Francois Messier

Level Designer
Portfolio: http://www.vgd.ca/portfolio E-mail: messier16@hotmail/com Phone: 416-460-7664 Bedlam Games Toronto, Ontario Level Designer 2006 - Present Unannounced Unreal Engine 3 Project (Pre-Production) (PC, Xbox 360, PS3), 2008 Present
Prototyped the world streaming technology along with Unreal Kismet. Prototyped the persistence of states and objects in levels that get streamed and unstreamed. Collaborated with the pipeline research Planned, laid out, documented and white boxed the exterior level for the prototype. Collaborated with the code team to test new features.
Day of the Zombie (PC), 2008
Researched, documented and implemented all features used in the previous iteration of the game. Collaborated with the code and environmental team in making our pipeline as efficient as possible which was the key success in making this 2.5 month project flawless in it's execution. Designed 5 singleplayer levels (Designed,White boxed, Level Flow, Scripting, Matines). Designed 5 multiplayer levels (Designed,White boxed, Level Flow, Scripting, Asset Placement, Lighting).
Marine Sharpshooter 4 (PC), 2007 2008
Coordinated and supervised the contractors hired to create some of the Marine Sharpshooter 4 (MS4) levels on the tight deadline given for the game. Polished and maintained all levels at the end of the project. Designed 4 single player levels (Scripting, Asset Placement, Lighting, Matines). White boxed all of the levels to give the contractors a specific idea of the size of the levels. Planned and laid out 6 of the 10 levels in preproduction.
Warpath (SkillGround), 2006 2007
Refined, modified and maintained the existing Warpath tutorial. Optimized each level where gains could be found. Created the white box versions 3 Warpath levels.
Close Quarter Conflict (SkillGround), Designed, scripted and maintained the Close Quarter Conflict tutorial. Created 4 small 1 on 1 maps using existing assets. Groove Games Quality Assurance Team Lead Top 4 Titles out of 9: L.A. Street Racing (PC, SkillGround), 2007 Playboy the mansion: Private Party (PC), 2006 Warpath (Xbox, PC, SkillGround), 2006 Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddlers Green (Xbox, PC), 2005 Responsibilities
Toronto, Ontario 2005 - 2006
With team members, found and suggested balance changes to promote fair gameplay in the SkillGround games. Assigned tasks to team members to achieve the Quality Assurance (QA) goals delegated to me. Trained and coached new testers to ensure high quality testing. Planned and prepared game walkthrough documents for the ESRB, Microsoft and customer support. Tested certification requirements for both Microsoft (TCR) and Sony (TRC). Developed and implemented testing strategies for the QA team. Implemented and analyzed Black Box testing, Smoke testing and Regression testing. Responded in a timely manner to customer technical support queries received by e-mail.
Education International Academy of Design & Technology Video Game Design and Development Diploma

Toronto, Ontario 2004 2006
Developed a broad range of skills regarding the full spectrum of video game design, such as: Level Design with the Unreal Engine Audio Design Programming in C, C++, JAVA, OpenGL, DirectX, and Flash Understanding of 3D modeling, texturing, and animation with 3D Studio Max In 6th Semester, in a 15 person team, applied my programming expertise on the title Plowed, a snowboard game and our final project.
Heritage College Computer Science with COOP

Hull, Quebec 2000 2003

Learned the applications and skills required to go through all the stages of an applications development life cycle: Programming in C++, JAVA, VB.net, HTML, ASP, PHP, ASP.net Database management in SQL, MySQL and Oracle 8.1 In 3rd year, as a member of a 21 person team, assisted the development of the Professor Allocation System (PALS) using VB.net and ASP.net.