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Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Narrative design, writing and game design for economic-focused historical grand strategy title Victoria 3. Studio purple.

• Award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy. For full publication history and further details please see www.cwinspear.com Novels:
• Advocate
• All for Birth
• The Lightreaders (Winner of Writing NSW Varuna fellowship)
• Nights Under the Sun
• America and America (coming soon)Published Short Stories:

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

• 11-bit studios has won several awards for This War of Mine and Frostpunk. While chiefly assigned to the development of Frostpunk 2, duties also extended to The Alters and an unannounced project.
• Designed and wrote the narrative of the Frostpunk 2’s main scenario, including its branching structures, core themes and pacing, in co-ordination with directors and gameplay leads.
• Designed narrative and gameplay for “the frostland” focusing on difficult, emotional choices.
• Advised the Narrative Lead and Creative Director on the game’s theme, plot and characters (factions), and seamlessly iterated and revised material according to their direction.
• Implemented, tested and bug-fixed the narrative systems and branching within Unreal.
• Produced clear and succinct UX/gameplay text, as well as style/lore guides for other teams.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Regional, Delivery and Safety (RDS) IT supports three of Transport for NSW divisions: Infrastructure and Place, Safety and Regulation, and Regional and Outer Metropolitan. My current role:
• Designed "personality" of new state-of-the-art employee assistant bot.
• Supports senior IT leadership with advice and strategies for internal communications, employee engagement and client engagement.
• Reinvigorates existing communications channels including messages from the CIO, SharePoint content, “getting to know” new starter campaign, and high-level project reports.
• Initiates Client Engagement strategies, including collection and analysis of performance data from the CIO Business Vision Survey, targeting senior leadership across client divisions.
• Provides selected campaigns, including Contractor Central, with change communications.

• The End-User Applications team maintains and analyses data from Transport multimillion-dollar construction projects.
• Enhanced 100s of pages of digital content supporting the team’s 10 different applications into a single, user-centric experience.
• Rapidly developed a “one stop shop” SharePoint site for all support, user guides and news.
• Supported leaders with change comms and a stakeholder management strategy.

• The Digital Communications team governs and maintains best practice across Transport for NSW’s digital communications channels, including its corporate website, intranet, employee portal and livestream events. Supports.
• Trained 100s of communications professionals in content systems and digital best practice.
• Delivered a new state-of-the-art portal for Transport’s 32,000+ staff, to replace several existing intranets.o Simultaneously managed dozens of stakeholders from different business units to edit and approve their.

• A multi-disciplinary team was seconded from various functions of Transport NSW into its COVID-19 Taskforce to react swiftly and decisively to new restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Rapidly implemented a new Livestream channel across the entire Transport Cluster, allowing senior executive to address staff through live interactive broadcasts throughout the crisis. The channel was so well received.
• Delivered crisis comms to Transport’s 32,000 staff during the first Sydney lockdown.
• Directly advised the Secretary and Chief People Officer with speaking points, analysis of employee engagement metrics, and strategies to maximise engagement.

Tasked with the strategic planning of the new Livestream communications channel across the Transport Cluster. Tested and developed the channel with all Transport NSW frontline agencies and implemented the first livestream in anticipation of COVID-19.

Sydney, Australia

• Entailed frontline and corporate communications (including digital and graphic content) for a range of external and internal channels from the company newsletter to their corporate website.
• Professionally delivered change communications during the announcement of State Transit’s privatisation and its implications for staff.
• Successfully lifted moral through the Be the Best you can Be employee engagement program, as demonstrated by a measurable return in the organisation’s performance benchmarks (including On Time Running and Customer.
• Produced communications plans and graphical content for the Take Five safety campaign, which successfully reduced lost-time injuries of maintence staff by more than 25%.
• Supported the external media team’s events, including a safety-focused press conference with Hollywood star Kevin Hart.
• Launched the social enterprise app Blink, which analytics and surveys indicated became the most effective communications channel for State Transit’s frontline workforce.

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for operation of 3-5 axis mills in a manufacturing environment. Includes programming, set-up, tool management, operation and maintenance. Machines include Mori Seiki mills from 1980 to current model. Also performed workshop operations, design and administration.

Sydney, Australia

The CAM team is responsible for preparing 3D design files for 3D printing and customer support. The design files can come from Palloys internal design department or external clients. The files must be altered in such a way that they will progress through both 3D printing and casting. Currently, files are individually altered through rhino. I pushed for.

Rochester, New York Area

• CAD/CAM Lead Designer. Legendary Auto Interiors, Upstate New York, USA. Jan 2016- Feb 2017.Legendary Auto Interiors produces interior parts for the automobile industry, specialising in custom parts and replica products.
• Hired and trained two direct reports to establish the company’s new R&D department.
• Led the team to develop world-first camouflage interior products for the US market.
• Delivered continuous improvements to existing business practices and design processes, saving the company $10,000’s through use of technology and improved ways of working.

Sydney, Australia

• Founder, Manifester 3D Printing and Design Workshop. July 2013 ¬– Dec 2015Manifester was an innovative start-up specialising in design work, 3D printing and rapid prototyping.
• Developed all marketing materials – the company website (manifester.com.au), digital marketing campaigns (including Google AdWords) and physical models/merchandise.
• Cultivated an international network of suppliers with multi-million-dollar state-of-the-art rapid manufacturing technology for key projects, such as:
• Utilised point cloud data from surface scans to 3D print a replica of the NSW State Fossil, Mandageria fairfaxi, for the Australian Museum. The fossil now hangs in NSW Parliament.

Sydney, Australia

Brainworth was an educational start-up seeking to provide a platform and accreditation system to support small educational games. The UI displayed each level of a game as an island which must be completed before the other before the user could progress to other levels (islands) and eventually earn mastery of a field. The students own learning was thereby.

Sydney, Australia

Performed a range of drafting, operational and logistical work for the small Sydney architectural studio. Included contributions to residential and small commercial projects. Produced design documentation and the preparation of marketing and DA materials. Also produced photo-realistic renderings, including material for the Lodge on the Lake and the.

Sydney, Australia

OCDM specialises in the design and prolonged maintenance of commercial spaces. Duties included: Assisting and organising tradespeople, general maintenance of workstations, moving staff, basic IT operations, inventory, basic office and design work. Ensured what exists on the office plans are correctly implemented in reality. Large projects include.

Provided over-the-phone customer-support and marketing for the client, O’Brien’s Glass.Duties included: Customer service, co-ordination of tradesman (glaziers),sales, general office work, team communication, complaint management.

Masters Of Creative Writing, Creative Writing

Cert Iv Of Small Business Management, Business Administration And Management, General, A+

Activities and Societies: Delivered by Mission Australia as part of the NEIS program 2013. NEIS is a government initiative designed to.

Bachelor Of Design, Architecture

Activities and Societies: Fencing

Bachelor Of Design, Architecture, A

Activities and Societies: Winner of Cheung Kong Endeavour Australia Scholarship Member of Yonsei Exchange Students Alumni 2 Semesters of.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Cadets: Warrant Officer Class II. Duke of Edinburgh: Bronze Medal.