Thomas F. Marciniak's Site

http://tfmarciniak.synthasite.com/

Objective

Continue education, teach and learn from others, create great games, and live a good life.

Experience

1989–1999 Pride of Florida Sumter Correctional Institution, FL

Preproduction

• Trained individuals in the use of camera, plate burning and film layout (stripping).

• Quality control coordinator.

• Initiated Desktop Publishing into the work flow.
  
  
  

2000–2004 odd jobs Southern, FL

Everything from dish washing to delivery

• Learned to speak Spanish.

• Learned to deal with difficult circumstances.

• Learned it is not what you do that identifies you but how you do it.

2005–2006 Skilled Services St. Petersburg, FL

3201 W. Griffin Road
Suite 104
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312 Phone: 954.983.4779

Carpenters Helper

• Utilized Spanish to advance to crew leader.

• Learned much about construction.

  Left with the implementation of an in-house door installation team.

2006–2007 Panther Games Ft. Lauderdale, FL

2101 N. Andrews Ave.
Suite 404
Wilton Manors, FL 33311 Phone: 954.940.0661

Lead Level designer

• One of the founders of the company.

• Created the storyboard and storyline.

  Created promotional material.

• Created work flow

  (note: the company now defunct failed to procure sufficient funds, but it was a great experience.)

2007–2008 Skilled Services (now CLP) St. Petersburg, FL

3201 W. Griffin Road
Suite 104
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33312 Phone: 954.983.4779

Carpenter and Crew Chief

• Took over the in-house door team saved company $375,000.

• Handled Quality Built.

• All Spanish Crew.

• After layoffs of over 100 individuals our crew was one of six left.

• Became a Key Player throughout the entire project.

2008-2009 WebCo Lecanto, FL

2063 N Lecanto Hwy

Lecanto, FL 34461-9675 Phone: 352.746.7917

Customer Service/Tech Support

• Troubleshooting, Tech Support and Product description.

Education

1983–1985 Florida Memorial University Miami, FL.

• GPA 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.L.
  
  
  

  2003–2006 Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale Ft. Lauderdale, FL

• Bachelors of Science Degree in Game art and Design.

• GPA 3.6 on a 4.0 scale.

• Fist to have gaming displays on campus.

• Game club president.

• President’s and dean’s list several times.
  
  

2007–2008 Florida Metropolitan University On=line Ft. Lauderdale, FL

• Work on Masters degree MBA

• GPA 3.17 on a 4.0 scale

(My wife), Game design,Graphics, languages, mathematics, swimming, playing games, building computers, carpentry, computers in general, the sciences, saltwater tanks and just about everything else.

Memberships

IGDA since 2006, Fraternity of Eagles since 2009

Software/Tech

Game Engines; UnrealEd (UE2, UE3) , RealityFactory, Blender and other game editors.

3D, Vector and image manipulation programs; 3DMax, Blender, Adobe (Illustrator, PhotoShop, Premiere.), Corel (Draw, Paint), GIMP, Inkscape, Xarla, Zbrush.

Audio (basics) Audacity, Fruity Loops.

Document creation tools; Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXpress, Mircosoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Scribus, OpenOfficeOrg tools.

Operating systems: All Windows, Ubuntu Linux, Mac os.

Basic programming principles and scripting, C++,C#, XNA. Java. UnrealScript, Lingo.

Personality

Simply don't give up attitude. Easy going and sometimes serious. Open minded. Forgiving. Curious about everything. Quick to understand or learn something new. Focused but can switch gears. Can lead or follow, know my position in hierarchy.