Tom Field Email & Phone Number

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

I was employed as a Junior Designer for the final days of Zombie Army 4, helping with the polish and bugfixing stages post-release. I also took on a leading design role for the Weekly Events.I acted as a Designer for Sniper Elite 5, working on several aspects of the game, including Traversal, Tutorials, and the much-vaunted Invasion Mode.I'm now an Experienced Designer on the early stages of our next project.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

I was employed as a House-Parent at CATS College in Cambridge, helping to keep our population of ~250 teenagers safe and happy, and support the school in giving them a top-class education.- Maintain strong relations with the student population, acting as a friendly and supportive presence for students having life difficulties, homesickness, or bereavement. - Monitoring student health, welfare and whereabouts, maintaining high standards of student welfare and care.- Planning, running and supporting fun evening and weekend activities for the students.- Experience working with large diverse teams, working long and unsociable hours (currently I'm working night shifts from midnight to 10am), and working with people from all over the world, some with limited commands of english.- Experience building strong supportive relationships quickly.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

I lead the design process and level design at Polyfox, an indie games company based in Cambridge, UK. Just recently we released our first game, Locomotion, which was applauded for being fun and challenging, with great puzzles.- Designed fifty-two levels for Locomotion.- Lead the design process for train movement, puzzle mechanics, and game mechanics such as rewards and level skipping.- Lead the process of testing, iterating, and refining the game, including both private beta testing and public QA tests with large groups.- Wrote the game plot and dialogue.

I was first a staff and then a senior staff member for TF2Maps.net, the leading place online for Team Fortress 2 level design and development. I lead several contests and events, moderated our forum and chatroom, and lead testing for hundreds of maps.- Volunteer Staff member for leading Team Fortress 2 level design forum. Moderated forum (20,000+ members) and community chatroom. - 5+ years’ experience as hobbyist level designer and key community member. - 4 levels personally completed to high gameplay quality. - Organised and judged level design contests (http://tinyurl.com/2skillsets) and game jam with 500+ entries (goo.gl/qr5vNy) Represented community as paid liaison for significant Team Fortress 2 intra-community update (http://www.teamfortress.com/invasion/)- Coached newer members in technical/design skills. Critiqued and guided many projects.- Gained experience working on large projects and with global teams, skills in giving and analysing feedback, and managing large groups in emotionally charged situations.- Guided the community development, and helped change the site to be more helpful, welcoming, and progressive, contributing to making us a diverse and safe space for the TF2 community.

Peterborough, United Kingdom

I worked as a sales associate at GAME in Peterborough over the summer, mostly working on the sales floor and stocking shelves. It was a great opportunity to work at the sharp end of computer games, with great opportunities to discuss with people outside the industry what they felt they wanted from their games - and to help people find their next favourite console or title.

Amersham, Uk

• Year’s internship in Service Delivery team at major global business, supporting critical applications and processes.• Drove innovation to improve business processes. Simplified presentation of organisational data, prioritised analysis of application support data.• Developed group and project work skills, experience with data analysis, and experience of large-scale and high-pressure work.• Significant projects include:--- Application Vitality – large-scale data compilation and analysis project. Reduced time taken by 50% yearly via process simplification, reported to CIO level. Drove remediation & funding processes.--- XP Remediation – oversaw project to replace all Windows XP machines. Managed global team, completed with zero process downtime, reported to CEO level. Produced report to direct 5+ years legacy management.--- Application Metrics, analysing large quantities of application issue data to identify key areas for improvement both in app issues and data-gather process.

Cambridgeshire, Uk

• Several years volunteering for local youth theatre group. Worked first in and then leading backstage teams. Wrote and directed short plays. • Resolved onstage and offstage problems under high pressure to strict deadlines. Motivated large groups of young performers (25+, ages 5-18)• Mentored and advised other young directors.

Master Of Science (Msc), Computer Games Design (Technology), Hons.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Physics And Computer Science, First-Class Degree

Activities and Societies: Nomadic Players Drama Society, Broadways Theatre Society, Pantomime Society (Director), English & Creative.

Education record

I attended Neale-Wade, a secondary school/sixth-form in Cambridgeshire. A levels: Physics C, Maths A, ICT Distinction (A* Equivalent).