Last week may have been a busy week for the social gaming developer community, but since then, the hiring rate has almost completely stopped cold, according to the data found on LinkedIn. In light of this, we took the opportunity to expand our coverage further to two more social developers who have been active in at least the past two weeks, Digital Chocolate and Nightclub City creator, Booyah, in order to get a broader scope of just what is happening out there.
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Here is the list:
- Bryan Bernal – Though the addition is from last week, Booyah‘s Nightclub City may be getting a new beat, as Bernal, the former Project Manager of Insomniac Games, joins the team as its new Music Supervisor.
- Vishwanathan Subramanian – Formerly a Project Manager for Indiagames Ltd., Subramanian is now an Associate Ops. Manager for Digital Chocolate.
- Sami Marsch – Another update from last week, as Marsch gets a promotion within the Digital Chocolate team, moving up from Junior Game Artist to Game Artist.
- Tom Margolis – A former Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Margolis joins Playdom as its newest Java Developer.
- Shah Rahman Tapan – Tapan joins Playdom as a CG Artist Consultant for their Game Department. Previously, he was a CG Artist for trippertlabs.
- Jon Rick – Bringing experience as an Engineer for Hewlett-Packard, Rick joins Playdom as a 3D Artist.
- Steven Kollars – Stemming from the Google acquisition of Slide, Kollars shifts his Software Engineer role from the Slide tag to the Google tag.
- Christopher Rhodes – Continuing the Google transition, Rhodes changes from a Senior Flash Engineer under Slide to a Software Engineer under Google.
- Jason Rubenstein – Now a Software Engineer under Google, Rubenstein was a Senior Software Engineer under Slide.
- Anderson Vitous – Previously a MySQL Architect with Slide, Vitous becomes a Database Administrator.
- Hai Guan – Guan joins the Zynga team as their newest Analyst. Prior to this, he was a Quantitative Analyst for Union Bank.
- Paul Murphy – With experience as a Writer and Game Designer for Firaxis Games, Murphy joins Zynga as a new Senior Game Designer.
- Edward LeBreton – Previously an Online Marketing Manager Intern for Electronic Arts, LeBreton becomes a new Product Manager for the folks over at Zynga.
Source: Inside Social Games
Friday, August 20, 2010