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JOSEPH B. HEWITT IV
Senior Game Designer
 3317 Pond Run Circle
Las Vegas, Nevada 89117
(702) 254-4838
josephthefourth@yahoo.com
  • Over 20 years of industry experience on numerous platforms and multiple genres
  • Shipping credit on numerous million-unit selling and award winning PC and console titles
  • Experienced Supervisor, proven leader, and product evangelist
  • An avid gamer, team player, and fast learner with excellent communication & coordination skills
  • Forward problem solving with a focused attention to detail and strong aesthetic eye
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
 Interzone Games
  Perth, WA
  2008 - 2009
 Creative Director  
  
  • Creating, owning, and maintaining the vision for all games created and ensuring the team understands, buys into, is committed to and driving toward fulfilling that vision
  • Directing the Design & Art teams, ensuring that they create fun, high quality, good looking and interesting content
  • Interfacing between the Design, Art, Programming and Production teams
  • Long term planning and prioritization
  • Coordinating with teams in the United States, China, and Brazil
 Lead Designer  
  
  • Lead Designer of Interzone Futebol, a PC, MMO soccer game
  • Managing the design team.
  • Creating and overseeing the writing of design documents
  • Interfacing between Design, Programming, Art, and Production teams
     Auran Games
    		 Brisbane, QLD
    		  2004 - 2008
      Lead Content Designer
    • Lead Content Designer of FURY, a PC, Player vs. Player, MMO-style, arena combat game
    • Managing all designers on the Content Design team
    • Writing specifications and maintaining ultimate ownership of all design areas that fall under the scope of Content Design: Levels, Prose, Interface, Controls, Social, etc.
    • Plotting overall game creation path with the Creative Director, Lead Systems Designer and Development Producer
    • Design of Customer Service abilities, tools and policies
    • Interface design including detailed concept art and oversight of art creation and implementation
     Sony Online Entertainment
    		 San Diego, CA
    		  2003 - 2004
     Star Wars Galaxies Customer Service Representative
    • Priority access team, handling in game stuck and harassment issues tickets
    • Working with players in and out of game to solve their customer service issues
    • Investigating bugs and system flaws
    • Knowledge Base Administrator, auditing the knowledge base solutions and entering new issues
      Westwood Studios (Electronic Arts)
      		 Las Vegas, NV
      		  1988 - 2003
       Game Designer / Senior Artist
      • Involved in the creation of nearly every title developed by Westwood over 14 years
      • Heavily involved in the designing of games including level building, scripting, game systems, puzzles, interface, story and play balancing
      • Vast experience on multiple platforms including converting many PC games to console systems
      • Supervising many production teams, assigning tasks, approving work, managing the pipeline and interfacing between the art and design teams
      • Design of in-house tools, systems and implementation methods
       Unicorn Software
      		 Las Vegas, NV
      		  1985 - 1988
       Game Designer / Artist / Teacher
      • Designed educational children’s software to be both fun and educational
      • Sole artist on most titles
      • After school tutoring of reading, math and computer programming
      EDUCATION
       University of Nevada Las Vegas
      		 Las Vegas, NV
      		  1986 - 1988
        Computer Science major

       Clark County Community College
      		 Las Vegas, NV
      		  1995 - 1998
        Photography and Creative Writing

      RELATED INTEREST
      • Charter member of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences
      • Member of the International Game Developer Association
      • Judge for the Australian literary Aurealis Awards
      • Former performer with GOOF, Grand Order of Fools, an improvisational stand up comedy group
      • Long history of involvement with role-playing games: table top, on-line and live action
      • Member of the EverQuest volunteer customer service guide program from May of 2000 to July of 2004. Responsible for first response to customer service issues and helped run live events
      • Ran a very large, non-profit, Live Action Role-Playing group for 2  years



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