Denis Phoenix Email & Phone Number

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

• Producing Epic's Games Unreal Engine's Pixel Streaming feature - ticketing, running sprints, road mapping sessions, stand ups, updating stakeholders
• Working on other Unreal Engine features and components development
• UE QA and testing - running repros on reported bugs and liaising with developers on fixes, reporting and ticketing bugs and issues, triage and prioritization
• Updating official UE documentation and user guides on the UE docs and GH repositories
• Producing Scalable Pixel Streaminghttps://github.com/DenisTensorWorks

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Narrative editor for Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
• Designed, wrote, and published a multi-award winning solitaire narrative dice-driven adventure Alchemist’s Apprentice
• Juror for video game entries across all categories at PAVS ‘24 - provided ranking, feedback, and voted for awards winners
• Judged video game entries at PAVS ‘21, ’22 and '23, Kiwi Game Starter '22, AGDA '23 - playtested betas, vertical slices, and RCs, collated feedback and provided ratings
• Judged tabletop game entries for Australian TMM '23 and '24 TGDA competitions
• Presented at NZGDC ’21, '22 and '23 in Game Design and Narrative streams

• Franchises include: Assassin's Creed, Fable, Forza, ANNO 1800, Zoo Tycoon.
• Editing target narrative strings - rephrasing and enhancing narrative, correcting reference and glossary inconsistencies, adjusting flow of sentences, ensuring stylistic consistency, correcting grammatic, spelling.
• Translating in-game narrative, quests, descriptions, lore, dialogues, web-site articles, blog and social media posts, video subtitles, FAQs

• Writing lore for the in-game world; compiling visual and narrative briefs and realia references
• Liaising with stakeholders to create the pre-production roadmap for a multiplayer PvPvE shooter game in Miro/Invision; defining priorities and timelines.
• Creating and managing production pipelines
• Managing issues, workflows and backlog in Jira; running sprint planning and roadmapping meetings.
• Aligning the team’s vision, defining MVP and vertical slice requirements as well as RC features and translating them into tickets and QA definitions.
• Providing input into game design mechanics and level design

• Worked with software and hardware delivery - project management and road mapping via Jira across multiple teams of engineers, operations, senior management and sales; backlog scoping and roadmapping
• Identfied, prioritized, and realizes new product opportunities across new animal species and satellite technologies
• Provided technical specifications and documentation to stakeholders, R&D and operations
• Created and managed customer-facing and internal product documentation

• Designed, created, and implemented story-state-driven applications for technical documentation and work flows in Production via PowerApps
• Designed and prototyped wireframes for internal applications, provided feedback on UX for external applications
• Conducted quality checks and inspections in manufacturing and on returned goods, compiled reports, proposed and implemented product improvements
• Managed Technical Services Team via Kanban boards and Trello
• Drove innovative approaches within team and operations
• Conducted team training, coaching, and leadership

Havelock North, New Zealand

• Provided engineering support for existing products operating via satellite systems and RF and creating the production infrastructure for new projects
• Worked with the engineering team - built prototypes, tested released firmware and hardware, R&D of new products, pilot stuides
• Worked on fault finding and RCA on returned units and production faults
• Continuous improvement in Production
• QC and QA in Operations
• Liaised with customers – remote troubleshooting, data analysis, product functionality issues and configuration assistance

• Translated, wrote, and edited in-game narrative strings, quests, descriptions, dialogue, lore, media posts

• Projects include: Dota 2, The International, Team Fortress, Steam, Portal 2 DLC, CS:GO
• Translated and edited game strings, blog posts, STS
• Moderated translations on STS
• Performed localization QA and playtest

• Projects include: Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Dig it!, Fireworks simulator.
• Translated in-game strings, quests, descriptions, dialogues, web-site articles, blog and social media posts, video subtitles, FAQs
• Performed in-game testing and localisation QA

• Projects include: World of Warcraft, Diablo, Battle.net
• Translated and edited in-game narrative, quests, descriptions, dialogues, web-site articles, blogand social media posts, video subtitles, FAQs

Bryansk, Russia

• Taught and coached beginner, intermediate and advanced students.
• Planned lessons, organised learning materials, conducted research.
• Helped organise extracurricular activities for the students.

Bryansk Oblast, Russia

• Produced technical documentation: BOMs, drawings, circuits, manuals, etc. via via Kompas-3D™ CAD tool
• Designed, prototyped, tested, and analysed the performance of multilayer nano-component ICs and PCBs via CAD tools PAROM™, Microchip™, OrCAD™
• Handled programming tasks for microcontrollers via Assembly language
• Worked on plasma-enhanced radiation hardening and X-ray inspections.
• Tested and measured parameters and performance of printed components and circuit boards
• Worked hands-on - soldering electronic components, populating PCBs, etc.

• Translated, edited, and published cybersports news, articles and blog posts.
• Coordinated teams of translators, editors and graphic designers.
• Curated website content, wrote game guides and community posts.

Specialization, Game And Interactive Media Design

Specialization, Creative Writing

Specialization, Game Design And Development With Unity

Pdge, Linguistics And Teaching Rsl

Be(Hons), Humanities, Microelectronics And Solid-State Electronics, Mathematics