Some of the qualifications that make me a great candidate include:
- An experienced Writer, Designer, Software Tester and Game Developer.
- Strong affinity for blending written narrative with visual and audio narrative to make an excellent immersive experience.
- Writing, Design, Producer and QA experience gives me a well-rounded understanding of the development process as a whole.
- Experienced with Unity, Unreal 5, Hansoft, Trello, JIRA, Azure, Cypress, Excel, Word, Google Docs and many other appropriate software applications.
- Able to assess risks and formulate a solution in a timely manner.
Some of his many interests include:
- Writing
- Reading
- Hiking
- Gem hunting
- Game making (board & computer)
- Cooking
- Photography
- Digital Music creation
- Gardening
Graduated with a Diploma in Game Design.
Robert has previously maintained a personal blog about writing, life and entertainment (games/movies/board games). While writing the blog over a couple of years, he wrote more than 50 entries about day to day life things, writing experiences and short stories, plus bits about games, movies, and life as a game industry professional.
Robert has a decade and a half of experience in the software & tech industries.
Robert also put his writing skills to use for almost every company he worked with putting together public-facing documentation about the software & tech as well as listicle-styled FAQs, narrative writing, dialogue, and more.
He has been involved in software development for over a decade in multiple facets, and during that time he has worked on more than two dozen shipped products in a variety of roles, most recently Quality Assurance Specialist for Hyper Hippo Games. He has extensive software and hardware testing experience and is used to multiple project workloads.
He is well versed in the day-to-day routines of a software development environment and the many hats that are required to complete the tasks presented on any given day. Some of the qualifications that make Robert a great candidate include:
- An experienced Game Designer, Producer, QA Tester and IP Builder.
- Experienced with Unity, Unreal, Hansoft, Trello, JIRA, Excel, Word, Slack and many other appropriate software applications.
- Well-versed in Agile, Scrum and Waterfall methodologies.
- Past Design, Producer, QA and Narrative experience gives him a well-rounded understanding of the development process as a whole.
- Able to assess risks and formulate a solution in a timely manner.
Robert has previously written a number of blog posts and short articles on Game Design, Quality Assurance and Narrative Design.
Between the blog post style projects completed here on WA and his own personal blog stuff, Robert has completed well over 75 blog posts/articles across a wide breadth of subjects including:
- Coffee brewing and roasting
- Gaming and game reviews
- Game Development
- Writing
- Publishing
- Poetry
- Rockhounding
- Gardening
- Reading and book reviews
- Tips & Tricks for various subjects
- Humor
Robert has completed multiple FAQ pages for projects, He has worked across software and technology industries and is well versed in the information gathering process needed to complete such a request.
Spent multiple years learning and honing creative writing skills to outline, draft, edit and complete an epic fantasy novel that is the first in a trilogy.
Written for multiple video game projects and worked as a IP builder and Narrative Designer creating multiple released and unreleased game worlds.
General writing specialties include but are not limited to:
- Novel writing
- IP (world) building
- Editing
- Plotting, outlining, and story drafting