Richard M Georgeoff III

Email: richardgeorgeoff@gmail.com USA mobile: 16143254832 China mobile: 8613586510549

Objective: It’s my passion to make awesome and innovative games. I hope to find a creative and productive environment where I can put my game development and programming skills to work adding benefit to a great team and ultimately succeed together creating the best game titles of this generation.

Education:

BS in Computer Science and Engineering - The Ohio State University '14
BA in Mandarin Chinese - The Ohio State University '14

Work Experience:

Need for Seat April ‘15 - August ‘15 Columbus, OH (USA)

-Managed and created new relationships with high profile YouTube/Twitch gamers and the communities.

-Traveled to the Chinese factory, improved product quality, and quickened the production efficiency.

-Represented company at Canton Fair Trade Show in GuangZhou China, and fostered new relationships through effective communication, and business partnership skills.

-Gained management experience, leading warehouse and factory employees in both USA and China.

Aptima Inc. February ’15 - May ’15 Dayton, OH (USA)

-Recruited near the deadline of a government contract project, and given 3 months to finish the game.

-Worked with a small team, and was put in a high pressure environment, where we thrived.

-Gained experience developing applications for IOS and Android mobile devices in Unity3d and C#, and adapting code to their limitations such as low draw call restrictions and input limitations.

-Successfully filtered features down to a manageable amount for the timeline, while retaining clients needs.

Forged Chaos February '14 – March ‘15 Seattle, Washington (USA)

-Game Programmer of a Massive Multi-player Role Playing Game called Trials Of Ascension.

-Managed technical side development of the project from ground zero, paper design to implementation, obtaining startup company experience and learning various do’s and don’ts of new startups.

-Created asset pipeline in cooperation with artists allowing easy integration of assets into Unity 3D.

-Designed and programmed backend network with server region system with Photon Networking, C#, PHP, MySQL, AWS (Amazon Web Services), and customized fluent nHibernate ORM libraries.

-Created collision based melee combat with lag-compensation, modular building system, a playable spider that walks on walls, crafting systems, day night cycles, particle effects, UI, physics, among many others.

-Personally created builds and frequently ran large scale player test for bugs & feedback with the community.

-Experience preparing for a Kickstarter and building a game with a live community.

NightNode Software June '13 – September '13 Stockholm, Sweden

-QA of their new indie title Gravity Wars, released on steam. At the time I had a solid amount of Unity3D & C# experience so I was able to tell them exactly what needed to be done, down to the line of code, to fix a bug.

-Experience with modding, designing mod friendly systems, and testing these systems.

Reality Squared Games January '12 - May '12 ShenZhen, China

-Intern at global game publisher where I tested content, learned about customer service, and account billing.

-I was a forum moderator and a well known in-game GM among the community.

-Studied and learned FTP (free to play) models, and witnessed their success along user retention.

Skills:

C# & Unity3D - over 5 years experience with both Unity3D and C#.
Obtained over 6 years personal game development experience, with more then 2 years of that being in the professional game development environment.
Experience creating admin tools for server statistics, logging, free camera for recording, and more.
Proficient with Visual Studio, Amazon Web Services, SVN/TFS/GIT version control, Photon Networking, Photoshop, phpMyAdmin, FTP software, light CG shader scripting.
Familiar with Reason Audio, Eclipse, Maya, 3ds Max, Code Blocks, Emacs, X-Win 32, and more.
Practiced experience with procedural generation, path finding algorithms such as A*, and other Artificial Intelligence systems.
Multiple experience with outsourcing tasks and management of remote projects from other studios.
Knowledgeable of Agile and experience developing in Agile with 1 and 2 week sprints.
Made a full featured in-game level editor, publisher, and browser for players, using a voxel and stretch system in unity, with a backend of PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, XML, a private web server, & Unity’s WWW class.
Trained in user interface good practices as well as many player experience and retention techniques.
Professional experience working with facial animations, text to speech, and blendshapes for an IOS app.
Experience with all Windows systems and office suites, as well as Mac OSX, Linux and other Unix systems.
I learn things very fast as shown at Forged Chaos; I work well under pressure as shown at Aptima; I am upbeat, exciting, and work great with teams as shown at NEEDforSEAT; and I am very passionate about what I do.

Relevant Experience:

I’m deeply involved in the game development community. I participate in game jams like LudumDare, and completed various hackathons where I won high placing awards. I was also a CA (volunteer) at the Game Development Conference in Los Angeles.
Trials of Ascension Kickstarter video; all in game footage is my work. https://vimeo.com/119278446
Successfully hosted e-sports tournaments of 200+ people with my universities BuckeyeLan. Sponsors of the event include Microsoft, Roccat, Riot games, Logitech, and more.
Previous Twitch.tv streamer with 1300+ followers. I’m good with a community and PR is easy for me.
Attend & lead local game-dev meetings/groups, also former Officer of Game Creators Club at OSU.
Watched over 500 hours of Game Development Conference lecture, on GDC vault.

References information can be given on a request basis