CHINENYE AJAWARA
Union City,CA
Summary
A passionate designer who desires to learn the craft further and express creativity. Was hired by a small team right out of college and received first-hand experience in the development process, and now seeking a larger team with a live product with a solid structure and internal knowledge. I'm a T-Shaped game designer with experience in art, audio, and programming. Whether at work or crafting tabletop roleplaying campaigns, there is a strong drive to create interesting games with unique mechanics and excellent game feel. A hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level game design and QA positions. Ready to help the team achieve company goals.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
QA Tester
HCL Technologies
01.2024 - 06.2024
- Contracted to work with Meta Reality Labs, to test their Metaverse and Metaverse Avatars
- Managed bug tracking systems efficiently, ensuring all issues were logged, prioritized, and resolved in a timely manner.
- Conducted thorough regression testing of previous builds to verify bug fixes and maintain application stability.
- Provided timely feedback to developers on identified issues, enabling rapid resolution of bugs before launch deadlines.
- Learned how to create tests plans, APK's, and SDK's to ensure the rest of the team had files to conduct weekly test cases.
- Ensured I stayed vocal with team, offering my help to other teams when workload was light.
QA Tester
Free Range Games
06.2021 - 01.2022
- Effectively QA tested 'MVP Football: The Patrick Mahomes Experience'
- Tested combat feel and system for an unannounced project
- Identified bugs, reported them to engineers, confirmed bug fixes, and reviewed game feel.
Jr. Game Designer
Free Range Games
08.2019 - 05.2021
- Balanced and created consumables, health effects, and breakable terrain in 'Return to Moria'
- Implemented damage types and entered data for damage amounts for various weapons
- Collaborated with art team and level designers to add breakable architecture in 'Return to Moria'
- Used debugging techniques to identify and resolve code issues
- Managed craftable items and game functions using data tables
- Collaborated with artists and audio team for NPC dressing, audio cues, and cut scenes for an unannounced AAA UE4 project.
Matter of Great Import
Two Pun
- Worked as part of a college team to create a functional demo for 'Matter of Great Import'
- Assisted in production coordination between designers, engineers, artists, and writers
- Collaborated with musicians and artists for 3D room models
- Created levels, balanced abilities, and interactions for 'Matter of Great Import'.
Education
Master of Arts - Game Design
Academy of Arts University
San Francisco, CA12.2025
B.S. Game Design -
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN05.2021
Skills
- Debugging
- Programming
- Technical Design
- Combat Design
- Dependable and Responsible
- Problem-Solving
- Effective communication
- Unity
- Unreal
- Twine
- Blender
- Godot
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Python
- Java
- C
- C#
- SDK and APK
Timeline
QA Tester
HCL Technologies
01.2024 - 06.2024
QA Tester
Free Range Games
06.2021 - 01.2022
Jr. Game Designer
Free Range Games
08.2019 - 05.2021
Matter of Great Import
Two Pun
Master of Arts - Game Design
Academy of Arts University
B.S. Game Design -
Indiana University Bloomington
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