In college I studied Video Game Design and Animation. After I graduated I was hired as an instructor for an after school academy that teaches STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math). My job was to create a curriculum that would teach middle school and high school kids algebra and geometry using video games. It was a really neat job and it taught me a lot about how to teach all age groups.
After one and a half years at that company, I was recruited to work for an app development company as a technical artist. I spent the next year working for that software development company more as a liaison between the various departments than an technical artist. I learned the ins and outs of the corporate world, the software development industry, and how to translate highly technical terms and processes into verbiage that any layman could understand.
Fast forward a few years and now I create intuitive and easy-to-follow Video Game Design online courses for a company called Pluralsight. As of 2018 I have two published courses with this company and I look forward to making more content for them.
Here’s a link to one of my courses: https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/game-maker-studio-making-first-game-2419
I discovered through being an instructor with the after school academy that teaching is my true passion. Since then, I have gone on to incorporate teaching into everything that I do – I teach live sushi classes, record sushi tutorials to publish on YouTube, teach fire spinning workshops at various flow festivals, and teach live seminars on fire spinning and combat choreography.