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2002-

Kuju Entertainment Ltd., Sheffield

www.kuju.com

Technical Director
(2002 onwards)

Key tasks

Responsible for
companies technical direction, key
holder for companies technical knowledge, recruitment of staff,
appraisal of projects before, during and after production, guidance
and assistance for all staff, troubleshooting and presentations
to clients.

Project Manager
(2002 onwards)

Key tasks

Team management,
Costing & Budgets, Task assignment, Writing and maintaining
technical & creative documents, Project Schedules, Project
Status reporting, Graduate Training, Recruitment, Staff Appraisals.

Excellent skills
with a variety of MS Office products including MS Project, Word,
Excel, PowerPoint and Access.

Network Administrator
(1996 onwards)

Key tasks

Studio IT support
to maintain a network of 10+ desktop PCs, multiple servers and
Internet connection. Using Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000,
Windows XP. Hardware and software installation and configuration.
Excellent trouble-shooting skills.

Titles Produced

2001-2002

Runecraft Ltd, Dewsbury

Reason for leaving:
All staff made redundant and company ceased trading

ww.runecraft.com

Programmer (2001-2002)

Key tasks

Writing computer
code to specification and schedule. Languages currently used are C++, C, Assembler.

Titles Produced

1991-2001

Krisalis Software Ltd., w:st="on">Rotherham

Reason for leaving:
All staff made redundant and company ceased trading

Creating home
computer entertainment software since 1988, employing over 30
staff. Specialises in converting software between platforms
and original software.

Achievements

• Involved in many upper management
  decisions to direct the company

• Successfully brought numerous
  titles successfully to market
• Consistently exceeded expectations
  to produce strong product to on-time and to specification.
• Excellent customer facing
  skills

• Key member of the team involved
  in initial contract evaluation & negotiation.
• Heavily involved in company
  attainment of ‘Investors In People’ status
• Published written articles
  in MCV, CTW, Edge
  and Official PlayStation magazine.
• Continuously developed personal
  skill set

Technical Director
(1999 onwards)

Key tasks

Responsible for
companies technical direction, key
holder for companies technical knowledge, recruitment of staff,
appraisal of projects before, during and after production, guidance
and assistance for all staff, troubleshooting and presentations
to clients.

Project Manager
(1996 onwards)

Key tasks

Team management,
Costing & Budgets, Task assignment, Writing and maintaining
technical & creative documents, Project Schedules, Project
Status reporting, Graduate Training, Recruitment, Staff Appraisals.

Excellent skills
with a variety of MS Office products including MS Project, Word,
Excel, PowerPoint and Access.

• Recruited and retained over
  66% of current company staff

Programmer (1992
onwards)

Key tasks

Writing computer
code to specification and schedule. Languages currently used
are C++, C, Assembler.

Achievements

• Very varied skill set including
  full 3D engines, A.I., systems software, editors, user interface
  design, localisation and cross-platform development.
• Multiple titles published
  on PlayStation, PC, Saturn, MegaDrive, Amiga and w:st="on">Atari ST.
• Excellent customer facing
  skills lead to me liasing with customers
  directly with no management intervention.
• Started to effectively manage
  projects of my own accord as the time sizes increased until
  the official Project Manager position was created.

Titles Produced

Network Administrator
(1996 onwards)

Key tasks

Maintain a network
of 30+ PCs, 3 servers and Internet connection. Using Linux,
Windows 2000 Server, NT4, Windows 2000, Windows 9x &Windows
Me. Hardware and software installation and configuration. Excellent
trouble-shooting skills.

• All skills are self-taught
  and self-motivated

1991-1991

Vectordean Ltd, Ripley

Small company
of 4 people constructed around developing a single computer
entertainment title.

Programmer

My responsibility
was to produce the MegaDrive version
of the title in development. This involved parallel development
with the Amiga version of the same title and co-designing portions
of the title. Languages used were 68000 Assembler.

Titles Produced

1989-1991

Krisalis Software Ltd., w:st="on">Rotherham

Programmer

Writing computer
code to specification and schedule. Languages at this time were
mostly Assembler, with C being introduced towards the end.

