John Thompkins
VR Programmer at CAE USA
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Thompkins is a VR programmer and Unity specialist with eight years of experience building immersive training simulations, visualizations, and AR/VR applications for organizations including NASA Glenn and CAE USA. He blends graphics integration, systems engineering, and cross-platform optimization to deliver experiences for devices from Oculus headsets to CAVEs, often coordinating with artists and multiple teams to meet tight deadlines. At NASA he managed a dozen concurrent projects and mentored interns, demonstrating both technical depth and project leadership in research-driven environments. His background spans Unity development, visualization, and model-based systems engineering, with hands-on experience shipping educational and operational simulations. Based in Cleveland, he’s motivated by advancing mixed reality and gaming and brings a pragmatic, research-friendly approach to prototyping novel interaction and visualization solutions.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at Mount Vernon Nazarene UniversityGithub contributions (5)
johthompkins/Robot-Maze-Andriod-Mobile
Oct 2017 - Feb 2023
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
johthompkins/Multimedia-Projects
Feb 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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