Ivan Ushtey
Game Designer at SKCG- Claim this Profile
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Russian Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Professional working proficiency
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Hebrew Elementary proficiency
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Credentials
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Certificate of the Event Producer - Producing school of Alexey Bokov
Producing school of Alexey BokovJan, 2016- Sep, 2024
Experience
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SKCG
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Russian Federation
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Game Designer
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Jun 2019 - Present
Project description: Creating a game which motivates children to solve math problems. The main idea is to convert math problem solving into moves on the game’s mapResponsibilities: - Meeting with a client to create terms of reference.- Generating the idea with artists and programmers.- Presenting the idea to the client- Managing the development with Agile methodology.Achievements:● Successfully transfered the raw idea of a client into a stack of technical documentation● Assembled a team (4 people) and controlled the process of game development until it’s Go-Live ● Prolonged the project for three seasons by adding new story lines and new game mechanics
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Head of non-academic program in LeSallay Academy
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Aug 2019 - Sep 2022
SKCG - LeSallay Academy is a private secondary school with a strong emotional support for students. For that purpose the school has contracted a group of counselors, psychologists etc.Responsibilities:- Creating and hosting 12 weeks of psychological and educational experience through games.- Hiring the crew of counselors for a project.- Developing educational programs for counselors.- Fixing any sort of Emergencies on project - from stopping fights between kids to providing assistance with young-adult problems.- Analyzing group dynamics and kids behavior - filling the documentation with Word/Excel/PowerPoint.Achievements:● Successfully registered over 150 counselors in order to form the teams for every on-site session of the academy. Up to 3 teams were serving over 12 sessions a year, including the pandemic period ● Took part in the daily planning and monitoring of development tasks, and define priorities● Designed a scheme of activities for counselor teams’ to insure its efficiency for more than 30 sessions ● Created and developed 100+ games to form group dynamics for children and adults of the academy ● Developed and maintained the documentation for expanding the school into a franchise which showed its efficiency in three countries (Russia, France, USA)
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Head Counselor
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May 2018 - Sep 2022
Project description: The Marabou Camp is based on studies and fun. After four lectures children need activities which are based on group dynamicsResponsibilities:- Creating and hosting 10 weeks of psychological and fun experience through games.- Hiring the crew of counselors for a project.- Developing educational programs for counselors.- Fixing any sort of Emergencies on project - from stopping fights between kids to providing assistance with young-adult problems.- Analyzing group dynamics and also kids and counselors behavior - filling the documentation with Word/Excel/PowerPoint.Achievements:● Found and contracted over 300 counselors for the camp● Executed over 30 sessions in 4 years despite the pandemic issues ● Created and developed 200+ games to form group dynamics and to break the language barrier. Including on-line formats.● Fixed dozens of technical, administrational and psychological issues in the session.
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Product Manager
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Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
Project description: The 9-month course of webinars and on-line tests to teach a student about the jewish history and cultureResponsibilities: - Meeting with a client to create terms of reference.- Creating a web-site for educational programm- Filling the web-site with content by inviting teachers for a series of on-line lessons or with texts.- Presenting the weekly analysis to the client. - Changing the project depending on the weekly analysis.- Managing the project by the PMP standarts.- Hosting a camp for kids.Achievements:● The requirements and scope was significantly increased based on the client's multiple requests three times during the project. Each time I was able to agree a new budget and duration of the project with the client● Two years of full document set’s management (Budgets, Terms of Reference, Requirements, Cost, Plan etc.)● In a short period (about 1,5 months) a team of 5 people was assembled. Also a website, program, technical support and equipment for a six-month course were developed ● Four camps for more than a hundred kids were conducted. The age of participants was 9-15 years.
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Curator Of Education
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Mar 2016 - Mar 2017
Achievements:● Two full courses of lectures were conducted despite an extremely high workload of lecturers● More than 50 lecturers over the year were found and invited● More than 50 students were curated including their work on diploma projects● Social networks of the school doubled the audience. Achievements:● Two full courses of lectures were conducted despite an extremely high workload of lecturers● More than 50 lecturers over the year were found and invited● More than 50 students were curated including their work on diploma projects● Social networks of the school doubled the audience.
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Project Manager
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May 2011 - May 2016
One of organisators and the host of the festival- Managing 3 teams of 24 people in total- planing the schedule and checking on a progress- full-circle organisation of the "Manga and Anime" day - searching for cosplayers, creating a programm for stage etc.- contacting all our contractors to set the stage and all the perfomance- building the festival's social media and advertisement - Hosting the event from the stage One of organisators and the host of the festival- Managing 3 teams of 24 people in total- planing the schedule and checking on a progress- full-circle organisation of the "Manga and Anime" day - searching for cosplayers, creating a programm for stage etc.- contacting all our contractors to set the stage and all the perfomance- building the festival's social media and advertisement - Hosting the event from the stage
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Nersus
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France
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Restaurants
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Organisator game-mechanic role-play games
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Jul 2010 - Aug 2013
- creating role-play games for kids (birthday parties) and adults (corporate parties) from the first idea to the resolution.- Writing in-game texts, - Representing company in social media - Hosting and developing of historical bals - creating role-play games for kids (birthday parties) and adults (corporate parties) from the first idea to the resolution.- Writing in-game texts, - Representing company in social media - Hosting and developing of historical bals
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Project Manager
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Sep 2010 - Apr 2011
Administrating mobile application development- Discussion of terms and tasks with our client- Planning of the scope and time limits- Checking the progress of the project Administrating mobile application development- Discussion of terms and tasks with our client- Planning of the scope and time limits- Checking the progress of the project
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Rosman Publishing Group
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Russian Federation
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Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Independent Consultant in Manga and Anime department
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Jun 2009 - Sep 2010
- Market analysis - Search and discuss of the best titles to work with in Russia- Setting an Advertasment compign in social media - Market analysis - Search and discuss of the best titles to work with in Russia- Setting an Advertasment compign in social media
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Education
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2014 - 2015
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Full course, Project Manager Professional -
2008 - 2013
Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation (Technical University)
Master of Engineering - MEng, Robototech
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