Leandro Kazuo Igawa Ribeiro Email & Phone Number

State Of São Paulo, Brazil

Currently working on my own game projects!

São Paulo, Brazil

I joined Afterverse (PlayKids at the time) to build the game design department from the ground up, and train a team of highly performant game designers. My main resposabilities were to set design directions for PK XD, define the game's roadmap and help each team to deliver high impact changes to our players and stakeholders. For some features (such as the Sticker Book and Pet Evolutions, both major hits) I was also the game designer in charge of drafting, scoping and helping implement design… Show more I joined Afterverse (PlayKids at the time) to build the game design department from the ground up, and train a team of highly performant game designers. My main resposabilities were to set design directions for PK XD, define the game's roadmap and help each team to deliver high impact changes to our players and stakeholders. For some features (such as the Sticker Book and Pet Evolutions, both major hits) I was also the game designer in charge of drafting, scoping and helping implement design specs. Show less

São Paulo Area, Brazil

My mission at Tapps was to lead and guide the game design team to deliver exciting mobile games to millions of players around the world through creative and innovative gameplay systems and mechanics.- Established the game design department- Responsible for the strategic roadmap of the department- Technical support, responsible for high complexity deliveries- Game design coach and mentor, helping other areas within the company to have a better understanding of game design… Show more My mission at Tapps was to lead and guide the game design team to deliver exciting mobile games to millions of players around the world through creative and innovative gameplay systems and mechanics.- Established the game design department- Responsible for the strategic roadmap of the department- Technical support, responsible for high complexity deliveries- Game design coach and mentor, helping other areas within the company to have a better understanding of game design frameworks Show less

Greater Los Angeles Area

As a game designer my focus was to be a champion for the player experience through planning and designing game features, content, rules, challenges and balance changes. Through my journey at Riot I was a member of different agile and highly iterative teams:- League of Legends (PC) - Live Gameplay: Responsible for patch to patch design improvements, game balance, champion update and game clarity. Some projects include mid-season reworks for Syndra and Alistar and game clarity framework… Show more As a game designer my focus was to be a champion for the player experience through planning and designing game features, content, rules, challenges and balance changes. Through my journey at Riot I was a member of different agile and highly iterative teams:- League of Legends (PC) - Live Gameplay: Responsible for patch to patch design improvements, game balance, champion update and game clarity. Some projects include mid-season reworks for Syndra and Alistar and game clarity framework and VFX guidelines / implementation to be used in the spectator mode to help reduce visual noise when watching tournament matches- League of Legends (PC) - Social Play & Meta Games Systems: Systems designer for in-game and in-client social features. Some projects include proposals for a in-game voice chat feature and improvements to the matchmaking algorithm- League of Legends - Wild Rift (Mobile): Early prototyping, gameplay/systems designer. I was part of the earliest team responsible for crafting what would mean to have a mobile version of League of Legends without being a straight up port. That meant deep design explorations around game systems (mana reneration, itemization, power scalling over time, etc) and a redesign of some champions to better fit a game meant to be played on a cellphone Show less

Greater New York City Area

Member of a small design team responsible for the development of board and card game projects in all stages of completion, running playtest sessions and tackling design flaws.Worked on SeaFall, V-Wars and Mountains of Madness.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Customer Logistics Team (Start-up Leader)- Led the development of a new automatic inventory replenishment system (Microsoft VBA)- Trained a team of users on all the operational procedures to keep the system running- Meeting with customers to negotiate and implement the system- Customize the system in accordance with each customer's needs

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Customer Logistics Team (Distributors Channel)- Prototype and early development of a new automatic inventory replenishment system- Analysis of internal and external logistic costs- Review and recommend logistic cost reduction projects- Customer inventory gap analysis and recommendations- Review and recommend inventory reduction with customers

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Customer Logistics Team (HFS Channel)- Developed a new intranet customer logistics discount system- Analysis of internal and external logistic costs- Review and recommend logistic cost reduction projects- On Time and Month End Peak gap analysis- Customer Tail gap analysis

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Game And Interactive Media Design

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Economics

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Eletrical Engineer

Internal transfer to FEA-USP (2006)

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Economics

FEA-USP international exchange program

1-Year Certification, Game Design