Jay Coughlan is a graduate from BCIT’s Computer System’s Technology program and is a current Vancouver Film School alumnus with a diploma in Video Game Design. He’s been driven to work in the tech industry since he was young, inspired by his favourite hobby, video games. He attended Vancouver Film School hoping to get a job designing game’s like those he had played, but found an interest in programming and computer systems instead. This interest led him to attend BCIT where he learned to code in various languages, such as Java, C, C++, and HTML/CSS. He learned how object oriented languages functioned and how to design for them. In his second year at BCIT Jay entered the Digital Processing option where he learned about fourier transforms, how to read and write media files such as Jpeg and Wav, and how to manipulate the data to transform compression algorithms.

Currently, Jay is working at Checkfront as the lead for the Technical Support Analyst team. In this position, he develops processes and knowledge bases for intermediate troubleshooting tickets. He uses his skills of understanding code to tackle particularily tricky bugs.

Beyond video games, Jay likes to read and write. His favourite books genres are fantasy, and he eagerly picks up new titles to burn through. Currently he’s reading the Lies of Locke Lamora series by Scott Lynch. Jay also loves dragons, whether it’s fighting them in Dungeons & Dragons or reading about them in books, or collecting dragon figures, those fantastical creatures inspire him and his creativity.