Titles Produced

1988-1989

Wise Owl Software
Ltd.

Programmer

My responsibility
was to interpret intellectual property of the company into a
computer entertainment title for the Commodore Amiga, w:st="on">Atari ST and Atari
2600.

Titles Produced

1987-1988

Alligata Software Ltd, w:st="on">Sheffield

Programmer

My responsibility
was to interpret intellectual property of the company into a
computer entertainment title for the Commodore Amiga and w:st="on">Atari ST.

Titles Produced

Planning & Organisation

• Able to take a long-term
  view and set challenging but achievable objectives
• Decide priorities for attaining
  targets
• Make a plan and arrange
  resources to carry it out
• Draw up a work schedule
  and meet deadlines
• Effectively manage personal
  time and handle a range of activities simultaneously

Communication

• Make good confident verbal
  and written presentations.
• Write well-expressed, concise
  and grammatical documents.
• Good listening and understanding
• Good questioning and considers
  different points of view
• Good negotiating skills
  in order to reach agreement

Team Work

• Recognise and respect the
  attitudes, actions and beliefs of others
• Contribute to the planning
  and co-ordination of a group’s work
• Assist the working process
  of a group by helping resolve conflicts, recognising the strengths
  of others and encouraging them to contribute

Problem Solving

• Analyse, and evaluate complex
  information, identify key issues and principles, and draw
  well-reasoned conclusions
• Think critically, learn
  from mistakes, and make well-supported judgements
• Take a broad view, seeing
  less obvious connections and interdependencies
• Think conceptually and creatively.
  Generate ideas that pay off in practice
• Implement action based on
  the assessment of all available data

Initiative

• Be a "Self-Starter",
  take appropriate action unprompted
• Set demanding personal goals
  and overcome difficulties to achieve them
• Pursue an activity to high
  standard and rise to challenges
• Take well-researched decisions
  quickly

Adaptive

• Respond readily to changing
  situations and priorities
• Recognise potential for
  improvement
• Re-apply known solutions
  to new situations
• Initiate change and make
  it happen: be pro-active not re-active.
• Manage stress and to remain
  effective under pressure

2001

Motorola Mobile, w:st="on">UK

This 2 day event
was to train and inform a select group of developers about creating
software for the next generation of mobile devices such as mobile
phones and PDAs.

1999, 2000

PlayStation2
Developer Conference,
UK

These separate
2-day events (4 in total) were set up by SONY in order to train
developers on using the PlayStation2 to it’s
potential.

The first conference
in 1999 was only open to a very small number of developers that
SONY themselves saw as ‘the cream of the development community’.

1999

Computer Games
Developer Conference,
US

A 3-day international
conference set in w:st="on">San Jose, California.
This was an extremely large conference with over 200 possible
training sessions to attend to over the duration of the conference.
I learned a tremendous amount from this conference and it improved
my skill set in programming and management areas.

1998

Effective Performance
Appraisal – TACK Training

This was a 2-day
course set up specifically for Krisalis
Software in order to prepare its managers for installing, managing
and running a staff appraisal system.

1997

Motivational
Leadership – TACK Training

This was an external
3-day course that taught me how to better motivate members of
staff and how to get the best from teams that were my responsibility.

1997

Managing Projects
Successfully – TACK Training

This 2 day external
course taught me how to plan, schedule and manage a project
from start to finish in an efficient manner.

1996,1997

PlayStation
Developer Conference,
UK

I was chosen to
attend both of these separate 2 day conferences that were set
up by SONY to improve the development communities
knowledge of the PlayStation.

1994, 1995

SEGA Saturn
Developer Conference,
US

These separate
3 day developer conferences were sponsored by SEGA in

w:st="on">San
Jose, w:st="on">California to improve the development communities knowledge of its Saturn games platform.

1986-1987

Rotherham laceType
w:st="on">College

OND – Electronic
Engineering and Computing Technology

Left with partial
credit as personal circumstances forced me to leave the course
early during the 2^nd year.

1986

Hayfield Comprehensive

8 ‘O’ levels