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Ryan Penk
123 Adams Street, Waltham, MA 02453
C: (908) 723-2848
rt.penk@gmail.com

ryanpenk.com

Skills

• - Systems Design and Implementation

• - Level Design and Development

• - Thrives in team-based projects

• - Identifying and solving problems

• - Design Documentation/Written communication

Technology

• - Microsoft Office Suite

• - Torque Game Engine Advanced/Torque 3D

• - Unreal III Editor

• - Perforce/Tortoise SVN

• - Unfuddle Project Management

Work Experience

Turbine, Inc. – Needham, MA December 2010 – Present

QA Coordinator [External Testing] – The Lord of the Rings Online

• - Schedule and manage focus testing for private and public test servers
  
• - Gather and provide detailed feedback to developers
  
• - Interact with testers both in-game and via forums
  
• - Coordinate with various divisions of the company

Turbine, Inc. – Needham, MA August 2010 – December 2010

Quality Assurance Tester – The Lord of the Rings Online

• - Worked on ad-hoc testing, bug regressions, changelists, and testplans for The Lord of the Rings Online
• - Aided in quality assurance of Free-to-Play updates/Store as well as ensuring a successful launch for the November 2010 update

Turbine, Inc. – Westwood, MA July 2009 – August 2009

Systems Design Intern – The Lord of the Rings Online

• – Fixed a variety of bugs (gameplay, cosmetic, spelling/grammar, etc.)
• – Created and implemented numerous quest items as part of an initiative to improve the player experience in lower level content, specifically the Lone-Lands region
• - Produced detailed documentation for the above about specific item placements, in addition to providing justifications for newly created items designed to streamline equal class representation for rewards
• - Aided in testing in-house tools

Projects

Praelium

Lead Designer (Pre-production)/Level Designer/Sound Designer

• - First-person combination-based spell-casting game with core mechanic achieved almost entirely through voice recognition
  

• - Devised and tuned the spell-combination system; built, painted and populated a multiplayer level, and organized all sounds for the game
  

Outfits of Hypocrisy

Lead Designer/Narrative Designer

• - Open-world adventure game with multiple campaigns, extensive dialogue/voice-acting
  

• - Worked with my team to create the overall feel of the game world, created puzzles/content, and wrote the majority of dialogue
  

Loot

Lead Designer/Level Designer

• - Top-down stealth-strategy game

• - Created and balanced all levels/skills in the game, arranged enemy placements/patrols
  

Education

Champlain College – Burlington, VT

- B.S., Electronic Game & Interactive Development – Game Design