Adam Hooley Email & Phone Number

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Backlog Management - I am responsible for creating the backlog process used at Fareshare - the backlog had filled up with work needed to be completed but was in an unruly state. I streamlined the process to aid our development team work on these items, allowing senior management to understand and plan as well note the ROI on each piece of work. User Adoption Tracking - When work has been carried out on new systems, improvements or changes to process I was responsible for tracking how well the users have adopted these changes, by reporting on relevant changes on Salesforce and reporting back to Stakeholders.Scoping Planned Work - Being part of the development process from start to finish - holding workshops to get user requirements. Creating a clear and defined list of specifications to pass on to the developers for them to work on, adding these to Jira in a clear and concise manner. Finally I was involved in the testing and deployment of these changes to the business. User Assistance - Helping members of the internal team at Fareshare UK and their partners to understand and use Salesforce as efficiently as possible.

I have most recently been working as a freelance UI / UX designer. It has been my job to create prototype mock ups of applications, gain the relevant feedback and make any changes. I used Adobe XD to create and publish the prototypes.

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

I am the Talent Acquisition Advisor for Stellar Entertainment and I’m the first point of contact for anything recruitment based. We have an amazing team which we are looking to really grow this year. We are passionate developers who love what we do and are looking for similar minded people to help us create the very best games possible! If you are interested, reach out and we can chat about opportunities available.

Rotherham, England, United Kingdom

We have massive aspirations to grow and increase our headcount and we are constantly looking for the right people to join our awesome team! We offer competitive salaries with great commission, training, and an amazing working environment. If you are an experienced recruiter or somebody who is looking to break into the recruitment industry, get in contact by email (adam.hooley@aswift.com), call me on 01709 834 777 or send me a message here on Linkedin for a confidential chat. We match the best people with the best clients, from small start-up studios making their first venture into games development, through to the international leaders of the games industry.Over our 30 years we have evolved to become the market leading recruitment consultancy not only for Video Games, Online and Mobile Entertainment, but also our specialised division dedicated to the Toys and Licensing industry.Our Recruiters locate the hard-to-find talent that studios need to get their games built. We do have an extensive candidate database of tens of thousands of games professionals – but we’re a Search Agency. Most of our placements now involve meticulously scouring the market for excellent passive job seekers that the job boards, adverts and internal recruiters just can’t deliver.

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

I have been working a varied role at Smartglyph, my main focus is project manager. I directly manage 4 staff members as well as dealing with an external dev team of 4. I ensure that the team have a good understanding of the tasks required as well as why they are important to ensure as much buy in from the staff. I feel that my organisational skills as well as my strong communication skills have seen me improve my managing style and has produced some great projects. Smartglyph work with companies in England, America and Thailand so I have had to communicate with stakeholders in multiple time zones, keeping them up to date on progress as well as collating any additional changes or issues into the production schedule.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

I have three years experience in recruitment and a genuine passion for the digital and technical industries. I have worked on multiple desks in previous recruitment roles and am able to utilize my previous experience and skills to proactively find the best fit for both my clients and candidates in the digital industries. Joining Benchmark has allowed me to tap into their experience and great client and candidate list to help me progress and improve my existing skill set even further. Benchmark are an award winning recruitment firm created over 10 years ago and have an exceptional reputation due to their creative and caring approach which puts both the client and candidates at the top of our priority list. I work alongside an amazing team with a wealth of knowledge and the key areas Benchmark covers are:• Business Support• Sales & Marketing • Creative, Digital and IT

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Skyblue solutions gave me a chance to work in the recruitment industry as a talent sourcing specialist, in this role I was taken out of my comfort zone and thrown into a new role which required the use of existing skills in a completely new way. Whilst here I have been given the opportunity to work on multiple different projects, finding people for varied roles from phone operative to high level multi-skilled engineers. A rewarding role where I had many tasks from CV sifting, phone and face to face interviews as well as client management. I dived head first into this role and have been able to improve my planning, organisational, communicational and team work skills.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

My roles varied depending on the tasks at hand, I was responsible for artwork used in multiple titles as well as ensuring that the quality of the products were of an exceptionally high quality, which played some part in the last two titles I worked on reaching number one in the sales charts on Sony Vita and PC. The company worked with Sega of Europe as well as Sports Interactive and me and the rest of the team had to convey our thoughts and ideas in weekly conference calls. This role helped me mature as we had many technical issues on one of our titles and allowed me to deal with problems in a effective and professional manner.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

At Urban Scan I was given the role of the Team leader in the production of a mobile game. It was my first application of fully leading a team, and I was given the role due to my good communication skills as well as my time management and my demand for high quality work. It had many challenges such as dealing with a third party client, motivating and managing a small team remotely. This role improved my organizational skills as well as my communication skills when resolving and addressing any issues in production and submission of the game.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

I was given a full contract by Devils Details after my work as a contractor in 2010; my duties were similar but more focused in the test department. I worked on multiple titles which required communications with both Sony and Sega and had to co-ordinate cross company testing and bug tracking. My work with the big corporations we had contracts with improved both my communication skills and my confidence and gave me good experience dealing with big businesses.

