Ken Leung

Current

Actionscript Gameplay Programmer at Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group

Past

Flash Developer at Riot Games
Art Intern at Riot Games
Creative Development Intern at THQ

Flash/Actionscript Tutor at Freelance (Self-employed)
Designer & Producer on "Ground Truth" at University of Southern California
Java Programmer at Sygate

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Education

University of Southern California
University of California, San Diego

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Ken Leung’s Summary

Flash / Flex Developer

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

Actionscript Gameplay Programmer

Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group

(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)

March 2009 — Present (5 months)

- Actionscript 3 programming for Neopets project "PetPetPark"
Flash Developer

Riot Games

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

January 2009 — February 2009 (2 months)

- programmed new features for HUD in League of Legends
- produced special effects for HUD
- prototyped new HUD features
Art Intern

Riot Games

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

August 2008 — January 2009 (6 months)

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

THQ

(Public Company; THQI; Computer Games industry)

August 2008 — December 2008 (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
Freelance (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Writing and Editing 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
Java Programmer

Sygate

(Privately Held; 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