Desired Position

Art Director, Art Lead, Game Designer or Senior Graphic Designer

Summary

• Art Director for one of the biggest on-line bingo game networks
• Designed and built Flash-based on-line games
• Designed and constructed web sites for on-line games network and business corporations
• Designed marketing materials, business collaterals, presentations and tradeshow booths.
• Illustrator with 9 years of experience
• Modeled detailed objects and scenes with 2D and 3D graphics packages
• Excellent communication skills, a team leader and a team player. Adapted to working with tight deadlines and multiple projects at the same time
• Experienced in:

Experience

LEADERSHIP & ART DIRECTION

• Ensured art direction stay focused throughout projects and product brandings by creating graphics assets and communicating concepts to art team
• Evaluated graphical layout and user interface design of existing products and applied efficiency and aesthetic improvements
• Worked in a collaborative, team-oriented environment. A mentor to junior graphic designers
• Recognized for creative ideas and brainstorming

VIDEO GAME DESIGN

• Designed on-line bingo games and popular casino games and collaborated with back-end developers and programmers to enrich playability.
• Designed various video lottery terminal slot games (VLT) to appeal to players of different demographic ranges.
• Helped company reach a significantly bigger market share in the in-flight video game business by designing and creating over 10 casual video games in 2 years.
• Designed games for easy localization into different languages.
• Created user-interface, splash screens, icons, 3D objects for video game projects, and prepared documentation of in-game events for programmers
• Worked as a contractor for renowned companies such EA Games, Pop Caps Games, PixelStorm

WEB SITE DESIGN & WEB-BASED PROMOTIONS         

• Designed overall websites and created graphics together with HTML and CSS files for programmer to implement logics
• Created and built web-based promotions, e-mailers, both Flash-based and animated gif banners for media buying specialist

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION

• Expanded company product line by creating HTML-based in-flight electronic travel magazine demo
• Designed user-interface for TV Internet set-top box applications. Ensured TV application design guidelines were met
• Helped sales and marketing department with creation of Director demos

ILLUSTRATIONS

• Created mascot characters for a game company to help brand recognition
• Adaptive to various illustration styles, from youth oriented “cutesy” to mature “cool”
• Specialized in creating gaming icons and video game cabinet casing exterior glass artwork
• Received Merit Award in the category of Illustration from www.Portfolios.com

Relevant Work History

Education

Computer Graphics (Imagery), Apr 97
Seneca College of Communication Arts, North York, Ontario

B. Math. Hons. (Computer Science & Information Systems), May 95
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario