CV

Career Objective:

I am looking for work as a Designer, Level Designer or Lead Level Designer.

Introduction:

My name is Gaute Rasmussen. I’m an experienced Designer / World Builder / Level Designer with over 8 years games industry experience. My skills include Level Design, World Building, Modeling, Game Design and Programming. I was born in 1976 in Norway and worked there for a few years. I’ve also worked for one year in Australia earlier, over two years in Canada and I'm currently working and living in Australia for the second time.

Work experience:

(2006 - ) Senior Level Designer - Krome Studios, Australia.
I'm currently working on an unannounced project based on mainstream entertainment IP.
Projects: Hellboy: The Sience of Evil, unannounced  project.
Tasks: Level Design, camera placements.

(2004 -  2006) Level Designer - Ubisoft, Canada.
2 years and 2 months experience as a Level Designer for Ubisoft's Montréal studio.
Projects: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Prince of Persia The Two Thrones, Splinter Cell Double Agent, Surf's Up.
Tasks: Game play design and implementation, navigation mesh, dynamic lighting, AI setup, patrol paths, testing, creating design documents, creating levels from scratch, being responsible for multiple levels from conception till completion.

(2003) World Builder - Micro Forté, Australia.
1 year experience  working as World Builder on an exciting MMOG for the Xbox.
Project: Citizen Zero.
Tasks: Designing and building indoor and outdoor mission spaces using in-house software (Big World technology). Placement of enemies. Gameplay tuning. Contributing to the design of the game.

(2001 - 2002) World Designer - Funcom, Norway.
2 years experience working as a World Designer for the first ever sci-fi MMORPG.
Project: Anarchy Online.
Tasks: Designing and building outdoor landscapes and indoor architecture using in-house software (T.I.D.E) Placement of enemies. Contributing to the design of the game.

(1999 - 2000) Solution Analyst - Andersen Consulting, Norway (Now known as Accenture)
1 1/2 years experience as a computer consultant. Most of that time I spent doing consulting work for different departments of Norway's largest telecommunications provider: Telenor.
The remaining 6 months I spent on an internal Oracle project, programming in Oracle Forms.
Tasks: Oracle Forms programming, tech support, Java design and programming.

Education:

Bachelor's Degree - Computer Engineer - 3 years at Agder College, Grimstad, Norway. I graduated in 1999.
My focus in college was on computer graphics. I did my main projects in 3D Studio Max.

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