SANTIAGO PONCIO

SANTIAGO PONCIOSANTIAGO PONCIOSANTIAGO PONCIO

SANTIAGO PONCIO

SANTIAGO PONCIOSANTIAGO PONCIOSANTIAGO PONCIO

About Me

 I am a mechanics designer that enjoys making deep interlocking systems primarily for Puzzle, RPG, and Strategy games. I specialize in expanding existing systems, balancing complex mechanics, and implementing iterative design integrated with playtesting data. I have experience in Unity visual scripting and C# and am fluent in both English and Spanish. 

Work Experience

Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA  (Sep 2023 – Dec 2023)

Comparative Medicine Technician II

  • Assisted with several months-long experiments involving rodent behavioral monitoring and drug administration.


Jean Mayer USDA Nutrition Research Center, Boston, MA  (July 2022 - Sep 2023)

Senior Animal Technician

  • Trained and managed the departmental team consisting of technicians and graduate research students as we maintained a research mouse core of several thousand mice
  • Performed veterinary nursing and research support tasks, such as: rodent breeding, blood collection, oral gavages,  Subcutaneous Intramuscular Intravenous and Intraperitoneal fluid injections, anesthesia application, necropsy, DEXA and MRI scanning, dissections, and hydration and nutritional intake maintenance.


Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA  (July - Dec 2021) 

Research Technician

  • Participated in weekly meetings analyzing relevant neuroscience research developments for usage in current experiments
  • Restructured advanced neural networks in a mosquito antennal lobe using advanced software on an electron microscopy dataset.

Education

Northeastern University, Boston, MA  (Jan 2025 -Est. Dec 2026)

M.S. in Game Science and Design


Northeastern University, Boston, MA  (May 2023) 

B.S. in Physics


Honors: University Dean’s List, University Hispanic Scholarship, Cum Laude Honors

Activities: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), O-Stem, Society of Physics Students

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