Ayesha Khan

Current

Creative Design Contractor, APB at Realtime Worlds

Past

Content Designer, Lord of the Rings Online at Turbine, Inc.
Quality Assurance Tester, Lord of the Rings Online at Turbine, Inc.
O-Level English Teacher at Karachi High School

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Education

Roger Williams University
Barnard College

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Industry

Computer Games

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Ayesha Khan’s Summary

Personable, motivated computer game content designer specializing in story-driven, high-quality writing. Focussed on engaging characters and dialogue and immersive storylines. Well-read, well-traveled, adaptable, and multilingual (French, Spanish, English, with some Latin, Urdu & Italian).

Ayesha Khan’s Specialties:

Writing and creating quests, NPCs, monsters/mobs, items etc., using data-tree management software Perforce, and using proprietary quest-designing, world-building, and level-editing software.

Ayesha Khan’s Experience

Creative Design Contractor, APB

Realtime Worlds

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

- Creating missions, with a focus on flavor-heavy narrative in few words
- Creating in-game background stories, brands and people
- Copy-editing all text in the game!
Content Designer, Lord of the Rings Online

Turbine, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

November 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 3 months)

Content Design:
- created quest design and flow
- wrote stories, dialogue, text items
- ensured Tolkien canon / lore compliance
- took part in the creation process of monsters, NPCs, places in game
- created and managed documents and specs (Perforce)
Quality Assurance Tester, Lord of the Rings Online

Turbine, Inc.

(Computer Games industry)

February 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 10 months)

I started as a temporary worker and was promoted to full-time QA Tester, specializing in the newbie experience, critiquing character generation, lore-appropriateness, copy-editing (including the Prima guide for LOTRO), and solo/small-group content up to level 40.
O-Level English Teacher

Karachi High School

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)

September 2004 — June 2005 (10 months)

Taught high school English in Karachi, Pakistan. Prepared students for "O-Level" exam (equivalent to US grades 9-11) in written English.
Helped organize International Schools Educational Olympiad, hosted at Karachi High School.

Ayesha Khan’s Education

Roger Williams University

BFA & BA , Creative Writing & History , 2000 — 2004

Studied history and theater in London for one semester. Minors in British Theater & Society; concentration in visual art (pencils, charcoal, some oil paints, acrylics, etc).

Activities and Societies:

Theater, Live Action Role-Playing games
Barnard College

Architecture, English 1998 — 2000

Studied architecture, design, English, literature.
Had to take some time off school due to health reasons; transferred to Roger Williams.

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Ayesha Khan’s Websites:

Ayesha Khan’s Interests:

Quest and character design, traveling, reading voraciously, creative writing, dancing, drawing and painting, watching movies, deconstructing pop culture, cooking, gadgetry, all things feline, new technology