Sheffield

I worked at Irwin Mitchell’s in the post room, my jobs were sorting and scanning post, it was a busy environment which involved sorting through large amounts of ingoing and outgoing post and internal documentation. It allowed me to work in a different environment and improve my ability to work in a team.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

At the Dixon’s group call centre I worked as a tech guy, answering calls from customers regarding updates on the progress of repairs and also giving technical advice into the hardware side of computers and televisions. I found the job quite taxing because of the large range of technical enquiries and problems I received but it really has increased my knowledge, so I feel confident in the hardware and software side of computers. I was able to work on my customer services as some calls were very challenging as the customers where sometimes quite irate due to late repairs or possible missing equipment, and it was up to me to try and pacify the customers as well as giving them good advice and a great service. This job taught me a lot about customer services and how to deal with the general public and is something I would like to build more on in the future.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

I had a temporary contract that lasted for two months in the games industry, where I mainly provided test support for the product but also had to work on the overall design and back end documentation. The company was working to very tight deadlines that had to be upheld in order to keep in good reputation with a major publisher (I am currently under a non disclosure agreement, and can’t mention names). I had to ensure that the game was at a good enough state to be sent to external test and that all the documentation matched the flow and playability of the product. Whist working at Devils Details I was tested in many ways, I had to work long hours and weekends to ensure that the product was up to scratch and was at a state where the publishers were happy with the progress. I also had to correspond with external producers to make sure that their creative inputs and designs were being implemented in the correct places to a high standard. I found the hours the main challenge as some weeks it was 7 days a week with long hours, but it was worth it as the product really started to look like the finished article as I was finishing my temporary contract.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

I worked at Zushi Games for 2 years and during that time I had a many different and very varied responsibilities, I was in charge of customer support both in email and telephone queries which helped me greatly develop my communication skills further. Other tasks included creating video footage of our existing titles and editing in Adobe Premiere, the videos were then used in sales meetings to show the quality of the products to buyers, also part of my job was to work on the design of some of our titles from design to development, as well as looking at the test cycles and NOA/NOE lot check process. In the last year of the job I was tasked with creating a concept submission guide to Sony Games for our newest title on the PSN, as well as working on Xbox Concept approval.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

While working for the council I have gained extensive experience in customer service. My main duties involve working a busy reception for the whole of the parks service, dealing with both internal and external enquiries on the telephone and face-to-face. As a result I have learnt to deal with the general public and partner organisations in a professional and confident manner. I have also gained experience in general admin duties. This requires me to prioritise my workload, so I can work around my time spent on reception. I have gained experience in filing, sorting and organizing as well as scanning and faxing documents. I worked in a team that supports the parks department, dealing with all purchase orders, this involves working on the One World Financial System, from the start of the ordering process through to receipt, invoice and payment stage.

Batley, West Yorkshire

I constantly used a large range of graphic design programs in order to create extensive design documentation, which during the development process needed to be constantly changed and updated. There was a constant need to ensure that I remained focussed and paid great attention to detail. I worked closely with other departments including the Lead Programmer and Lead Artist in order to ensure that the product(s) were following the core principals of the design document I also Liased with clients from America multiple times per week, to ensure the project is on the right track, often working through two time zones to ensure delivery of targeted deadlines As well as travelling to America and creating a design face to face with the clients (Mattel Inc). During this two-week period, I and other colleagues secured a financial deal worth $1.25m. We worked under enormous pressure and were flexible with our ideas to ensure that we secured good client relations

Batley, West Yorkshire

Served as a video editor, using the program Sony Vegas to capture edit and render out video files to high standardsResearched and helped design the basic prototypes for games which were used as the core ideas and frameworks for the finished product(s). I also undertook some general test work, which involved extensive out of hours work. I constantly input ideas and recommended changes and improvements, many of which were implemented.