Chris Power

Past

Associate Game Designer at Electronic Arts Black Box
QA Game Tester at Electronic Arts Canada
Assistant Manager at Blockbuster Video Canada

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Education

British Columbia Institute of Technology
Vancouver Film School

Recommended

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Connections

51 connections

Industry

Computer Games

Websites

Artisan Laser Works

Chris Power’s Summary

Moved to Vancouver, BC in 1999 and completed Vancouver Film School course in Classical Animation (2D). Moved into Video Game industry as an Game Tester, becamce an Associate Game Designer at Electronic Arts Black Box on the Need for Speed Franchise.
Currently am unemployed, looking to join a Gaming company and move into a Senior or Lead Design role within the next couple of years.

Chris Power’s Specialties:

Concept Design, Photoshop, Graphic Design, Brainstorming, Organization, Efficiency, MS Office

Chris Power’s Experience

Associate Game Designer

Electronic Arts Black Box

(Public Company; ERTS; Computer Games industry)

April 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 10 months)

- Used Career Editor tool to setup the structure of game Career, worked with Programmmers to design and populate game's Economy/Reward system.
- Execute assigned tasks on time working towards established design of project.
- Organizing testing data into useable information (Assisting in User data collection, Using Metrics, Fixes bugs as assigned).
- Active brainstorming participant, contributes to vision of game through presented ideas.
- Creates/Edits existing content and executes against detailed plan.
- Currently working for the Need for Speed Franshise

TItles worked on:
Need for Speed: Pro Street (PS2, X360, PS3, PC, Wii)
QA Game Tester

Electronic Arts Canada

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

June 2003 — April 2007 (3 years 11 months)

- Develop training packages for new testers to get them up to date with team structure and testing plans.
- Constructs a testing plan based on Feature briefs provided by Production.
- Organized a small group of testers and focused on given area(s) of game to be tested.
- Entered Issues into tracking database and verified fixes made by production.

Titles worked on:
James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (PS2, Xbox, GameCube)
Need for Speed: Underground 2 (PS2, Xbox, GameCube, PC)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (PS2, Xbox, GameCube, PC, X360)
Def Jam: Fight for New York (PSP)
The Sims 2: Pets (PSP)
The Sims 2: Castaway (PSP)
Assistant Manager

Blockbuster Video Canada

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Consumer Services industry)

October 2000 — June 2003 (2 years 9 months)

Chris Power’s Education

British Columbia Institute of Technology

Web Design and Programming 2009 — 2010 (expected)

Activities and Societies:

HTML, XML, Flash, C#, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, MS Office
Vancouver Film School

Classical Animation (2D) 1999 — 2000

Activities and Societies:

Layout Design, Storyboarding, Colour Theory, Key Frames, Poses, Animation, Skteching, Life Drawing, Editing