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Finishing up our Sumo Sheffield list for this edition of MCV/DEVELOP is OSCAR BIGGS, who joins Sumo Sheffield as a Producer following time spent at
Automaton Games and Frontier Developments. Oscar also used to work at a GameStop in Wisconsin.
FRANCISCO NICOLAU is now a Programmer at Red Kite Games, in what is their first games industry role. They have a BSc and MSc in Computer Science and
Engineering IST from Lisbon University, and have won several competitions.
LAB42 Games has hired LUKE VILJOEN as a Senior Concept Artist. Their career started in 2009, so they’ve been at this for a while. Luke previously worked at
Team17, 2K Australia, Tasty Poison Games, as well as having done time as a freelancer.
CARINA SOFIA OLIVEIRA SOARES has become a Junior Environment Artist at Lab42 Games. She was initially a contractor, but impressed the team so much
that they hired her as a full time staff member. Alongside freelancing, she used to teach online classes in 3D art.
EUGENE CHERNY is an audio programmer at Sumo Nottingham now, having moved to the UK from all the way over in China. He is interested in both art and
academia, having dabbled a little bit in both professionally in the past.
JUAN SEBASTIAN MUGURUZA has become a Technical Director at Sumo Nottingham, in his latest games industry role. He initially started out in the
industry as a gameplay programmer but shifted tracks as he loves character-driven gameplay, mechanics and systems.
MAREK BERKA is Sumo Nottingham’s newest Project Design Director. He has worked on some big names since the start of his career in 2003, including Mafia II at
Illusion Softworks, and Silent Hill: Downpour at Vatra Games. Most recently he worked on Chorus for Deep Silver.
HERNAN BORQUEZ POLLONI will be designing the look of user interfaces at Sumo Nottingham as a Senior UI Artist. While he’s told us he considers himself
a graphic designer, he has over 15 years of industry experience including previous roles as Senior UI Artist, Creative Director and Art Director.
PAUL HOLLYWOOD is the new Development Director at Sumo Leamington. He’s worked in the industry since the days of the Commodore Amiga. He was part of
the team that worked on the pilot sim F-29 Retaliator. He is also known as one of the people behind Sony’s MotorStorm racing franchise on PS3.
ARRAN BLOMFIELD is Sumo Leamington’s new Senior Producer, and joins the team after having worked as a producer on mobile, VR and AAA games
at companies including Creative Assembly, Square Enix and Pixel Toys. He also has a Master’s Degree in Gameplay Design and Production from Staffordshire University.
ASMITE CHAKRABORTY is a Technical UI Designer that has joined the team at Sumo Leamington. She comes to the games industry for the first time following four years
working with the international professional services brand PwC, so this new role must feel quite different.
GARETH SLEVIN-BROWN is Secret Mode’s new QA Technician, who has joined the team after a year as a NHS Operations Centre Action Manager and six
months as a Temporary QA Technician at Codemasters. They also have a Masters in Manufacturing Engineering from Coventry University.
MARY UDOFIA is the new Community Coordinator at Secret Mode. She joins the team having worked in events for the games industry such as EGX. Mary also spent
some time as a full-time content creator, so she’s experienced in community-building and bonding with an audience.
ADAM MEREDITH is now a Senior UE Programmer at The Chinese Room. He has worked in the industry for over 10 years, having previously worked on
console games for d3t, Team17 and Zoe Mode. He also has a BSc. (Hons) in from Abertay University.
Lastly, SEBASTIEN TOTTÉ is the new Senior Country Manager at Xsolla UK. He comes to the company after seven years at Meta. Now that he’s there, he will be
responsible for reaching out to the European games industry and helping to further grow the scope and scale of Xsolla UK.
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