Games Fleadh GamesPro : Digital Game Professionals Speakers for Thu March 22nd 2018
| Speaker | Organisation | profile | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claire Doherty | LIT |  | Hi Everyone! My name is Claire Doherty- I graduated from Limerick Institute of Technology (Thurles Campus) in November 2014, with a degree in Social & Community Studies. Two years ago, I began working with the Student Support Services team here in the Thurles campus, which has enabled me to continue to progress in my career. I was extremely fortunate to receive a Masters scholarship here with Limerick Institute of Technology in 2017- an extremely exciting opportunity. The research is based around, an extensive project in collaboration with Limerick Institute of Technology & Youth Work Ireland- Tipperary. Exploring the potential of using multiplayer gaming environments as a means of engaging young people in youth work. Primarily this project will be delivered, using a youth work approach as a means of effectively engaging with participants. On completion of this project there will exist in a 3 dimensional virtual environment, a place called youth town. This town will have the characteristic of any medium sized town & will be adapted for play in the multiplayer online gaming environment similar to MineCraft. The layout of the town,will be planned and executed by the youth participants, involved with this project. Looking forward to seeing you all soon! |
| Ian Dunbar | Romero Games |  | Ian Dunbar is an independent game designer and a gameplay programmer at Romero Games. A graduate of the Master’s degree in Games and Playable Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Dunbar three games in 2017: Gunman Taco Truck, a featured App Store game, WARPCOP III, and Barf Royale, alongside numerous game jams and month-long projects. He likes to experiment with new tools to play games and has made a number of games using the Microsoft Kinect as well as Google's Project Tango tablet. Ian Dunbar is currently participating in far too many tabletop RPG campaigns. |
| Stephen Howell | Microsoft Ireland |  | Stephen Howell is the Academic Program Manager for Microsoft Ireland. In this role he engages lecturers and students of all disciplines and levels with tech talks and curriculum advice. Stephen is a passionate advocate of CoderDojo and Computational Thinking both in and outside the classroom. He developed Kinect 2 Scratch and is a PhD candidate in SMARTLab, UCD on Computational Thinking education with kinaesthetic learning. Before joining Microsoft he was a software engineer and Computing lecturer on software development education and games based learning. |
| Milan Culibrk | EA |  | Milan was born and raised in Belgrade, Former Yugoslavia where he obtained his Master of Science degree in Mathematics. During his post graduate studies, his area of research was Differential Geometry (with main focus on slant immersions and Lie Groups). Milan started his software development career back in 1994 when he joined a small software development company that was building analytical applications for CAD industry. In 2002, Milan moved to Vancouver, Canada where he started his video game development career and has been developing video games ever since. Throughout his video game development career, Milan was holding various roles such as: Physics Engineer, Systems Engineer, Lead Programmer, Technical Director, Senior Engineer. Milan is currently member of Quality Engineering department of Electronic Arts where he is leading architectural design efforts for quality verification software platform for Electronic Arts. In his free time, Milan enjoys hiking in Vancouver’s North Shore area. |
| Alex Mann | EA |  | Alex graduated from Computer Games Technology at Manchester Met University in 2011 before moving over to Galway to start working with Electronic Arts. He’s gone from being on the front lines talking to players to being a trainer & presenter for multiple EA sites, to working around Quality Assurance on EA’s latest games. Most recently he’s working as a Development Manager for our Quality engineers based in Galway. He enjoys gaming in all forms and most platforms, and is a passionate tech-head who’s a passionate early-adopter and always chasing around emerging technologies. In his free time he enjoys more gaming, browsing online and tinkering with home automation – that and chasing after his two Siamese kittens! |
