Alex Shafer

Education

Currently attending The Ohio State University majoring in Film Studies and minoring in Video Arts
Hilliard Darby High School – Approximate GPA: 3.89

Python/Java/Powershell
Web Development – HTML/JavaScript/CSS
Windows/Linux (Red Hat/CentOS/Ubuntu/Debian)
Networking – Cisco/HP/Dell/Juniper Switches (Layer 2)
Version Control – GitHub/GitLab (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery)
Live Broadcasting – Open Broadcasting Software, VMix, NewTek NDI, FFmpeg
Recorded Video – Adobe Premier Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Blender, FFmpeg

August 2016 – Current: Ohio State University College of Engineering Technology Services
- August 2016 – October 2019: Student IT Assistant
- October 2019 – Current: Systems Developer/Engineer - DevOps Engineer
- Documenting the previous and current College of Engineering network
- Development of scripts to make Linux changes easier and faster
- Assisting with automation of standard system installs for Red Hat and Ubuntu systems
- Assisting general support and troubleshooting of Linux installs for production, academic, and research use cases.
June 2016 – August 2016: Honda of America Manufacturing (Marysville) – Production Line Associate:
- Inspection on the final paint line, with high attention to detail on the exterior of the car

Ohio State University College of Engineering AEV Project https://u.osu.edu/engr1182spring2017class7219teamc/:
- Rewrote majority of class supplied code to create a unique solution for the AEV project
- Selected by instructors as one of two from the class section to advance to the competition stage
- Developed scripts to convert the data captured by the vehicle to overlays for videos recordings
Ohio Supercomputer Center’s Summer Institute
- Part of the Networking subgroup, learning the basics of networking, such as VLANs, Routing,
- Documented experience though blog, available at https://enzanki-ars.github.io/darby-capstone
Buckeye Gaming Collective at The Ohio State University - Developer and Broadcast Technology Chair
- Majority of broadcasts saved on:
  - YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY7HuPk0VA_vG9QZFvw66MIei-4HMPbLQ
  - Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/osubgc/videos?filter=collections
- Running broadcasts of matches using open source and free components incorporated with a custom stream graphic overlay program using Open Broadcasting Software, NewTek NDI, Python, Redis, and HTML/CSS/Javascript/Websockets, available at https://gitlab.com/osubgc/stream-graphics
- Design of a server to handle on demand replays during live broadcasts using NGINX, Python, HTML/Javascript/Websockets, available at https://gitlab.com/osubgc/stream-replay