Gregory Jones

Email: [email protected]

Cell: 206 949 5214

Website: http://heist-pyt.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://gregoryjones.weebly.com/

Career Objective

To find a full time position where I can both contribute and continue to grow as an artist. My concern is more with the quality of the position and its opportunities than with the location or specific industry it is in.

Career Achievements

                                                                                                                      

Mixrated.com, Seattle, WA: Created logo and banner for website using Illustrator and Photoshop

Infinity Uprising Studios, New York, NY: Contract work for Infinity Studios. Character Concept and Designs were used for t-shirts utilizing Photoshop.

J Saigon Clothing Co., Seattle, WA: Made designs for clothing company specifically summer wear. Programs utilized were Photoshop and Illustrator CS.

Bremerton Independent MovieFestival: Presented several small animation projects between feature showings at the animation festival held in the Charleston Theater, Bremerton, WA.

Experience

Online Software Tester: March 2006 - July 2006 (Contract) Microsoft/Excel
Xbox 360 Online multi-player testing.
PC Online multi-player testing.
Wrote Bug Reports in Product Studio.
Performed Bug Regressions.
Retrieved Test Cases from Excel spread sheet.
Used routers to update Firmware.

Software Game Test Engineer: February 2005 – August 2008 (Contract) VMC, Redmond, WA
Creation and execution of test cases.
Manual Ad-hoc testing.
Defect reporting and regression testing.
tested system setup and configuration and basic automated test scripting.         

Game Tester: April 2006 – June 2007 (Contract) Arenanet, Bellevue, WA
Used functional testing to test Guild of War as a team of four for PC.
Tested online chat functions for game.
Game played for bugs and abnormalities.
Reported to manager how game play went.

Game Tester: March 2006 Monolith (Contract) Bellevue, WA
Used regression testing skills to test online games for PC.
Game played for bugs and abnormalities.
Tested online chat functions for game.
Used Excel to report character upgrades.

Game Tester: June 2004 – Oct 2004, Jan 2005, July 2005 VMC (Contract) Redmond, WA
Used functional testing to test game console and online games.
Game played for bugs and abnormalities.
Handwrote what bugs were found in game and also used VHS to record bugs.

Game Tester: August 2005 Phantom Gaming Service (Contract) Seattle, WA
Responsibilities included regression testing for online games for the PC.
Typed in testing codes so the information on the bugs would be reported to programmers so they could collect data on abnormalities.

Game Tester: February 2003, April 2005, July 2007 Microsoft (Contract) Bellevue, WA
Responsibilities included functional testing of the Microsoft Xbox and testing Xbox games during game play.

Intern/Graphic Designs: Fieldhouse, May 2004, Bellevue, WA
Working with on-site manager to meet deadlines and complete projects.  Tasks include use of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
Created new designs for t-shirt logos.

Education

Associate of Computer Arts & Animation, 2003 the Art Institute of Seattle, Seattle, WA

Skills Upgrade at Lake Washington Technical College, 2010

2D & 3D Programs:

·         Maya 2010

·         ZBrush

·         Unreal and UDK Editor

·         Illustrator Cs4

·         Photoshop Cs4