Akira Thompson

Past

• QA Tester at Treyarch
• Co-Founder at Tandem Co-Op
• QA Tester at Activision

• Gallery Director at Tandem Co-Op
• Freelance Animator at Centromere Media
• Character Designer at News at Seven Inc
• Director at ClockWork Oxen
• Equipment Specialist at Columbia College Chicago
• Intern at ChewBone Animation
• Specialist (E-4) at United States Army Reserve

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Education

• The Drawing Workshop
• Columbia College Chicago

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Industry

Computer Games

Websites

• My Website

Akira Thompson’s Experience

• QA Tester

  Treyarch

  (Public Company; ATVI; Computer Games industry)

  May 2009 — September 2009 (5 months)

  As a QA tester at Treyarch my responsibilities include:
  - Locating software bugs
  – Reporting of software bugs
  – Verifying issues cross platform
  – Verifying fixed issues
  – General play testing of game software
  
  Projects include:
  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare: Reflex for the Nintendo Wii

• Co-Founder

  Tandem Co-Op

  (Fine Art industry)

  July 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 1 month)

  Located in Chicago, IL Tandem Co-Op was created in the spirit of collaboration by myself and two business partners.
  Tandem was a co-working and art space for musicians, artists, and engineers alike. Tandem was closed closed in June of 2009 so that the founders could move on to other projects.

• QA Tester

  Activision

  (Public Company; ATVI; Computer Games industry)

  February 2009 — May 2009 (4 months)

  As a QA tester on Transforemers: Revenge of the Fallen for Xbox360 and Playstation 3 my duties were the following:
  - Location of software bugs
  - Reporting of software bugs
  - Play testing game software
  – With direction from the Lead directing the testing of multi-player modes
  - Organizing testers to further explore multi-player issues

• Gallery Director

  Tandem Co-Op

  (Fine Art industry)

  July 2008 — January 2009 (7 months)

  My duties as the gallery director included the following:
  - General operations management
  - Event planning and scheduling
  - Talent scouting and booking
  - Marketing and PR
  - Resource and budgetary management

• Freelance Animator

  Centromere Media

  (Media Production industry)

  January 2008 — May 2008 (5 months)

  I worked with the producer and musician at Centromere in order to create an animated promotional music video. My duties included:
  - Development of storytelling imagery
  - Generation of all art assets

• Character Designer

  News at Seven Inc

  (Internet industry)

  July 2007 — January 2008 (7 months)

  While at News at Seven I worked in a production environment with a group of engineers in order to generate a set of characters for a Internet news show. This entailed:
  - Generation of character concept art
  - CG Modeling and animation of characters
  - Working directly with programmers to ensure a smooth pipeline

• Director

  ClockWork Oxen

  (Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Animation industry)

  September 2006 — May 2007 (9 months)

  Production company formed for student film. In association with Columbia College Chicago.

• Equipment Specialist

  Columbia College Chicago

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 9 months)

  Maintained equipment and assisted students in the check out return process.

• Intern

  ChewBone Animation

  (Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  August 2006 — January 2007 (6 months)

  While interning at ChewBone I had the opportunity to work on their second animated short entitled “A Time For All Seasonings” as an animation assistant. My duties included:
  - Assisting the director with day to day needs
  – Generation of visual effects

• Specialist (E-4)

  United States Army Reserve

  (Military industry)

  May 2002 — October 2005 (3 years 6 months)

  Served one tour of duty in Iraq in May 2003 to April 2004.

Akira Thompson’s Education

• The Drawing Workshop

  2006 — 2008

• Columbia College Chicago

  BA , Film and Video , 2004 — 2007

Additional Information

Akira Thompson’s Websites:

• My Website

Akira Thompson’s Groups:

•    Columbia Alumni Association & Network - CAAN
•    Game Developers
•    VideoGame Professionals
•    'TOONGODS
•    Level Up! Opportunities for games people.

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