Jarryd Huntley is a game developer based out of Cleveland, Ohio. He co-authored the book Game Programming for Artists.
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Aaron Allen is a Shawnee State University League of Legends captain and School representative. He is a National Student Representative for NACE.
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Jonathan Reynolds is an XR Simulation Developer working for Aptima Inc. He has experience working in the Serious Game industry for about 2 years and has experience working for NASA on MRET (Mixed Reality Engineering Toolkit).
Read MoreRus May has taught math and computer science at Morehead State University since 2001.
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Joe Harless spent over a decade as a professional hacker finding previously unknown software security bugs and flaws of companies ranging from large multinational supply chain companies, to well-known financial institutions, to companies whose products have made them household names.
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Originally from Taylorsville, North Carolina, Doug Chatham received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2000 and has been on the mathematics faculty of Morehead State University since 2001.
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Saritdikhun Somasa (Sarit) has three degrees in Art Education, a BFA In Visual Design, and an MFA in Multimedia Design.
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Gregory Marlow is an assistant professor at East Tennessee State University and has worked in the animation and video game industry for over thirteen years.
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Cristina “Trinity” Vélez-Justo (they/she) is a public speaker and educator, and an award-winning composer for film and media through her business ReelScoring, LLC.
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Long-time game enthusiast Tony Justo, with a BS in Computer Science, has spent over a decade working for corporations of various sizes, honing his craft in software development.
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Colin Rose is a serial entrepreneur and game enthusiast.
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In the 24 years since then, Doug Gesler has worked as a programmer on over 15 titles across multiple platforms, including several AAA titles, all while managing a business and maintaining a presence in the independent games industry.
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Heidi Gesler is a developer who wears many hats at Iron Will Games. Originally from South Texas, she got into the game industry by chance through gaming with friends and fell in love with it.
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A Game Design student from Shawnee State University specializing in character art and animation.
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Chris Bergman is the CEO of Gylee Games, a games studio based in Cincinnati, OH. He's also a General Partner at The Fund Midwest, a venture fund he co-founded in 2020. Chris is also the co-owner of Cosmic Gorilla, a comic shop bar in Cincinnati, and the founder of ChoreMonster, which sold to Verizon in 2018. In his spare time, Chris DJs as an EDM artist under the name "Bergs." He says, “It's kinda cringe”, but he enjoys it.
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Will is an Environment Artist currently working at Lost Boys Interactive.
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Dustin was raised in rural Utah, where his imagination was his most constant companion. A reader, artist, and gamer from an early age, Dustin was encouraged to mine his talents, follow his passions, and find the fun in everyday life. Dustin studied art in college and entered the exciting world of video game development in 1994. His career has taken him and his family from coast to coast, but he always considered the small town he grew up in, Ephraim, Utah, his true home. After spending two decades with AAA publishers like EA, Sony, and Hasbro, Dustin, his wife, and four kids moved back to Ephraim, where he lives today in the shadows of a fine mountain, writes books about video games and dinosaurs, and takes long walks with his dog, Rusty. Dustin is currently working as a game director for Amber Studio, one of the most exciting international games service companies on the planet. Dustin's creative bounds are put to the test daily as he leads the new projects pitch team in over one hundred game concepts a year...and counting. Oh, and he loves the Utah Jazz, but that's another story altogether.
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Richard is Managing Director of Hitmarker, the largest video game industry jobs platform in the world.
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