Chris Monteferrante

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Christopher Monteferrante

chris@axcelsius.com // chrismonteferrante.com // +1 (301) 775-0883

SUMMARY

I’m a software engineer, game developer, Unity expert, road-traveller, photographer, & artist. Professionally, I am the Head of Product & Engineering for SpellBound AR, a small company that creates video-games, medical tools, and education programs for pediatric patients.

SKILLS

Languages: Skilled in C#, TypeScript, and Python; Experience with C++, C, Java, and JavaScript
Technical: Unity, Angular, Vuforia AR, Flask, Django, HTML5, CSS, AWS (EC2 + S3)
Creative: Blender, Illustrator, Photoshop, AfterEffects

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SpellBound AR— Head of Product & Engineering — Aug 2019 to present

  • Led a multidisciplinary team to develop ARISE, an augmented reality (AR) role playing adventure.
  • Helped plan a digital strategy, brought the game to market, and helped onboard 12 hospitals.
  • Worked with doctors & medical researchers to design analytics systems for game research.
  • Conducted interviews, hired, taught, and managed 4 technical interns, 4 UX interns, and 2 artists.
  • Wrote and published 76 custom Unity packages to facilitate reusing code between apps.
  • Built 10 arcade-style games for ourWaiting Room Activities product line.
  • Built an AR educational program that teaches children about MRI procedures.
  • Built a Hololens app to augment medical mannequins and show medical conditions in AR.
  • Redesigned thousands of lines worth of deprecated systems, and used assetbundles and AWS S3 hosting to optimize our runtime experience.

Axcelsius Labs — Partner & software developer — Dec 2023 to present

  • My personal LLC where I recently completed a 10 month Angular application contract.

Home Depot — Full stack web development intern — May to August 2019

  • Worked with 4 developers to build an internal api permissions dashboard (Flask/Angular).

OTHER EXPERIENCE

Iron Mountain Software – My personal public codebase – Jan. 2023 to present

  • A collection of C# Unity packages that I wrote, documented, and published for others to use.

Scarlet Tanager Game Studio — My indie video-game studio — July 2023 to present

  • Published 11 free, standalone games to itch.io.
  • I’m leading a team of 4 to build A Long Dark Night, a first person narrative adventure.

Various Game Jams — GGJ (x3), Ludum Dare (x2), GMTK (x1) – April 2019 to present

Crush’d Dating Website — Co-owner & developer – December 2019 to June 2020

  • Worked with 2 friends to build a anonymous dating/messaging site for our school.
  • Acquired ~1600 in 2 months before Covid led us to shut down.

EDUCATION

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor — September 2016 to December 2019

  • Major: Computer Science (School of Engineering) GPA: 3.62/4.0

RECOGNITION

University of Michigan: Dean’s List (6 semesters), University Honors (3 semesters)

OTHER

Social Events Coordinator — Sigma Chi Fraternity — April 2017 to June 2018

Eagle Scout — Boy Scouts of America — Earned October 2015

Surf Rescue Technician — Ocean City Beach Patrol — Summers 2014 to 2018

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