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Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden

Jönköping, Sweden

Consultant Senior UX Designer for companies around Jönköping and Sweden for companies including SKF, Coloreel, Sensys Gatso, Ragnars, and Jönköping University.My roles as a UX Designer has included User Research, System Design, Wireframing and Prototyping using all the latest UX Design tools. I am also experienced testing my designs with users using qualitative and quantitative testingI also worked as a videographer creating E-Learning Videos for software and physical hardware. I lead the production process from start to finish planning, filming, and editing, before adding motion graphing, speech and music to add the final touches.

Jonkoping, Sweden

Consultant Senior UX Designer for companies around Jönköping and Sweden for companies including Coloreel, Sensys Gatso, ITAB and Jönköping University.I continued to work with many of these clients as Cybercom Group merged with Knowit Experience.

Gothenburg, Sweden

Worked as part of a team to design apps for mobile.Taking an app design from start to finish, my role first involved researching and running design workshops with clients to identify the users of the product and working with them to define the app’s features.Once defined, I used an iterative process to first map out the screens and interactions with flowcharts, before creating wireframes to handover to an artist and building prototypes to test functionality and demonstrate it to the client.

Falköping, Sweden

During my 6 month Praktik at The Farm I positioned myself between the developers and clients to improve their productivity and the quality of apps they were creating.This included testing apps already in development and providing design solutions when needed, improving documentation delivered by clients, and making artwork easier to implement with style guides, prototypes, and using Zeplin to ensure developers could recreate designs accurately.

Gothenburg, Sweden

Senior Gameplay Designer on "Need for Speed Rivals" (Playstation 4, Xbox One, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360) Working as part of a team of Game Designers I was responsible for designing and implementing the game’s vehicle weapons. Gameplay features were documented in Atlassian Confluence before being approved and handed over for development. Features were then implemented into EA’s Frostbite editor which we used to tweak and balance the gameplay until release.Created the Systems Design for connecting players to EA's Origin Servers and launch “Need for Speed Rivals’” asynchronous multiplayer sessions. Assisted with the design of the Need for Speed Network Application and Overwatch, allowing users with mobiles and tablets to interact with players on console and PC. Worked with the Audio Director to write and manage the game’s Voice Over Script. Took responsibility for managing all in-game text during Beta, proactively finding bugs and making changes where required.

Gothenburg, Sweden

Writing and maintaining the Game Design for the development of “Race Room Racing Experience”, at first using Microsoft Word before instigating a change to a wiki using Atlassian Confluence ensuring better communication and collaboration throughout the team.Designed the game's menu system and the flow users would take from launching the game choosing a car and track, then entering a race with other players.Oversaw the visual design of the user interface and its creation by the team's programmers and artists ensuring it met the Creative Director's vision.Collaborating with the Creative Director and Graphic Designers to produce High Concept and Sales Documents.Working closely with the Development team and Creative Director to solve day to day design issues, while retaining the goals for the project.

Bordeaux, France

Lead Game Designer on J2ME and EXEN mobile handsets, working with original and licensed IP with internal teams and external companies worldwide. Adapting licensed games from PC to mobile taught me how to capture the essence of an IP, distilling it down to its core elements so the most important features were not lost when translated to platforms that were less powerful.Created game design documents in English for production and licensor approval, focusing on making them easy to understand by non-native English speakers.Worked closely with development and marketing to ensure games were innovative and feasible within the constraints of mobile, while making them appealing to gamers.Published Games"Neopet Mobile" (IMGA 2006 Nominee for Most Innovative Game, Best Interactive Experience, Best Use of Connectivity)"Line Rider Mobile" (IGN Editor's Choice)"Zoo Tycoon 2: Marine Mania" (Mobilegamefaqs Gold Award)"Age of Empires 2 Mobile" (Best Strategy Game of 2005)

Stockton On Tees, United Kingdon

Producer and Designer on the conversion of "Defender of the Crown" from Playstation 2 to Xbox and PC, managing the team from day-to-day and adapting the controls and menus from gamepad to mouse. This project gave me a great deal of experience working across timezones with our development team in the UK and the publisher based in California.Lead Designer on a number of Pioneering turn-based strategy mobile games for WAP Mobile Phones, creating al Game Design Documentation, and designing and balancing the Battle System.Game Designer on "Zapper : One Wicked Cricket", adapting the original Playstation 2 Game Design to Gameboy Advance and designing many of the levels.

Stockton On Tees, United Kingdom

Implementing gameplay in the PC version of "ShadowMan", before supervising the cutdown of levels and rebalancing of gameplay for the PSone and Nintendo 64 versions which had to be reduced in scale because of limited resources.The game has since become a classic and a remastered version was released in 2021 for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and Playstation 4 by Nightdive StudiosAssisted in the creation of documentation and presentations for a number of unreleased projects.