Resume update - 16th August 2009

Kar Ching Chan
Vermeerplantsoen 128
5151WZ Drunen
The Netherlands
+31 (0)6-48731926
karching@hotmail.com
kcchan@playlogicgames.com


Highly motivated, pro active and committed to excellence with team spirit and over two and half years of experience in casual and console games development and over a year of experience in functional software testing and quality assurance. With exceptional interpersonal skills, forward thinking, good decision making and prioritizing skills and always trying to keep the overview. A quick learner combined with a flexible mentality to be efficient and to adapt to any situation.


Accomplishments

• Working on the highly anticipated Sony Eye Pet on the PS3 since the preproduction phase. Creating prototypes and improving design, gameplay production and polishing of the game.
• Created the successful casual advert game ‘Het grote Dr. Oetker Keukenspel’, playable at http://www.oetkerweb.nl/kitchengame/ the game is up and running since the start of 2007. Dr. Oetker uses the game as a new platform to promote their products.
• Being the first person ever who has been contracted by Siemens VDO after an internship, while still having to attend university. Because of my excellent performance at the testing and quality assurance department, Siemens VDO made an exception on their rule ‘not contracting a person who still has to finish its study’.
• Graduate with Honour, Cum Laude from the Avans University, BSc of Information Technology and Multi Media.

Professional Experience

• Game programmer – Playlogic Game Factory September 2007 - Present
  - Working on the Sony Eye Pet project since the preproduction phase. Experience in creating prototypes, improving prototype designs to programming gameplay and polishing the game. Having direct contact with designers, programmers and artists from SCEE on a daily basis.
  - Worked on the postponed Sony Eye X project, creating prototypes and improving prototype designs.
• Game programmer – Fantazm.com November 2006 – June 2007
  - Worked as an intern and freelancer. Creating casual and advergames including the successful game ‘Het grote Dr. Oetker Keukenspel’. Improving game designs, planning the development and programming the games.
  - Created the Game-O-Vision system. An innovative web-based system that traces and stores game- and user data. Developed for managers and marketing to give insight to how the game is being experienced by its players.
• Software test engineer – Siemens VDO August 2005 – November 2006
  - Started as an intern and after it being the first person who got contracted, while still having to attend university. Responsible for designing test specifications and functional testing of new navigation, information and entertainment software to verify and validate the quality of it. My design documents have been used to prove the quality of the Verification & Validation department in cross department meetings.
• Others 2000 – 2007
  - Bartender at a restaurant.
  - Team leader at a market gardening company.

Education

• Avans University September 2003 – June 2007
  - Graduate with Honour, Cum Laude.
  - BSc of Information Technology and Multi Media.
  - Project based semesters; have been project lead and manager in each project.
• D’ Oultremontcollege September 1997 – June 2003
  - VWO, Atheneum level.
  - Natural science and Technology.
• Yu Hua Chinese Schools Foundation 1995 – 2000
  - Chinese (Cantonese) language study.

Skills & Tools

• Languages
  - Fluent vocal and writing; Dutch and English,
  - Fluent vocal; Chinese (Cantonese),
  - Basic; German, French and Japanese.
• Management tools
  - Microsoft Office suit; Word, Excel, Project, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, FrontPage,
  - Hansoft Project Management.
• QA tools
  - TechExcel DevTrack,
  - Hansoft Production Management,
  - Change Synergy,
  - Mantis Bug Tracking.
• Version control tools
  - Accurev,
  - Subversion,
  - CVS.
• Multimedia
  - Adobe; Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver,
  - Pinnacle Studio,
  - Avid Express Pro,
  - SCEE Nexus animation.
• Programming
  - C++, JAVA, Delphi, Actionscript, LUA, Havok, UML.
• Web scripting
  - HTML, PHP, JAVASCRIPT, XML, CSS.
• Database
  - SQL.

Interests & Hobbies

Play video games and writing personal reviews; http://kcchans.blogspot.com/, designing game concepts, Dungeons & Dragons, sports; soccer, basketball, swimming, play pool, Japanese animation, reading
game production and design books, karaoke, organise trips and events and make sure that everything
goes as planned, socialising and going out with friends and colleagues.