John Kinzel Email & Phone Number

Middleton, Wi, Us

Middleton, Wisconsin, United States

I take blocked out levels and make them look pretty. My job entails, and I excel at, working constantly with designers and concept artist to bring 3D game environments to life in such a way that promotes not only artistic excellence, but also AAA quality gameplay experiences.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Middleton, Wisconsin

I was chosen to join the Tech Team, a small team responsible for testing the technical side of development. This encompassed multiple projects, both announced and unannounced. For Black ops IV, I worked with the team to create performance reports for the Blackout gamemode. This required use of in game tools and Excel to generate reports that are sent to the developers. This enabled the developers to get the gamemode to run largely at 60FPS, which is an incredible achievement with a map that size.My other duties encompass unannounced projects. They include:Working with Perforce to compile and test potential changes for developers before they're submitted.Testing of tools and code bases during Engine integration and merging.Working with and testing in-house tools to find bugs and streamline the development pipeline.And lots more.

Middleton, Wisconsin

I was hand picked to move to the QA PC team, where we worked on the PC SKU. My platform of choice was the PC so this was a great experience for me. Using my knowledge of PC gaming, I was able to write PC specific bugs that improved the PC experience. These included control related bugs and even bugs that required very specific combination of graphical settings. At one point I was assigned to find a GPU related bug with an already shipped map that required 2 weeks of solitary play testing to solve.I enjoyed this project tremendously due to working on my preferred platform.

Middleton, Wisconsin

I worked as a part of the functional QA team, which was responsible for main bulk of bug reports.A large part of this work was assisting with the development of the War gamemode. This included finding map and gamemode related bugs, where I consistently had one of the highest daily bug counts.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

I help customers purchase PCs that will assist them in every day life.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

I assisted the office with tech support, and data entry. I also was responsible for instrument sterilization and distribution.

I interned at Mobile Mesh Games, a game developer in Whitewater, Wisconsin. I researched projects on the R&D side and experimented with various video rendering and programming concepts.