M DeNardo
Composer, Designer, Educator
@markdenardo (LinkedIn, Github, Instagram, Soundcloud)
mark.denardo@gmail.com
773-807-2910
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2014 - 2025 Lead Educator, Curriculum Developer, STEM, AI After3 Coding Club, NEST+m, New York, NY
2022 - 2024 Online Instructor, Curriculum Developer, Instructional Designer The GIANT Room, New York, NY
2022 Producer, Mentor, Performer LiveCode.NYC, New York, NY
2017 - 2020 Instructional Designer, Mentor, Teenage Engineering, New York, NY
2019 Instructor, Game Design, 3D Printing, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
2018 - present Producer, Performer Daya Yoga Studios Queens, NY
2018 - 2019 Adjunct Instructor, Game Design, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ
2017 - 2019 Visiting Instructor, Game Design, Immersive Sound Design Pratt Institute, New York, NY
2017 Adjunct Instructor, Creative Coding, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Guest Instructor, Game Design, NYU Tisch, ITP Summer Camp, New York, NY
2016 Guest Instructor, VGM/SFX Sound Class, NYU Tisch, ITP Program, New York, NY
2015 - 2017 Instructor, Game Design / Paper and Digital Prototyping, New York Film Academy, New York, NY
2015 Guest Instructor, Game Design, Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY
2015 Guest Instructor, Hardware hacking, LSDJ Music course, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, NY
2014 - 2019 Guest Instructor, VGM/SFX Sound Class, NYU Steinhart, NYU Game Center, Brooklyn, NY
2010 - 2020 Karate Instructor, Traditional Okinawan Karate, Brooklyn, NY
DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE
2025 - present Production Manager, Instructional Designer, AI Engineer Toilville
2004 - present Composer, UI/UX Designer, Project Manager, Programmer, Marketing Lead, PixelJAM Games
2021 React Developer, Spectacle Theater; React Developer for Streaming Video Application
2021 - 2022 UX Designer, birdkids; UX/UI designer for offgrid iOS WIP
2016 UX Designer, Looking Glass Factory; UI/UX Designer for Tesseract, a music program in Unity for AR
2020 Software Engineer, Disasterpeace, Brooklyn, NY; C++ / JUCE Audio Plugins
2020 Software Engineer, MIDI Ditties; Migrated Javascript project to C++ / JUCE Framework as agnostic MIDI Plug-in
2019 Project Manager, iOS / Unity Developer, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2016 UI/UX Designer, AR Production Manager Looking Glass Factory, Brooklyn, NY
COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE
2022 - 2023 Technical Producer, Showrunner, Engineer, Flash Crash, New York, NY
2017 - 2020 Instructional Designer, Influencer, Mentor Teenage Engineering, New York, NY
SKILLS
Programming: ChatGPT, CoPilot, Claude, Ollama, HTML, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Node.js, Material UI,
AWS, Storybook, C++, C#, Java, Python, Haskell, Plutus, Rust, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Lua, Unity, Unreal Engine
Teaching: Instructional Design, Creative Coding, Paper/Digital prototyping, VGM/SFX Composition
Performing Arts: Live Coding, Ambient, Stringed Instruments, Digital Instruments, Singing, Movement, Touring
Sound Design: ProTools, Logic, Ableton Live, Reaper, Renoise, MilkyTracker, GarageBand, Audition
Game Design: Prototyping, UI/UX, Xcode, Unity, Pico-8, GameMaker, Scratch, Pico-8, Tynker, Twine
EDUCATION
1992 - 1997 B.A. English, Writing, Communication Design, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
2019 - 2020 Fullstack Software Engineering Coding Bootcamp, Flatiron School, Brooklyn, NY
2012 - 2013 Certificate in iPhone App Development, PACE University, New York, NY
REFERENCES
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