Chinmay Zende LinkedIn: E-mail: [email protected] CONTACT http://linkedin.com/in/chinz Website: http://about.me/feinicks Skype: feinicks Phone: +91 85 510 85503 LINKS Portfolio: feinicks.carbonmade.com/ LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/chinz/ About: http://about.me/feinicks Blog: meandthemeteor.blogspot.com WORK EXPERIENCE Reliance Games/Reliance Big Entertainment UK March 2013 — Present Associate Producer Discuss and coordinate with the Top Management, Producer, and the team leads to allot tasks, and follow up on daily tasks. Conduct daily sprint meetings and assign the tasks for the day. Plan the road-map, and set the timeline for implementation of game features. Provide estimates for game progress, updates and a general time frame. Prioritize feature implementation and tasks as per the current requirement and the plan according to the road-map. Act as a point of contact between different departments and ensure smooth communication flow. Communicate with business teams to ensure a clarity of the game vision. Act as mediator and facilitator for all teams with dependencies. Provide status reports to stakeholders and top management. Participate in budget planning, project road-map, and resource allocation. Participate in game design, art approval process, and bug report. Ubisoft Entertainment India Private Limited Nov 2009 — Mar 2013 Game Designer Be a part of the Core development team to work on new in-house IP, and mandates. Chinmay Zende 1 Collaborate with HQ design team to ensure smooth production. Coordinating with Producer, Artists, Programmers, and Game Testers. Assist the team leads in prioritizing tasks, and follow up on tasks that impact game design. Provide clear documentation, mock-ups and prototypes to clarify game design intent to all teams, varying from business to development team Defining gameplay mechanics, rewards, progression, tutorials, and player retention features. Conducting and analyzing playtests with focus groups and incorporating results into the game design. Producing Game design documents including system mechanics, flow-charts, and signs & feedbacks, etc. Managing localization for 5 languages (EFIGS). Pitch new ideas to Top Management that fit in with current company direction. Preparing pitch documents and presentations. Coordinate with marketing and business teams to ensure proper business model and promotion material. Promote and develop new talent and train them in game design principles. Provide design consultation to other teams, with action plans for quick recovery. Mentor new designers/interns about the followed process, good-practices, and using skills optimally. Ubisoft Entertainment India Private Limited Mar 2009 — Oct 2009 Game Tester Creation of Test Cases and its execution. Performing Smoke Test, Regression Test, Compatibility Test, Usability Test, and Black Box Test depending on project requirement. Reporting, and Tracking of defects entered in Jira Database tool. Reporting daily regarding project status, and the result of the test performed by teammates to the Team Lead. PROJECTS AS ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: CURRENT GAME: Dancing with the Stars (iOS) AS GAME DESIGNER: SHIPPED GAMES CONSOLE Far Cry Classic (Xbox 360) (Release in August) Splinter Cell Trilogy (PS3) Sports Collection (NDS) SHIPPED GAMES MOBILE Prince of Persia Classic (iOS) Prince of Persia Classic (Android) Big Bond Theory (iOS) LAST PROJECT Chinmay Zende 2 Far Cry Classic on Xbox 360 A FPS on PS3 (Currently unannounced) SKILLS |Video Game Design |Gameplay Mechanics|Systems Design |Game Progression and Balance|Player journey|Analysis |Documentation|Content Creation|UI|Story writing |Form and Function |Creative Writing|Sound Design |Interaction design|User Experience|Story-boarding |Mentoring|Presentation and Public Speaking |Basic Photoshop and Flash CS |Photography|MS Office |Production |Game Design Consultation|Resource management INTERESTS Games | Philosophy | History | Technology Guitar | Music | Movies | Sci-Fi | Superheroes | Comics Motorcycles | Travelling | Trekking | Cycling | Automobiles FAVORITE GAMES League of Legends (MOBA) – Been playing this for over 2 years. Defense of the Ancients (MOBA) – Used to play this before LoL Thief 2: The Metal Age Mass Effect Elder Scrolls: Skyrim (Still playing…) Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Diablo series (1 & 2) WarCraft 3: Reign of Chaos Age of Empires Valkyria Chronicles WarHammer 40k: Dawn of War EDUCATION BS in Chemistry June 2005 — April 2008 Fergusson College (affil. University of Pune) Chinmay Zende 3 AISSCE (12th grade under Central Board of April 2004 — March 2005 Secondary Education) K.V. No. 2 J.L.A Bareilly REFERENCES References available upon request. Chinmay Zende 4.