Oded Saar Email & Phone Number

Small team developing a hyper-casual mobile game.

• Leading and coordinating development of engagement and retention enhancing features in live-service games.

• Developing and maintaining virtual world features.
• Developing mini-games.
• UI development and integration.

• Designing and writing point-and-click adventure games:► Bolt Riley – A Reggae Adventure Game (released April 2016)
• Designed, wrote, edited and prototyped interactive story-lines, dialogs and puzzles.
• Supervised a small team of designers and writers. ► Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded (canceled)
• Researched, designed and implemented development tools during pre-production.

Petah Tikva Area, Israel

• Visual and performance QA for Exent's Games-On-Demand services.
• Responsibility for the quality of games being released to major international clients.
• Sole responsibility of backtracking the entire game catalog for compatibility issues.
• Researching and documenting technical problems.
• Translating games from English to Hebrew.
• Training new team members for quick integration into the work-cycle.Testing many casual titles, from famous best-selling brand name series to low-quality clones, afforded many research opportunities – analyzing what.

Tel Aviv Area, Israel

• Designing, writing and developing an episodic point-and-click adventure game: ► Pizza Morgana – Episode 1 (released August 2009)
• Developed and wrote interactive story-lines, dialogs and puzzles.
• Prototyped and programmed gameplay.
• Supervised a team of programmers, designers and writers.
• Designed, created and edited 2D and 3D art assets.
• Designed, created and edited sound effects, music loops and character voices.

Tel Aviv Area, Israel

Various day-to-day tasks of mining, organizing and analyzing of content & promotions, coordinating department cooperation and knowledge sharing, small-scale QA of our products and 'Business Intelligence' of competing companies.In charge of many dedicated tasks which require great responsibility and attention to details.

Tel Aviv Area, Israel

• Technical support and customer service at Cyhawk Ltd., for various online products and services. In addition, my work included several 'Business Intelligence', QA and Content Writing tasks, such as:
• Collecting and documenting information concerning competing technologies
• Running various tests of web applications
• General documentation and bug documentation of web applications
• Writing User's Manuals & Help Sections for web applications
• Writing informative articles for marketing websites

Tel Aviv Area, Israel

• In addition to my Customer Support position, I functioned as an Account Manager in the subsidiary company AdsMarket, which operates a performance based Affiliate Network. As an Account Manager I was in charge of:
• Finding potential customers on the web
• Creating business relationships with potential customers
• Walking customers through the registration, setup and financial stages
• Day to day technical support and marketing consulting for customers

Tel Aviv Area, Israel

Translating documents and theses for students from out-of-country university branches and translating professional / technical documents for Shahar Assistance, Ltd.

Tel Aviv Area, Israel

• Senior Technical Support person with AT&T Global Network Services, which offers international communication services.Beyond the regular task of producing solutions for Internet related software and hardware problems.
• Working with out-of-country company sections as the Helpdesk representative in Israel.
• An administrative position concerning financial services for private customer accounts and monetary refunds, which included using various credit card and invoice processing systems.