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Facial Picture I am a highly creative and adaptable games designer with over 12 years' professional experience. I have excellent conceptual, presentation and writing skills which have been central in securing contracts and licences for the companies I have worked for. I have consistently been placed in leading positions of responsibility requiring excellent communication, planning and team skills as well as considerable initiative.

As well as working on 11 titles professionally I have also been a keen mapper and modder for the past 13 years, building levels for many of the best known first person shooters.



Abilities

Lead design: conceptual design, maintaining game focus and vision through development, creation of USP’s, giving design presentations, leading a design team, writing and maintaining a GDD, scheduling, interviews, writing tutorials and guidelines, best practice presentations, pipeline design and development.


Level design: mission design, level layout, level creation and illustration in SketchUp, Maya and multiple level editors, prop placement, ai placement, level scripting, presentation of levels, liaising with artists/programmers, level editor design, texturing.


Game design: creating and developing game mechanics, camera design, controls design, character design, a.i. design, G.U.I. design, front-end design, multiplayer game design, prototyping and testing mechanics.

12 years' experience of documenting every aspect of game design: game design documents, technical design documents, level design documents, concept documents, creating presentations for publishers, script writing.

13 years experience of mapping and modding first person shooter levels.

Considerable experience of liaising with publishers, archive companies, translation companies and license holders.

Ability to apply an awareness of the games and wider entertainment markets and consumer trends to game design.

Game Design History

Frontier Developments, Cambridge, UK - Feb 2008-Oct 2010
The Outsider (PS3, XBox 360, PC) - Gameplay & Level Designer


Circle Studio, Derby, UK - 2004-2007
Without Warning (PS2, XBox) - Gameplay & Level Designer
The Price is Right (Interactive DVD game) - Lead Designer
2006 FIFA World Cup (Interactive DVD game) - Lead Designer
Scene It? FIFA (DVD Board game) - Project Manager/Lead Designer
Now Music (Interactive DVD game) - Lead Designer


Batfish Studios, Banbury, UK - 2002-2003
Captain Scarlet Retaliation (PC) - Lead Designer


Silicon Dreams, Banbury, UK - 1998-2002
Lego Island 3 Extreme Stunts (PC, PS2, GBA) - Designer
Lego Island 2 (AGB) - Designer/Tester
Lego Football Mania (PS2, PC) - Lead Designer
Dogs of War (PC) - Lead Level Designer

Design Awards

Scene It? FIFA (DVD Board game)
DVD Association: Best DVD video game 2006
Toy Innovaton: Trend Innovation winner 2006


Lego Football Mania (PS2, PC)
Parents Choice Foundation: Best Video game 2002

Software Proficiency

Microsoft Office: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, Visio
Art Packages: Adobe Photoshop CS4, SketchUp 8, Maya 2009, Flash
Level Building Software: Hammer, UnrealEd (UDK), Worldcraft, Gtk Radiant
Web Page Design: HTML (XHTML), CSS, Dreamweaver CS5
Script Writing Packages: Final Draft version 6
Game Scripting: Lua, Kismet

Education

University of Reading (Degree)
BSc Economics with honours

Solihull Sixth Form College (A-Levels)
1 S-Level: History
4 A-Levels: Economics, English Literature, History, General Studies

Solihull School (O-Levels)
6 O-Levels

Solihull Technical College
One year course in fine art

Interests

Gaming: in particular first person shooters, strategy games, driving games and stealth games.
Mapping: I have built levels for Doom 2, Unreal, Quake, Call of Duty and Counter-Strike Source.
Game Modding: I worked on a Quake 3 mod called Asylum in my free time for 18 months (2001-2002).
History of Warfare: particularly the Second World War and modern war periods.
Other Interests: films, art, creative writing (screenplays) and music (I have passed up to grade 8 on piano)