JOSHUA LEE

E-mail:

joshlee@semifat.net

Web:

http://joshleejosh.com/portfolio/

Josh Lee is a game designer and producer with a broad range of creative and technical skills. Josh is dedicated to the creation of fun games that reach a wide audience.

GAME DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE

Trion World Network, October 2008 to Present: Content Designer, Heroes of Telara

• Planned and implemented the population of NPCs throughout the game's world.
• Wrote and implemented quests.
• Designed and implemented tutorials to familiarize the player with the game's mechanics and lore.

Secret Level, October 2007 to September 2008: Designer, Golden Axe: Beast Rider

• Designed, programmed, and tuned enemy AI, creating a broad range of characters to challenge and surprise the player.
• Collaborated with animators, riggers, and engineers to integrate and tune character animations.
• Designed and scripted levels for the game's challenge mode, forming intense gauntlets to test the player's skill.
• Implemented a library of visualization tools, allowing designers to see what the AI were thinking and diagnose problems in real time.

Monster Games Inc., December 2006 to August 2007: Game Designer, unannounced prototype.

• Prototyped gameplay mechanics for unannounced Wii title.
• Designed and programmed AI.
• Provided feedback and direction to engineers and artists to maintain the project's vision.

Monster Games Inc., December 2005 to October 2006: Game Designer, Excite Truck.

• Designed and tuned AI, creating computer-controlled opponents that can race competitively with a wide range of players.
• Designed tutorials that familiarize the player with the Nintendo Wii's innovative controller, as well as with the game's rules and mechanics.
• Designed and tuned non-racing game modes to provide additional entertainment value to the player.
• Designed and implemented sound effects for the game and user interface, immersing the player in the game's world and enhancing the gameplay experience.

Monster Games Inc., February to May 2004: Producer, Test Drive: Eve of Destruction.

• Created cinematic interludes to preview tracks and events in the game.
• Managed placement of virtual cameras for replay of events.
• Designed variations on basic events to widen the player's gameplay options.
• Tested and tuned gameplay.

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

HomebrewerSupply.com, July to August 2005: Contractor

• Redeveloped the HomebrewerSupply.com web site, providing a standards-compliant implementation of a conceptual design to improve usability, accessibility, and search ranking.

Minnesota Public Radio, June to September 2005: Web Developer

• Redeveloped web sites for American Public Media's national radio programs, bringing them together under a common site architecture and visual identity.
• Designed and developed a dynamic content solution for the Saint Paul Sunday web site.

Minnesota Public Radio, May to October 2005: Blogger

• Wrote entries for "The Bleacher Bums", Minnesota Public Radio's baseball web log.

Freelance Writer, November 2004 to May 2006

• Reviewed World of Warcraft for City Pages.
• Reviewed video games and online media for PopMatters, including NBA Street V3, Diner Dash, Rocketboom, and others.

Valuative Software, June to August 2003: Contractor

• Developed all the user interface components for a financial analysis product.
• Developed a flexible and reusable user interface framework based on Java Swing.

Retek Inc., September 1997 to February 2003: Software Engineer

• Assisted in a survey of Retek's applications and development teams to determine needs for usability guidelines; produced an internal website detailing these guidelines; consulted with various development teams on their implementation.
• Streamlined development of application interfaces by providing developers with libraries to generate and process XML-encoded messages within Retek's suite of products.
• Spearheaded efforts to re-platform various Retek applications by researching and prototyping user interface and application frameworks based on the Java 2 platform.
• Designed and developed a configuration management system, enbling engineers to focus more on programming and less on compiling.
• Reduced implementation costs for Retek's clients by assisting them with performance profiling and tuning.
• Led design and development efforts on the data-movement processes of the Retek Data Warehouse.
• Developed and delivered training curricula for new and inexperienced programmers.

SKILLS

Software Tools:

Adobe Audition, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Flash, Havok Behavior, Movable Type, Jakarta Ant, Make, Microsoft Office.

Programming Languages:

HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript/ECMAScript, ActionScript, Lua, Python, PHP, Perl, Java, C, C++, Unix shell scripting (Bourne and Korn), Windows/DOS batch file scripting.

EDUCATION

University of Minnesota, College of Continuing Education, 2004-2005.

Courses Taken:

Sexuality and Culture, On Television, Critical Debates in the Study of Cinema and Mass Culture.

Carleton College, Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, 1997.

Courses Taken:

Data Structures, Programming Languages, Computer Algorithms, Organization/Systems, Discrete Mathematics, Theory of Computation, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Graphics.

REFERENCES

Available upon request.