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Royal Leamington Spa, Gb

Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom

Currently working on User Experience focused improvements.- Providing UI/UX direction and backing up design decisions by delivering relevant quantitative and qualitative research as part of the process.- Resolving design conflicts and filling information gaps early on by navigating features from different user perspectives and creating flow breakdowns of complex game design systems.- Help aiding devs in implementation of UI/UX features by delivering animated prototypes (POCs or test branches with the new changes applied).- Uncovering and validating the best choices, tailored towards our end users, by conducting user testing (AB, Tree testing, timed testing etc.) with selected representative focus groups.- Understanding and empathizing with our users through creating user surveys and analysing the collected data, which are turned into graphs with in depth comparisons.- Making sure the UX is a well understood pillar of the product; by further defining the customer we are designing the product for, through creating user personas based on research and survey data. - Able to clearly communicate ideas and information by successfully presenting design documentations and data to the dev team, company, clients as well as upper management/C levels.

London, England, United Kingdom

- Applied latest trends to update the UI in existing games.- Provided concept art and high quality animated POCs for game pitches.- Added polish and highlights to existing UI assist through the creation and subsequent use of UI shaders and materials, as well as particle effects.

Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom

- Extensively learned how to implement 2D art assets in Unity.- Provided documentation of the Lemmings Planets pipeline.- Onboarded juniors and other artists on the pipeline.- Successfully released 20+ planets for Lemmings under my supervision.- Updated monthly release tracker sheets to make sure work would be ready in time for each release.- Created and managed Jira tickets.- Regularly updated management about the progress of all tasks.

Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

My day to day tasks consist of providing the team with 2D/UI art assets, animation mock ups, 3D render paint overs, UX design, UX prototyping in Adobe XD, 2D/UI implementation and optimization in Unity. Games I am actively working on are: Dancing Diaries, Dancing With The Stars, Angry Birds Transformers, and a couple of game prototypes and pitches. I self manage my tasks across the different projects and regularly update the team and management on the progress. Skills I am currently developing are Unity Animation, and Unity packages like Shader Graph, VFX Graph and UI builder.

Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

During this time, I mostly worked on Dancing Diaries, a match 3 game aimed at women aged 25-45, providing 2D concepts for match 3 blockers, UI design (buttons and icons), learning about art asset implementation/optimization in Unity, managing tasks for the art team, overseeing the progression of outsourced art assets by providing feedback and by tracking each individual submitted object.

Birmingham, Verenigd Koninkrijk

Echoes is a third person hack and slash PS4 game. During the early stages of development, I was responsible for creating concept art of the environment . I was later promoted to lead environment artist during the prototype phase and then further promoted to art liaison during the production phase where I took on a more management related role.

For my first few months with the studio, I worked on a portable tablet game (for android devices). During this time, as a 2D concept artist and general 2D artist, I was responsible for creating the assets and visuals for the first 5 levels of the game (the entire game consists of 10 levels). The game can be downloaded (for free!) at the google play store.

Master'S Degree, Master Of Arts Game Development, Distinction

Bachelor'S Degree, Illustration, First