Experience

TT Fusion

• United Kingdom
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Technical Designer

  • Jul 2016 - Present

  • Designing, building, rigging and animation of level specific, set-piece, incidental and gamewide mechanics for game assets• Utilising the in-house/3rd party game editors to setup levels, mechanics and puzzle flow logic• Optimisation of level specific game assets and LOD’ing where required, across platforms• Focusing on Game Mechanics and providing feedback / highlighting issues for new / current tools, systems and game mechanics• Collaborating with multi-disciplines in the development team to help deliver and support gamewide mechanics• Providing support and advice to Technical Designers for game mechanics, level, setup, editor and game asset issues / queries where appropriate

• Technical Designer

  • Jun 2015 - Jul 2016

• Junior Technical Designer

  • Aug 2014 - Jul 2015



Cloud Imperium Games

• United States
• Computer Games
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Senior Quality Assurance

  • May 2014 - Aug 2014

  Announced Projects: Star Citizen / Squadron 42Duties:• Regular communication with the development team throughout multiplecountries, helping to prioritise multiple tasks.• Similarly, regular communication with the public to moderate, then provide technical support and to report wider seen issue into the internal database• Utilising JIRA and Confluence to track bugs, enter bugs and setting up efficient testing work flow processes• Providing feedback for gameplay, balancing and mechanics for the development team



TT Fusion

• United Kingdom
• Computer Games
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Quality Assurance

  • Jan 2010 - May 2014

  TT General Publishing - Knutsford & Wilmslow (QA Tester / QA Lead) Announced Projects: LEGO City Undercover, LEGO Chima, LEGO Lord of the Rings, LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes, Aragorn’s Quest, LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, LEGO Star Wars The Clone Wars, LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4Duties:• Regular communication with the development team, helping to prioritise multiple tasks.• Similarly, communication with production and producers to liaise requests to the testing team.• Highly proficient in the project issue tracking software JIRA.• When in a QA Lead / Shift Lead capacity, able to arrange and delegate tasks to the testing team.• Verified any fixes from the development team.• Setting up various sweep documents in excel to speed up efficiency and accuracy for various testing components (e.g. ensuring all characters have the correct abilities).• Completing regular smoke tests, to ensure and highlight general stability for different game builds.• Experience in testing all major platforms (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Wii-U, DS, PSP, PC, 3DS, IOS Devices (Multiple), Android Devices(Multiple), VITA)• Able to utilise in-house development tools (e.g. TT Fusion Editor, LED Editor, CAT Editor, Giz Editor, TT Console Manager) to help the testing process.

• Design Support

  • Sep 2012 - Nov 2012

  TT Fusion (Design Support)Announced Projects: LEGO CITY Undercover [Wii U]Duties:• Provided assistance to the development team, in particular the level designers, gaining a holistic insight to development process.• “Grandslam” city environments; creating a list of available simple props and requesting new props from the prop artists, to be placed in multiple themed areas (e.g. Crescent Park, Bright Lights Plaza and Downtown West).• Simple prop setup using in-house workflow processes • Prop placement using in-house tools (e.g. LED and Giz Editors).• Stud (in-game currency) placement and fixes.• Multiple vehicle camera set up, including boost, via the in-house CAT editor tool. • Minor bug fixes – including; Krawlie (simple NPC) placement, prop movement, stud bugs, prop issues, vehicle camera issues.