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Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Baldur's Gate 3, design and scripting of:Act 3:- Blushing Mermaid- Hag Survivors- Counting House- Society of Brilliance- Bonecloak Apothecary- Volo's Execution- Djinni's Lamp TrapAct 1: (Improvements and bugs fixing)- Volo in Goblin Camp- Owlbear cave and the vengeful cultists- Grymforge Excavation site- Tortured adventurer in Goblin CampCampers:- Volo- Owlbear Cub

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Titan Quest 2:- Core combat design- Encounter design- Prototyping combat gameplay in unreal blueprints- Creating and tuning player/enemy abilities with unreal Gameplay Abilities System- Creating and tuning enemy AI behaviors via scripting utility AI scoring algorithms- Co-leading a multidisciplinary team (code, animation, design) to deliver first combat prototype

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Projects: SpellForce 3 Journey Mode, Arena Mode, Reforced Campaign (RTS/RPG released on PC, last-gen and next-gen consoles)SpellForce 3: Journey Mode (Role: Lead Content Designer & Scripter):- Designed and scripted all Journey Mode levels (10 missions + 1 big city-HUB) and gameplay systems- Implemented technical setup for all Journey Mode quests and dialogues- Technical level design for all Journey maps - Tuning player progression (experience gain from quests, loot distribution on levels)- Additional writing SpellForce 3: Arena Mode (Role: Co-Lead Content Designer & Scripter, Game Designer):- Balancing player progression from the ground-up- Balancing Encounters and their scaling- Scripting unique arena mode mechanics- Iterating on the mode based on feedback from beta-testers- Writing all Arena Mode specific in-game texts- Collaboratively improving initial level designs of Arena levels together with level designersSpellForce 3: Reforced Campaign (Role: Content Designer & Scripter):- Completely rewriting old scripts of major story-heavy levels, facilitating more enjoyable and bugs-free gameplay- Restructuring quests and dialogues of major story-heavy levels to improve pacing and narrative- Fixing dialogues and quest setup in Articy to eliminate bugs- Creating and fine-tuning cutscenes- Designing and scripting new side content- Fixing in-game texts of dialogues and quests

Projects: Enlisted; Cuisine Royale (FPSs available on PC, last-gen and next-gen consoles)Enlisted (Role: Game Designer - Systems & Content):Design, tuning and implementation in game data:- Playable characters: unique soldier classes that composed various squads, offering different gameplay to players. - Game mechanics (eg. artillery strike, mobile mortars and molotov cocktails): driving new features from initial concept to final polish through coordination of programmers, artists and animators followed by an iterative balancing- Progression systems: various unlockable soldier perks (higher jump height, less vertical recoil, faster crouch movement, etc.), unique squad upgrades (new weapons and soldier classes that could be unlocked by levelling the squad), meta-progression through which players unlocked new squads and in-game shop where players could buy new weapons and soldiers.- Weapons: choice of new weapons to be added based on real WW II weaponry and further fine-tuning in the game, coordination of artists and animators to keep realistic feel to the weaponsGunplay tuning:- vertical and horizontal recoil- rate of fire- damage and its reduction in relation to the distance flown by bullet- reload time- used ammunition and its default amount per weapon- available modifications (sniper scopes, bayonets, grenade throwers)Cuisine Royale (Role: Game Designer - Systems & Content):- Rebalancing of damage and recoil for all weapons, went live with Black Sun update- Choice and balance of new weapons to be added with Black Sun and Heaven's Wrath updates, and integration of them in the existing battle royale weapons drop system- Data management of scopes and weapons

Moscow, Russian Federation

My work was focused on official BMW Group websites on the territory of RussianFederation:- Content management (images, videos, texts, links) through a CMS- SEO-optimisation of advertisement texts- Quality monitoring of external contractors work

Moscow, Russia

Responsibilities:- Face to face sales of used cars - Admission of trade-in cars (price evaluation and mutual approval with a customer)- Placing sales offers of used cars on online market platforms

Professional Masters, Games Development, Gpa: 3,86 - Distinction

The program is among top 10 Game Design graduate programs worldwide according to The Princeton Review

Bachelor'S Degree, International Management

Exchange Student, International Business

Activities and Societies: Finished April 2018 half-marathon in Wien as Frankfurt School representativeStudied Modules: - Economic.