Experience

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  Mastered

  • London, England, United Kingdom (remote)

  • Consultant and Mentor

    • Nov 2022 - Present
    • London, England, United Kingdom (remote)

    Training Game Companies and individuals in the use of game tech such as Unreal Engine and Blender.Mentoring prospective video game industry employees and teaching relevant coding and art skills. Also involved in curriculum development and Game Jams.

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  Toxyn Games

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Founder and Game Developer

    • Mar 2021 - Present
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    I’m involved with mentoring and managing devs and companies as well as working on game dev projects

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  Vega School

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Game Design Lecturer

    • Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    2022- Teaching Game Design applied theory and prototyping in Unity, asset implementation; Working on research- narrative significance in gamification of education; Game Jam Coordinator.2021- Game Design Lecturer and Game Design Module Discipline Leader (MDL).2020- Managing the Game Design portfol...

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  Lucid Fantasy Productions

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Freelance Developer

    • Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    Unity, C#, Databases, PHP, MySQL.

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  AIE, Academic Institute of Excellence

  • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

  • Senior Lecturer

    • Dec 2018 - Jul 2019
    • Johannesburg Area, South Africa

    Managing tutorial production and QC of content.Created video tutorials using recording software and AE/ Premiere.I was a curriculum and content developer and taught 3D character animation in Maya, 3D Architectural Visualisation and game art in 3Ds Max, with a specific focus on VR and Unity. I als...

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  Pearson

  • Bedfordview, Johannesburg

  • Digital Media Lecturer

    • Mar 2014 - 2018
    • Bedfordview, Johannesburg

    Mentored junior staff and was involved in interview processes.I taught 2nd and 3rd year students Maya, After Effects, HTML/CSS/JS, Photoshop and Illustrator, among other software and technologies. I also mentored junior staff and worked as part of a cohesive team.2017-2018Teaching Motion Graphics...

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  Vega School

  • Johannesburg

  • Lecturer

    • Jul 2016 - Dec 2016
    • Johannesburg

    I taught Digital Design and Technology to 1st and 2nd year students.

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  ThoroughTec Simulation

  • South Africa
  • Mining
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • 3D Artist

    • 2012 - 2014

    Mentored juniors.3D Artist working on objects for serious game worlds and complex, articulating vehicles (3D Max and Photoshop; some XML).

  • 3D Artist Intern

    • Mar 2012 - May 2012

    Low Poly 3D Modelling; Texturing; Creating Model Files with in-house software and editing shaders in XML.

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  Techitout (Formerly ITF Gaming)

  • Game Reviewer

    • 2011 - 2012

    Wrote video game reviews for products supplied by distribution companies. Attended and covered events and expos, hosted by companies like Electronic Arts. Updated Wordpress blog.

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  Market Photo Workshop

  • Media Officer

    • 2011 - 2012

    PR, Web page management, graphic design and taught Web Design.