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Oradea, Bh, Ro

Cluj-Napoca, Cj, Ro

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Lead Unity Developer and co-Project Manager, in charge of developing POC games and virtual experiences for government and corporate clients of Mindflares in Saudi Arabia. Projects include "photorealistic" third-person social games optimized for WebGL and Mobile, gamified training and simulation experiences for VR, interactive holograms, AR (CCG visualizations), and "game-in-game" mini/arcade games.

Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

C#, Unity, Game DevelopmentMy own contracting company which I work through. Also intend to publish games under this banner at some point in the future. Currently working part-time on one of these games, it's an ARPG rogue-lite with survivor-style mechanics and base building.

Bucharest, Romania

C#, Unity, Game DevelopmentWorking on contract through Worldlock Studios for Bugsy World Society. Leading the game development and "gamification" efforts for their metaverse application which will bring together the worlds of gambling, shopping and gaming.Role involves mostly core gameplay conceptualization, design and development, in collaboration with concept artists and Bugsy World Society founder (to meet his vision), and actual systems development (custom character creator, locomotive system, UI, and more).

Romania

Game Design, Writing, C#, Unity, DevelopmentServed as Creative Director on a project for Failfection LLC (contractor) and led a permanent team of five with other contractors coming and going. In addition to being the creative lead responsible for all design documents, briefs, and team guidance, I did the bulk of the gameplay programming, in particular the locomotion (physically based with advanced features such as wallrunning, swinging (grapple), vaulting and climbing), as well as the technical art (shaders, vfx, post processing, PBR materials (substance suite), and the majority of the level design (both in-engine as well as asset/prop design in 3ds max and Zbrush).The project (Arcane Particle) was ultimately put on hold due to financing issues and is still under NDA, however I'm allowed to show it in private to recruiters.

Romania

Working as a full-time freelancer in game design, primarily focused on writing and world-building while also functioning as a creative director, overflow programmer and 3D artist.

County Dublin, Ireland

Worked at Hewlett Packard Enterprise as a Network Engineer. My primary role was providingend-to-end support for our Enterprise customers in all areas concerning our network products andpackages. The role required a comprehensive understanding of networking technologies, routing and switching configurations and relevant typologies, and analytical ability when checking logs or using traffic monitoring tools such as Wireshark.

Hewlett Packard Liffey Park Technology Campus

Advanced Technical Analyst on level 2 team, specializing in the FOT system.The FOT system is the operating system used by our clients PDA's and scanning devices, for which I provided; technical troubleshooting and resolution, hardware orders and replacements, and account creation and maintenance. As Advanced Technical I also provided training, guidance and support to 1st level agents. The responsibility of handling customer dissatisfaction cases and knowledge transfer also came with me from my previous position (as Level 1) to this new role.

Application and Hardware support for Hewlett Packard Enterprise's business clients. Through the course of my time in the role I moved on from being a normal phone agent to being the primary agent responsible for handling user dissatisfaction cases and complaints, as well as coordinating knowledge transfer to new starters and updating our in-house technical knowledge base. I also moved into a backup Coach role and focused on more technically challenging cases.

Narvik, Norway

100% Nightshift receptionist. Responsibilities include: Customer care, sales, fire safety routines, and general paperwork.

- Editing and supervising responsibilities of all editorial and review content. - Author of written, video and audio content for the site totaling in over 150 publications ranging from a weekly industry news show, game and technology reviews, editorials and podcasts.

Narvik, Norway

Customer care, inventory management, sales.

The job consisted of sales and minor managing responsibilities.

Narvik, Norway

Substitute Loader in the LKAB warehouse. Was tasked with organizing and distributing the industrial equipment in the warehouse to the different departments of the site.

Narvik, Norway

Was 15 at the time and worked in sales, it was a simple job but provided for a good first work experience.

Night College, Games Development, 89

Attended Pulse College for a certification in Games Development. The course covered programming (primarily in C#), 2D and 3D visuals.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Engineering

2/3 years of a Bachelor in Computer Science at the Technical University in Narvik. Had to drop out due to family reasons but it ignited my.

Craft Certificate, Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services, C+

Vocational school where I first did a year in Electro-mechanical engineering (welding, fabricating, technical drawing), before moving.