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Erica Miller

Student, Freelancer

University of Houston

I’m Me.

Erica Miller is a well-rounded freelancer that currently attends University of Houston aiming to get her Computer Information Systems (CIS) degree in 2025. She strives to inspire and educate others with her expertise in leadership, technology, and design. Her interests include a wide spectrum of subjects, ranging to the art of game design, network architecture, system administration, and information technology. She is known for her outgoing personality and her leadership skills.

Outside of academics, she enjoys collaborating with individuals online and creating digital art for several online video games. She has over eight years of experience with working in project-based team environments, and has outstandingly displayed the full capability in collaborating with teams of all sizes.

Interests

  • Graphic Design
  • Game Design
  • Information Systems
  • Information Security
  • System Administration
  • Networking

Recent Posts

I wanna change my blog out sometime.

Some parts of my blog website bother me.

Panda3D: Baking Fade LODs into Models

Obscure and hidden render trick.

TTA: Enchanting the Ye Olde Toontowne Interiors

A little backstage story two years in the making!

TTA: Repalettizing Spiral of Shenanigans I

Repalettizing The Stun Graphic… Gone Wrong?

Reverse Engineering TTP Files

Recovering old Toontown Spoofer files

Skills

What do I do?

Game Design

4 Years of Collected Experience

Adobe Photoshop

8 Years of Collected Experience

Position of Leadership

5 Years of Collected Experience

Graphic Design

6 Years of Collected Experience

IT Technician

6 Years of Experience

Git

6 Years of Experience

Java

3 Years of Experience

System Administration

3 Years of Experience

Python

3 Years of Collected Experience

Autodesk Maya

3 Years of Collected Experience

Vegas Pro

~6 Months of Collected Experience

Experience

What have I done?

 
 
 
 
 

The Resources Guardian

Corporate Clash

May 2019 – Sep 2024 United States

My roles on the team consisted of: * Texture art direction * Technical art direction * Creative lead, management, & direction * Game design

Responsibilities include:

  • Creating textures and UI from the ground-up while preserving the Toontown art style.
  • Working with vectors (Photoshop) to ensure optimization of the texture.
  • Using tools such as Autodesk Maya, 3D-Coat, Photoshop and a touch of Illustrator.
 
 
 
 
 

Graphic Designer, System Administrator

Dulles Robotics

Jan 2019 – Aug 2020 United States

Responsibilities include:

  • Hosting the Dulles Robotics web server on a locally-hosted, virtualized Debian server.

    • Originally Set up the Dulles Robotics web server on a Raspberry Pi.

  • Established a group of enthusiastic members within the Robotics team to pursue the responsibilities of website and server maintenance.

  • Successfully taught the fundamentals of Linux and system administration to ensure that the students were capable of applying solutions when they were assigned individual tasks.

    Alongside being the primary system administrator, I accepted responsibility of completing the major graphic design work that was required in Robotics.

My design responsibilities included:

  • Assigning members on important tasks and enforcing deadlines (if given any)

  • Organizing groups and boards on various platforms (such as Discord, Trello, Google Drive) in order to manage the team most effectively.

  • Working on major graphics, both independently and in collaboration with other teammates.

  • Giving and receiving constructive criticism.
 
 
 
 
 

Creative Designer, Texture Artist

Toontown Offline

Aug 2016 – Jun 2021 United States
Responsibilities include:

  • Creating textures, graphics, and other assets in the Toontown art style.
  • Working with vectors (Photoshop) to ensure optimization of the texture.
  • Previously hosting community events such as live streams on a popular streaming website called Twitch.

    Note: I left the team in April 2018 and rejoined May 2019.

Projects

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Toontown Corporate Clash

A free-to-play MMORPG based off Disney’s Toontown Online

DemiBOT

Open-source Discord bot created in Java.

Project Pigeon

A drone with an installed probe that allows users to collect atmospheric information. Created during Inventathon@HCC in 2019.

Toon Trouble

Game demo made in Panda3D (Python).