COLIN JANOWICZ Vancouver | [email protected] | (289) 500-2003 QA Professional, Freelance Artist, Game Developer I am a passionate games industry professional, experienced as a lead in small studios, and working in larger teams in AAA and large mobile studios. I am also a self-taught artist and developer with a degree in game design and development. I have close to 10 years games industry experience with a variety of roles credited to me, and span all the way from my first title on WiiWare to Gears 5. I pride myself on my friendliness, eagerness to help, positive attitude, my broad skill set, my variety of experience, and my dedication to my team. EXPERIENCE The Coalition Software Test Engineer 1 Vancouver Working with a large team on Gears 5 post launch Mar 2021 - Present content. Using Fiddler, Unreal 4, Perforce, Jira, Visual Studio, Elgato, NEWT, and several in-house tools. Coordinating with the team, devs, and community service reps to test issues, new content, and new features, as well as updating and documenting practices for future employees. Bioware QA Tester 1 Edmonton Embedded with the Performance and VO department. Sep 2018 - Dec 2018 Feature POC for all voiced audio and branch path narrative content. Nominated for two Biovations by my coworkers for my enthusiasm and eagerness to help out in all departments. Credited on: Anthem (current gen consoles) Gameloft SE Technical Game Analyst Toronto Reported to producer, QA coordinator, and Game Apr 2016 - Apr 2017 Manager. Worked closely with developers and outsource QA to rapidly implement bug fixes. My time at Gameloft saw me working on the following games: Credited on: The Blacklist: Conspiracy (iOS), UNO ™ & Friends (iOS), Disney Magic Kingdoms (iOS) Wicked Interactive LTD (Suba Games) Community Manager/Customer Service/Quality Toronto Assurance Jan 2016 - Apr 2016 Worked to ensure player population satisfaction and growth for a licensed and revived MMO. I handled the customer support tickets, scheduled and ran the community's event calendars and economy, created and managed the marketing and social media content, coordinated with a moderator team to communicate with the game developers, test and implement new patches, and have a friendly public facing persona as well. I also assisted with the running of other MMOs. While working there, I got a major patch out of the QA phase, and enjoyed a 250% increase in DAU. My main game was: Lucent Heart (PC). I also assisted on Dream of Mirror Online (PC) and Ace Online (PC) Stitch Media Lead QA Tester Toronto Worked as sole QA employee on a variety of Jul 2015 - Nov 2015 multimedia projects, involving both mobile applications and HTML5 websites. Credited on: Rival Books of Aster (iOS), Up In Arms.ca (HTML5), Together Tales (iOS and HTML5) Digital Leisure Inc. Game Developer/Lead QA Tester Aurora Ontario Took a variety of roles as needed. I worked there Jan 2008 - Jul 2015 during highschool and throughout university. I have credits working on projects as an artist, level designer, developer, game designer, and video editor. I acted as the lead QA tester on many projects. Some of my credits include: Four Kings Casino and Slots (Steam, PS4), Get Off My Lawn! (iOS, Wii-U, PS4), The Casino and Western Frontier (PS3 Home), Braindead 13 (iOS), Mad Dog McCree (PS3, Wii), Mix Superstar (PS3), Fast Draw Showdown (PS3, WiiWare), Dragon’s Lair - Space Ace - Dragon’s Lair 2 (iOS, Steam, DSi), Mad Dog McCree Gunslinger Pack (WiiWare), Chess Challenge (WiiWare), The Incredible Maze (WiiWare), Texas Hold’em Tournament (WiiWare), and Copter Crisis. (WiiWare) ScanlineCat Freelance Artist/Developer May 2017 - Present I draw artwork for commission, specializing in scenes and characters, twitch emotes and acrylic charm designs. My client satisfaction is always very high, and nearly all of my clients are repeat customers. I take my artistic growth seriously and drill my skills daily. I also develop video games that incorporate my artwork in them. EDUCATION UOIT Game Development & Entrepreneurship 2009 - 2013 Studied game design, art, and programming using all the leading industry tools: Photoshop, Autodesk Maya, 3DS Max, C# and C++. AWARDS Best Original/Experimental Application XMG Studios: Great Canadian Appathon Sep 2012 Won with the game "I Save Princess." https://youtu.be/Mfw4I7HgaHY It was an arcadey puzzle game where the player helped a knight rescue a princess by swiping the tiles of the maze, so that the character would reach the end without touching enemies. SKILLS CONTACT Productivity Software: Jira, Mantis, Confluence, Trello, [email protected] Teams, Slack, Excel (289) 500-2003 Testing Software: Fiddler, Perforce, Git, Xbox GDK, Vancouver Unity, Unreal 4, Visual Studio, NEWT. https://www.scanlinecat.com/ ~10 years industry experience Over 20 credits as lead QA or QA tester Graduated from the Game Design and Development program at UOIT Very friendly, outgoing, communicative, and team oriented. As a customer service rep and organizer, I more than doubled the DAU of an MMO. Self-Taught character artist and digital illustrator My clients are always very satisfied with my art commissions, and I see ~95% repeat business..