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Hi, I'm Lauren! I develop games and immersive experiences based out of the Pacific Northwest. I have been making interactive experiences for over 10 years, with six of those years dedicated to producing professional work for immersive experiences, mainly focused on AR (augmented reality) and MR (mixed reality). Throughout my time as a developer, I created gameplay systems for casual games on mobile platforms, designed user interfaces and built menu systems for practical applications in AEC (architecture, engineering, construction), and prototyped and iterated on product designs of app experiences for wearable AI glasses.…Hi, I'm Lauren! I develop games and immersive experiences based out of the Pacific Northwest. I have been making interactive experiences for over 10 years, with six of those years dedicated to producing professional work for immersive experiences, mainly focused on AR (augmented reality) and MR (mixed reality). Throughout my time as a developer, I created gameplay systems for casual games on mobile platforms, designed user interfaces and built menu systems for practical applications in AEC (architecture, engineering, construction), and prototyped and iterated on product designs of app experiences for wearable AI glasses.

Lauren Lizardo

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Game Developer, UI Designer, Programmer, +2

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Hi, I'm Lauren! I develop games and immersive experiences based out of the Pacific Northwest. I have been making interactive experiences for over 10 years, with six of those years dedicated to producing professional work for immersive experiences, mainly focused on AR (augmented reality) and MR (mixed reality). Throughout my time as a developer, I created gameplay systems for casual games on mobile platforms, designed user interfaces and built menu systems for practical applications in AEC (architecture, engineering, construction), and prototyped and iterated on product designs of app experiences for wearable AI glasses.…Hi, I'm Lauren! I develop games and immersive experiences based out of the Pacific Northwest. I have been making interactive experiences for over 10 years, with six of those years dedicated to producing professional work for immersive experiences, mainly focused on AR (augmented reality) and MR (mixed reality). Throughout my time as a developer, I created gameplay systems for casual games on mobile platforms, designed user interfaces and built menu systems for practical applications in AEC (architecture, engineering, construction), and prototyped and iterated on product designs of app experiences for wearable AI glasses.

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Portland, United States

Hi, I’m Lauren! I develop games and immersive experiences based out of the Pacific Northwest. I have been making interactive experiences for over 10 years, with six of those years dedicated to producing professional work for immersive experiences, mainly focused on AR (augmented reality) and MR (mixed reality). Throughout my time as a developer, I created gameplay systems for casual games on mobile platforms, designed user interfaces and built menu systems for practical applications in AEC (architecture, engineering, construction), and prototyped and iterated on product designs of app experiences for wearable AI glasses.

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Work Experience

Unity Engineer (contract) at Argyle, Inc.

September 1, 2023 - December 1, 2023

Developed a platform-agnostic brush tool that stored vertex information for remote team collaboration; designed and prototyped new user flows and layouts to enhance existing UI and improve overall UX; provided consultation on design best practices for design processes, code collaboration, and team operations.

Software Prototyper II at Meta Reality Labs

June 1, 2021 - May 1, 2023

Created interactive prototypes for AR and MR headsets as proof-of-concepts for the Orion AI AR glasses; designed and built software tools to streamline prototyping in the Unity engine for cross-functional teams; conducted research and development on various electronic prototyping hardware tools for Unity projects.

UI Engineer at Argyle, Inc.

February 1, 2020 - May 1, 2021

Integrated MRTK for the HoloLens 1 to HoloLens 2 transition to utilize eye- and hand-tracking capabilities; designed and created a menu system for users to load projects, access information, and use app tools; established a Scriptable Object event system to simplify event-handling within a complex code architecture.

Gameplay Engineer (contract) at WNK, Inc.

July 1, 2019 - November 1, 2019

Utilized the in-house face-tracking API based on ARKit and ARCore to manipulate character blendshapes; designed and implemented gameplay systems such as Match Three scoring and point-based item unlocking; created a template-based character class that defined general movement capabilities and physics behaviors.

Gameplay Engineer at Superstar Games

January 1, 2019 - May 1, 2019

Developed a leaderboard system that saves and retrieves user data from mobile social gaming platforms; sketched and 3D modeled modular assets to create a variety of golf courses differing in layout and difficulty.

Backyard AR Kicker at Backyard AR

January 1, 2018 - December 1, 2018

Implemented a modifiable level creation system using data containers and variable difficulty customizations; created an object pooling system for recurring items to enhance game performance for mobile devices.

Magic Blocks at Magic Blocks (Mobile)

August 1, 2017 - December 1, 2017

Led the development of Hide 'n' Seek Mode and created a system that generated variable block structures; designed and implemented core mechanics and gameplay systems within a one-week prototyping phase.