Jorge Salgado Email & Phone Number

Welcome to my LinkedIn profile and thank you for stopping by. Below you'll be able to get glimpse of who I am in the games industry. For any questions, about this or my other professional endeavors, don't hesitate to get in touch - I'm always eager to learn about, and be part of, great enterprises.I'm an award-winning Design Director with over 18 years of experience in the field, including fourteen years developing games professionally with several AAA titles shipped, and a recognized author of mods.I'm currently Design Director, Assoc. at High Moon Studios, where I oversee design of our SP Campaign work and also on a MP game mode for the upcoming COD: Modern Warfare 3. Before this, I was HMS' Lead Level Designer in COD: VanguardPreviously, I worked as Lead Area Designer on Obsidian Entertainment's Project Avowed from late 2018, after helping a very talented and focused team with the gameplay and level design foundation of Grounded (2020), capping a successful string of titles with this beloved studio.My professional titles are:- COD: Modern Warfare 3 as Design Director, assoc.- COD: Vanguard as Lead Level Designer- Grounded as a Senior Designer (early development role in 2018. Rel: July 2020)- Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire as a Senior Area Designer (88% Metacritic. Rel: May 2018)- Pillars of Eternity: The White March Part I and 2 (Rel: 2015 and 2016, respectively)- Pillars of Eternity as a Senior Area Designer and Additional Writer (89% Metacritic. Rel: March 2015)- South Park: The Stick of Truth as a Level Designer (85% Metacritic. Rel: March 2014)- Fallout: New Vegas DLCs: Dead Money, Honest Hearts and Lonesome Road as a Area Designer (2011)- Fallout: New Vegas as a Area Designer (84% Metacritic. Rel: October 2010)My modding experience extends all the way from my award-winning mod for The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul (over 1 million downloads and GameSpy's Mod of the Year 2006) to 1998, where I started by designing levels for Jedi Knight 2. In between, I designed, built and popularized levels for the likes of Unreal, Rune (Honorable Mention in a Human Head studios' competition) and The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind.I've designed critically acclaimed areas in every title I've shipped, implementing them with a high level of polish and stability from pre-production phases to final product, while collaborating with all other departments in honing our goals, pipelines and assets. I now direct and lead development of next generation titles through proven Design, Project Management and Interpersonal skills.

Listed skills include Creative And Analytical Thinking and Game Engine Toolsets.