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Todd Macadangdang
Langåsen 38
4513 Mandal
Norway
+47 38263193 Cell: +47 95455827

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Producer/Illustrator for casual games for both online and download play. Illustrator/Art Director for print and online use. Content and community development for buzz and community marketing purposes.

OBJECT
Todd is able to identify and utilize the strength of each team member. Team members feel appreciated and therefore work hard to meet expectations. Todd is wonderful at keeping clients updated and feeling like they’re project is the most important project in the world. He also knows how to handle scope creep by allowing clients to make as many changes as they like within reason, but with a price tag attached. Finally Todd’s organizational skills are matched only by is creative vision and creativity.

As an Illustrator, Todd will can take a concept to final illustration, or execute an illustration based on your detailed requests.

WORK HISTORY
Threeofsix.com, Freelance Project manager 11/95-Present
Todd has served as a Freelance Project Manager/ Producer and Illustrator for a number of projects of the
course of the last 10 years. The following are the more recent, notable projects (more info about each project can be found at www.threeofsix.com):

Client: Disney Online (June 2005)
Pizza Party Pickup
Todd was the Producer for Pizza Party Pickup, which was the number one played game for the SO HOT SUMMER series of casual games. The game which was based on the
Suite Life of Zach and Cody, was a critical success on Disney.go.com. Todd managed a remote team of programmers, artists, animators and an audio technician to deliver the
game on a very tight one and one half week schedule. Todd provided art direction on the project. Todd was instrumental in the game play/design of this top online game.
ARTWORK: Todd created the game logo and opening/information screens, including the splash screen.

Client: VH1, Yahooligans (2005-2006)
Various
In the last six months Todd has also managed a number of reskin projects for Yahooligans, VH1 and MTV. He continue to also create online buzz marketing communities for
both the comic and graphics communities.
ARTWORK: Todd provided art direction.

Client: National Geographic (Nov 2005)
Save The Egg
Todd was the Producer for a promotional casual game for National Geographic Hit movie and DVD March of the Penguins. Todd delivered the game on a very short one week timeline, managing a remote team consisting of a programmer, lead artist, production artist, audio technician and QA member. In addition to moving the project from concept to completion, Todd worked with the client to ensure that the game matched client expectations despite the short development time.
ARTWORK: Todd provided art Direction

Client: Nickelodeon (Feb 2006)
Nicktoon Challenge
Todd was the Producer for Nickelodeon's online and downloadable game suit: Nicktoons Games. Todd worked directly with a group of programmers, art director, QE
member and audio team, to bring the AI based suite of games to GM. On this particular project Todd oversaw both 3D and 2D animations for the game.

Client: Adobe Systems (March 2006- Present)
Illustratorworld.com
Todd is the Project Manager for the community marketing (buzz marketing) web community Illustratorworld.com which is the largest online community for Adobe Illustrator users. He is responsible for feature suggestions/approval for buzz marketing interaction, and manages a lead programmer.

OTHER WORK
Babydoc Software, Fresno, CA 11/94-2/01
Project Manager/Creative Director/Illustrator
- Managed a development team of two programmers, graphic artist, and audio technician/composer.
- Creative direction included artistic look and feel, animations, script adaptation to interactive screen format.
- Lead artist and animator on the project using Adobe PhotoShop for electronic coloring of all original
artwork for interactive musical story books on CD-ROM.

Paramount Publishing’s Computer Curriculum Corp, Sunnyvale, California 10/90-10/94
Multimedia Specialist
- Used Adobe PhotoShop and Electronic Artís Studio 8 to create bit map graphics for Science, Math
Investigations, Early Reading, and ESL modules.
- Photoshop to create montage interface graphics and interface for ‘Choosing Success’ CD-ROM designed
for at-risk teens.
- Used Macromedia Director to create animations for modules and Learning Company consumer CDROM.

Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA 8/06/2001-2005
Quality Engineer
-Develop and execute test case outlines to systematically test Illustrator tools and functions.
- Identify existing and potential ‘bugs’, providing management and engineers with the necessary
information to address and/or correct the problem.
- Interface with software engineers to verify expected behavior for application tools/functions.
- Test application functionality by understanding customer workflows/painpoints and the creation
of ‘real world’ artwork.
- For the last two releases, have had the added responsibility of taking the lead on Gold Master English
and localized content testing, patcher testing and visual asset verification.
- With the current release Todd has become a integral part of the Planet X specific feature functionality
planning, workflow and UI development and testing.