Programmer and Game Designer
JayCoughlan@protonmail.com
I'm currently looking to join the team at a great company! If you poke through my portfolio and think I might be a good fit, hit me up either by email (JayCoughlan@protonmail.com) or via LinkedIn. I look forward to hearing what makes your company amazing!
I have been volunteering for the Furry Writers’ Guild (FWG) since 2021, having been brought on to help support their current website on Wordpress and to help design their prospective new website on the Ghost blogging platform using the CSS framework Bulma. Because this was volunteer work, the new website...
Worked on both backend and frontend of our highly available booking platform Part of an Agile team with developers, product managers, and designers to create new features Participated in code reviews with the team to ensure high quality and performant code
This is a tool I made to automatically reach out to customers who had reported a bug when that bug had been resolved. Our process at Checkfront when a bug was reported by customers was to verify it’s validity, then either create a new ticket or find an existing ticket...
Developed and documented TSA processes both with and without external teams Trained customer facing teams on bug ticket creation in Jira and troubleshooting GetYourGuide Facilitated learning and 1-on-1 sessions with TSA team members
Built using Unity3D Built, developed, and tested gameplay mechanics (including player controls, enemy AI, environment, and menu UI) as a part of a four-person team Managed development tasks alongside full-time work
I am currently working on a new video game project, Neon Roar, with some like-minded individuals at Fenris Publishing. The game is a retro-style love letter to early sega genesis games, such as Golden Axe, Gradius, and Contra. The game features four different characters, each with a unique style of...
I made this tool while working as a QA Automation Developer. Our processes every other week required us to mirror the tickets taken on by the development team each sprint in Zephyr. This was so we could use Zephyr to adequately track QA testing and assign new or existing tests...
Worked with development team to provide QA support Developed and supported tools for automating the Zephyr workflow Engaged in deployment responsibilities for nightly deploys
Used advanced troubleshooting and debugging to solve escalated customer issues Provided support and for internal team-members Worked on and published bug fixes in the Checkfront platform
Worked with clients to troubleshoot their system and provide unique recommendations Lead our Internal Documentation Update project on Confluence Used Jira to keep track of system bugs, improvements, and feature requests
Strong communication with different team members Troubleshooted technical issues with customers Dealt with many different devices and configurations Quickly learned tools and skills for better troubleshooting and resolution steps Kept track of issues and incidents using Case Management ticketing system
Cave Flier was our final industry project for BCIT. During these three weeks, we were tasked with coding a Virtual Reality game using Unity3D and GoogleVR platforms for our client, Ace3DFX. The game was a flight simulator where the player would use their phone’s accelerometer to steer their way through...
As a part of my Advanced Digital Processing option at BCIT I learned about various compression techniques on video, image, and audio files. This project was designed to teach me basic compression on image files in a style similar to .JPEG. In the above image you can see the original...
The team I worked with at Absolute Software was the hosting operations team, and one of the problems we had was that there were so many dashboards showing us details and statistics about our various systems, we often couldn’t keep up. Switching between these dashboards and refreshing them took time...
Among my responsibilities at Absolute Software I was tasked with designing and building a powershell script that connected to a list of windows servers and check their local passwords against a password repository. The script took the following steps: Read the list of inputted cnames and divided them into an...
Developed and updated dashboard application Worked with servers and server applications Developed Powershell scripts to manage passwords on systems Compared various products and handled business communications for potential use
Skippy’s Gold was a five week term project me and five other programmers worked on. This was the first large project I worked on with a team of programmers, instead of a team with assorted skills and abilities. Our theme for the project was mobile thinking games, and the result...
Moon Child was the first game project I worked on as a part of my course at Vancouver Film School. Me and a team of three other’s worked together to design, plan, and build the entire game, including art assets, visual effects, code, level, and sound. The game was inspired...