Eric Schmidt

I am Eric Schmidt and started at Raven in the summer of 2008.  I have a wife and 3 children.  If you want an interesting story ask me about the birth of child number two.

My first career was teaching High School Math and Computer Science at Waunakee High School.  I really enjoyed developing the Computer Science program there.  When I started it was two courses and only enough enrollment for 2 semester long classes.  And now it is a bustling program that has three courses and enough classes to keep 2 teachers busy.  The entire focus of one half of one course was learning how to make a video game from start to finish and actually doing it while working together on the project as a class.

Little known fact: I interviewed here at Raven several days afterI led a field trip here back in 2008.  I had to bribe the students a bit so they would behave.  I miss teaching, but I love my job.

At Raven I have worked on Wolfenstein, and Singularity.  Most of that time was spent as a gameplay programmer, but I have also done scripting and design.  If you asked my wife she would tell you that what I do at work is exactly what I used to do in my free time.  I love logic and math, and really enjoy using them to write a block of code that makes something happen in the game.