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Jagex (Audio Designer): April 2024 to Present:

Create assets independently.
Training juniors to use the proprietary tools, engine and code and giving creative feedback.
Taking lead on smaller projects by meeting with key stakeholders to plan audio/music required for updates, creating JIRA's to ensure jobs are completed, timed and trackable.
Leading monthly 'Sound Design Challenges' to offer feedback on peers work that is outside the usual realm of high-fantasy MMORPG.
Planning and executing field and foley recording sessions, editing and categorising the results.
Version control using Perforce.
Continuous learning to stay current with industry trends, workflow and practices.

Leeds Beckett (Guest Lecturer): October 2023 to Present.

Annual lectures to first year Leeds Beckett Music Production students on day to day life as an audio designer in video games and how I got my first role.
With the hope that some of them are inspired enough to focus their studies around game audio.

Jagex (Junior Audio Designer): November 2022 to April 2024.

Creating appropriate assets through synthesis, recording and libraries for weekly releases in Runescape and Old School Runescape.
Logging time on JIRA.
Logging learning on Confluence.
Striving to improve my sound design craft.

Epic Win Games (Sound Designer): January 11th, 2022 to July 11th 2022 (6-Month Contract):

Create audio assets through layering and processing samples/personal library material for implementing into short Unity games designed for team-building exercises.
Regular discord meetings to collaborate with Art, Animation and Programming teams to share ideas and WIP’s.
Documented my work through Confluence, source controlled with Plastic and tracked work with Trello.

Leeds Beckett University (BA Hons Music Production) Graduated – 2:1 (Upper Second-Class Honours): September 2017 – May 2020
Oldham Sixth Form (A Level / BTEC) ICT (Grade C), Electronics (Grade C), Music (A*): September 2015 – May 2017
North Chadderton School (GCSE) 7 GCSE’s A* to C including Maths and English: September 2010 – May 2015.

Skilled in Reaper and an array of plugins from providers such as FabFilter, Waves, Valhalla and Izotope.
Knowledge of Wwise - implementing into UE4 using EBP.
Experience with Confluence, JIRA and Perforce.
Experience in implementing audio into Unity through audio managers.
Experience in implementing audio into Unreal Engine through blueprinting.
Avid field recordist.

Volunteer Audio Engineer at Heart Headingley: August 2024 - Present

Setting up microphones and running gigs for live music events at charity venue Heart in Leeds, UK.

Live at Leeds Festival (Artist Liaison): 5th May 2018:

Fix in Art Erasmus+ Volunteering in Greece: 9th May - 4th June 2019:

Improved team working abilities through volunteering with 30 people I had previously never met.
Learned about a new culture and adapted quickly to work well with people from a range of nationalities with varying degrees of the English language.

Leeds Beckett Music Society: January 2019 - May 2020

Set up and created the Leeds Beckett Music Society.
The society is very successful with over 130 members, it hosts an event every week in various venues across Leeds, attracting around 20-30 people per event.
Ran the Facebook page, which has 250+ followers, since its conception and created weekly Facebook events in a month’s advance. Also designed posters for various events.
Creating the society boosted my time management, communication and general people skills.

Cycling Trips
Collecting Music; CD's, Vinyls, Tapes.
Gaming - Some honourable mentions; Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Sid Meirs Pirate's, Bus Simulator Next Stop, Fallout: New Vegas, Call of Duty.

References available on request