Vanessa Dannenberg
Central Station Supervisor
Revere, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVanessa Dannenberg is a seasoned operations leader with 13 years of experience managing alarm monitoring and central station operations in the Boston area, currently supervising Lexington Alarm Systems and serving as Assistant Manager at Wayne Alarm Systems. She blends front-line supervisory expertise with a practical technical curiosity, contributing code to open-source voxel gaming projects where she has implemented back-end game mechanics and meaningful UI/configuration improvements. Her work on the Technic mod and core Luanti changes shows an ability to navigate both systems-level logic and user-facing settings, a rare crossover for someone rooted in security-monitoring operations. Based in Revere, MA, she leverages a business management background to streamline processes and communicate effectively between technical teams and operational staff.
13 years of coding experience
University of Massachusetts BostonAssociate, Business Management, Associate, Business Management at Marian Court College
Github Skills (17)
c-language10
game-engine10
gameplay10
minetest10
configuration-management10
user-interface10
graphical-user-interface10
implement10
human-interface10
lua10
mechanics10
front-end-development10
voxel-engine10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
minetest-mods/technic
Aug 2018 - May 2020
Technic mod for Minetest
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 93 PRs, 152 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Vanessa primarily contributed to the "technic" mod for the Minetest game, focusing on adding and modifying game mechanics and crafting recipes. They implemented features such as new cable clips, blast-resistant concrete, and integrated the use of the "basic_materials" mod. The user also addressed various bug fixes, like correcting numeric types for 5.3.0-dev and improving the functionality of existing features like the CNC machine.
modtechnicminetest
luanti-org/luanti
Nov 2012 - Dec 2018
Luanti (formerly Minetest) is an open source voxel game-creation platform with easy modding and game creation
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 277 comments in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vanessa contributed to the game's UI and settings configuration, specifically focusing on video settings. They added new settings options for video filters (mip-map, anisotropic, bilinear, and trilinear) that are configurable through a settings file and a GUI menu. These changes involve modifying the main game logic, client-side map rendering, and default settings, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the codebase and a focus on enhancing the user experience. They also increased the hotbar limit and added keybinding options.
c-plus-plusvoxelscrosswordvoxelgame-engine
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