Jeffrey Kafer

Current

Owner at Jeffrey Kafer - Male Voice over talent

Past

Software Design Engineer in Test at Microsoft
Software Test Engineer at Macromedia

Education

San Francisco State University

Recommended

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Connections

209 connections

Industry

Computer Games

Websites

Jeffrey Kafer’s Summary

A brief summary of my skills and experience:

+ Professional Award-winning Voice over Artist
+ Microsoft Game Studios veteran with 10 years of proven expertise working in 1st and 3rd party game and software development environments.
+ Complete end-to-end test execution of over 12 AAA titles including Fable II, Mass Effect, Gears of War, MechWarrior 4 and Zoo Tycoon 2 for PC, Xbox, and Xbox 360
+ Recent Graduate of the Dale Carnegie Leadership Training

As well, I’ve been given unique opportunities to stretch beyond a typical test role. Not only did I produce and design new tools for asset testing, in-game monitoring, and data-mining, I was also charged with co-producing an outward facing Microsoft podcast at http://PlatformBiased.com. This was a more traditional Producer role, involved in budgeting, scheduling, cross-group collaboration, working with 3rd party groups, legal, marketing etc. This work was some of the most rewarding of my career.

Jeffrey Kafer’s Specialties:

Producing
Driving test tools
Cross-group collaboration
Communication

Jeffrey Kafer’s Experience

Owner

Jeffrey Kafer - Male Voice over talent

(Entertainment industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )

Winner - 2008 Voicey Award - Best New Voice!

Upbeat, young, and modern, Jeffrey offers a youthful, friendly voice with a bit of edge and cool. Recording from his home studio in Seattle, Jeffrey offers fast turnaround, professional service and unlimited pickups!
Software Design Engineer in Test

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

1999 — 2009 (10 years )

PRODUCTION
+ Co-Produced and co-hosted the Platform Biased games-insider podcast at http://platformbiased.com
+ Booked internal and 3rd party guests, worked with legal and marketing and collaborated with all functional groups within MGS to drive content and interviews
+ Produced and drove development of multiple data-mining tools to accelerate testing of key audio features in Fable II by over 300%, including a tool to test over 50,000 lines of dialogue in 3 days
LEADERSHIP
+ As single Player Test Lead for Gears of War, directed the testing of the entire single player campaign. Produced tools and specified automation needs and drove them to completion
PUBLIC SPEAKING
+ Created proposal and accepted as a speaker for the March 2009 Game Developers Conference
+ Produced and presented 3 training presentations to mentor other testers on new methods and tools for testing audio
Software Test Engineer

Macromedia

(Public Company; MACR; Computer Software industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years )