloadable at <http://sourceforge.net/projects/shootcity>. |
| 2006 | Entered the 4th annual HomeBrew Robotics Club challenge phase 1, covered in Servo Magazine. |
| 2005 | Created the short movie My Twin's a Giant, which includes a green screen at 2:13 and original music at 2:39. |
| 2005 | Most Creative Musician Award - Forest Park School Band. |
| 2004 | Attended a robotics and C++ programming class at iD Tech Camps. |
| 2004 | Helped build a pneumatic flipbot at a College of San Mateo robot building class. The robot has competed semiannually at a family combat robot competition. |
| 1999-2005 | Forest Park School variety show stage magic. |
| 2003 | Bay Area Tamil Manram Chess Clinic by Manuel Aaron (only student to play one of top 3 games against chessmaster). |
