Ken Leung

Current

Art Intern at Riot Games
Creative Development Intern at THQ

Past

Flash/Actionscript Tutor at Ken Leung
Designer & Producer on "Ground Truth" at University of Southern California
Mac Specialist at Apple Retail

Designer & Artist on "Good Night Elysium" at University of Southern California
Programmer at Sygate

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Education

University of Southern California
University of California, San Diego

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Industry

Computer Games

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Ken Leung’s Summary

Grad student of Interactive Media at USC school of Cinema-Television studying game design .

Ken Leung’s Specialties:

Flash CS3, Flex 3, Actionscript 3.0, Java, Swing, Eclipse, Photoshop, Digital Illustration, Drawing, Painting, Keynote, GTD methodology

Ken Leung’s Experience

Art Intern

Riot Games

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

August 2008 — Present (5 months)

- Produce concept art for in-game characters and other assets (i.e. GUIs, buildings)
Creative Development Intern

THQ

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; THQI; Computer Games industry)

August 2008 — Present (5 months)

- Provide coverage, research, and analysis for new potential intellectual property
- Provide coverage, research, and analysis for current intellectual property
- Provide research and analysis of 3rd party technologies
Flash/Actionscript Tutor

Ken Leung

(Computer Software industry)

June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)

Private Tutoring for Flash/ActionScript
Designer & Producer on "Ground Truth"

University of Southern California

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; USC; Higher Education industry)

January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)

* Lead design on government sponsored serious game to train first responders
* Create design documents and pre-visuals to focus group design direction
* Managing art assets production team
* Design in conjunction with Sandia National Laboratories
Mac Specialist

Apple Retail

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Retail industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
Designer & Artist on "Good Night Elysium"

University of Southern California

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; USC; Higher Education industry)

January 2006 — November 2006 (11 months)

Mostly concept artist, though roles ranged from texture artist, 3D animator, and illustrator.
Programmer

Sygate

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

April 2004 — April 2005 (1 year 1 month)

Programmed a Java based graphical users interface for network auditing project, "Magellan."

Ken Leung’s Education

University of Southern California

MFA, Interactive Media, 2005 — 2008

Activities and Societies:

USC Dragon Boat Team
University of California, San Diego

BS, Computer Science, 1998 — 2003

Activities and Societies:

Nikkei Student Union, International Students House