RA GUTIERREZ, LLC
LAKELAND, FLORIDA

I started my first programming projects in 7th grade, when I was introduced to web development and video game development. Back then, my knowledge was limited to HTML/CSS and a game engine called GameMaker. I honed my skills throughout high school and was able to get a small intern position at the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM), helping design flyers and other conference materials, as well as helping to maintain some Wordpress sites. My next position was as a web developer at my university, California State University, Chico. There, I learned a lot about PHP, Javascript and SQL databases. My coursework at the university dealt mostly with video game production as well as courses on production in film and web sites. For a long time, video games were my passion. As a college student, I helped program several games, for myself and others, for class projects. I participated in Chico State Game Studios, an organization based around the students enrolled in the "APCG 495" course. There were around 40 students participating at a time. The course was ran like a real studio: we broke into teams like concept art, level design, etc., we had team leads, we used an SVN repository for all our code. I also learned what "crunch" was. I spent many late nights in the computer lab making sure we hit our deadlines.