Raymond Holmes

Current

• Game Designer at Playdom

Past

• Lead Designer at Zynga
• Lead Designer at Locomotive Games
• Lead Designer at Obsidian Entertainment

• Senior Designer at Seven Studios
• Producer/Designer at Terminal Reality
• Producer/Designer at Blue Planet Software
• Systems Analyst at State of Hawaii
• Systems Administrator at Crazy Shirts
• Programmer at Title Guaranty Escrow Services, Inc.

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Raymond Holmes’s Summary

Producer/Designer with over a decade of game development experience. Comfortable speaking the language of programmers, designers and artists. Skilled at managing creative professionals and driving the creative process.

Raymond Holmes’s Specialties:

Game Systems Design and Documentation, Team Management, Pipeline/Organization, Mocap shoot direction, Project and Budget Management.

Raymond Holmes’s Experience

• Game Designer

  Playdom

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  August 2009 — Present (5 months)

• Lead Designer

  Zynga

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  November 2008 — August 2009 (10 months)

  Working on games for Social Networks.
  
  Systems Design and balancing for Burning Realms aka Guild of Heroes.
  Design on Mafia Wars. Designed Job Mastery and Top Mafia Positions.
  Design and balancing on FarmVille. Helped grow app to 6 million daily users in less than 7 weeks from launch.

• Lead Designer

  Locomotive Games

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; THQI; Computer Games industry)

  March 2008 — November 2008 (9 months)

  Lead Designer on Red Faction: BEAST for Wii. It was cancelled when THQ closed Locomotive.

• Lead Designer

  Obsidian Entertainment

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  August 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 6 months)

  Lead Designer on Alpha Protocol 3rd person Action/RPG for 360, PS3 and PC.

• Senior Designer

  Seven Studios

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  December 2005 — July 2006 (8 months)

  Systems Designer on Sopranos game.

• Producer/Designer

  Terminal Reality

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  December 2002 — November 2005 (3 years )

  Producer/Lead Designer on Aeon Flux
  Producer/Lead Designer on BloodRayne 2

• Producer/Designer

  Blue Planet Software

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

  October 1996 — February 2002 (5 years 5 months)

  Producer on HanaSaki Gassen (unpublished GBA for Nintendo)
  Producer on The Next Tetris Online Edition (Dreamcast)
  Producer/Lead Designer on Barbie Team Gymnastics (PC)
  Producer/Lead Designer on Figure Skating Demo (shopped around to get Barbie)
  Associate Producer on Secret of the Black Onyx (unpublished RPG for PC)

• Systems Analyst

  State of Hawaii

  (Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Government Administration industry)

  June 1991 — October 1996 (5 years 5 months)

• Systems Administrator

  Crazy Shirts

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Textiles industry)

  February 1990 — June 1991 (1 year 5 months)

  Coolest building I've ever worked in.

• Programmer

  Title Guaranty Escrow Services, Inc.

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Real Estate industry)

  April 1987 — February 1990 (2 years 11 months)

  My first "real" job.