Rory Fitz-Gerald Email & Phone Number

Maryland

Build up and implement game designs from ideation & pitches through polish and bugfix. I have worked with the Dungeons, Live Events, Companions and Zone teams to deliver impactful quests with thoughtful characters surrounded by compelling gameplay and mechanics. From prototyping the companion system to Main Quests.

Boston, Ma

Writing, Art and Design for games.Contributed foundation writing to Deep Silver for the Sacred and Dead Island franchises. Researched and created world narrative for more than 3 major titles published by Deep Silver, including generating historical data, character backgrounds, location details, story elements, and tied the narrative together with existing and new plot.Worked as 3D Artist and Producer for an AR project that was selected for the MIT Sandbox grant program.Have written dozens of game concepts for various platforms, demographics, mechanics, and genres. Patron member of the Game Makers Guild of Boston. Designed board/card games, and submitted to Boston Festival of Indie Games.Created all art and animation assets of several 3D scenes for a music video recreating the opening sequence of 60's cult classic The Prisoner. Completed 3D demo scenes for a prototype beauty product. Handled the entire pipeline - modeling, texturing, lighting, animation and rendering.

Building, configuring and maintaining a broad spectrum of mission critical systems for a New England-based bioscience company. Working on nearly every aspect of an incredibly diverse backend architecture. OSX, Linux, and Windows. LDAP, ActiveDirectory, admin scripting, user account management, dozens of services, scientific software, and responsibility for hundreds of scientific PCs, Windows servers, linux servers, XServe, VOIP phones, Virtual Machines, power supply devices, networking, Netapps, and a host of peripherals.

Assisted the VFX Supervisor processing Dailies, I also contributed as a Junior Artist working in Nuke, Silhouette and Mocha. In addition, also acted as the in-house IT Admin.

Supported VFX staff, absorbed Flame and effects techniques from some of Boston's best VFX artists.

Produced mixed 3d/2d environments and textures using proprietary modeling/morphing technology. Environments were created from high-res panoramic photographs, interiors and exteriors. Created 3d environments, which were then converted for use on an open-world mapping website.

Greater Boston Area

Built and configured linux and Solaris servers of different flavors for a wide variety of clients. Built a robust enterprise client monitoring system from the ground up using Netsaint/Nagios.

Managed dozens of Solaris servers and network devices.

Troubleshooting thousands of end-user desktop computers, and various type of network architecture in the Partners network at Brigham and Women's Hospital and other nearby affiliates.