Troy Maynard
Raleigh, NC
Phone: **Request**
Email: troy@nuldrums.com
Website: http://troymaynard.info/
Demo Reel: https://vimeo.com/284537227
SUMMARY
Fortnite QA Tester with a background in Indie
Game development looking to move into an engineering position. Started by
designing pen and paper games at a young age then learned whatever was
necessary to bring video game ideas to fruition, including programming, sound
design, animation and art. Worked for two years on a survival sidescroller action game called Native, led
teams for 6 Global Game Jams, competed in the Epic Games Megajam
2017, and have been a QA Tester on Fortnite
for almost 2 years.
QUALIFICATIONS
·
Graduated
with a BS in Computer Science with a concentration in Digital Arts from UNCW
·
Then
spent two years making an indie game, Native, with Unity and C#. It was
successfully Greenlit in 2016
·
Showed
Native at 3 expo's, including Momocon, where it was a
Finalist
·
QA
Tester on Fortnite at Epic Games since March 2018,
Started as a general QA Tester then moved up to being an Embedded Audio QA Analyst
in September
· Led small teams of 5 - 6 people for the annual Global Game Jam event for the last 6 years
·
GGJ Game #1 (Mr. Face); GGJ Game #2 (Chipset); GGJ Game #3 (Cult Tycoon); GGJ Game #4 (WubWob); GGJ Game #5 (Quipu);
·
Competed
in Epic Games’ week-long MegaJam 2017 under the One Man Army Category
·
Strong
C# and C++ programmer also have experience with Python, Javascript,
Java, SQL, PHP, MongoDB and Node.JS
·
5
years of experience with Unity and 2 years with UE4
·
Programmed
games in many genres including Sidescroller, RTS, Third
Person Action-Adventure, Boardgames, Cardgames, VR experience, and Turn Based Strategy
·
Familiar
with Maya for both modeling and animation
·
Seven
years of experience making electronic music/sound design, self-taught Ableton Live and sound synthesis
·
Experience
with a range of Adobe products mainly Flash, Illustrator and Photoshop
·
Played
Hearthstone, Magic The Gathering and Legend of the Five Rings for hundreds of
hours
·
Highest
rank achieved in Hearthstone was rank 3 during the Un’Goro
expansion
WORK EXPERIENCE
Embedded Audio QA Analyst Sept. 2019 – Present
Epic Games, Raleigh, NC
Work alongside audio designers to
test / make test cases for the audio in STW and Creative
QA
Tester 2018 - 2019
Epic
Games, Raleigh, NC
General
QA tester for Fortnite (Started in STW then all game
modes then Creative)
Indie
Game Developer 2014 - 2018
Nuldrums, Raleigh, NC
Owner of Nuldrums
and primary developer of the indie game Native.
Programming
Intern Summer 2014
Pietech, Durham, NC
Spent the summer setting up a Hadoop cluster.
Student
Technician 2013 - 2014
Technology
Assistance Center, Wilmington, NC
Provided
IT support for students and staff at UNCW.
EDUCATION
Bachelor
of Science, Computer Science/Digital Arts concentration
May
2014
UNCW
15 Credit Hours, Game Design
Associates
2008 - 2010
Wake
Technical Community College
INTERESTS
GAMES!, Electronic Music Production / DJing,
Beer brewing, Sailing, and Snowboarding
REFERENCES
Nicholas Lacelle,
Designer
Epic
Games
Phone:
**Request**
Email: **Request**
Kevin Boggs, Technical Artist
Red
Storm Entertainment
Phone:
**Request**
Email: **Request**
Dr. Eric Patterson, Associate Director
Clemson
University, Digital Production Arts
Phone:
**Request**
Email:
**Request**