Zac North
Email: znorth@z-machines.com

SUMMARY
For many years, I have been active in creating, organising and maintaining a community for artists who are fans of the "MYST" game series. Eventually, this community became officially sanctioned by Cyan Worlds, the creators of the game, as the only body which can extend and create new levels for the game. It currently has over 1,300 members who are active in extending the game with content. At the same time, I have started a corporation, and have been working on independent games and game art (environment art, modeling and lighting) for the past four years.

MAJOR SKILLS
• Web design (Photoshop)
• Web programming and implementation (HTML5, CSS3, and PHP)
• Community building
• Community management
• Graphic design (Photoshop, Illustrator)
• Video and audio production design (Premiere, After Effects, Audition)
• Team building
• Environment art (Blender, Photoshop, Genetica)
• 3D modeling (Blender)
• Texture design (Photoshop, Genetica)

SOFTWARE SKILLS
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Text editors w/ highlighting (Notepad++ and TextWrangler)
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Microsoft Word
• Genetica 3
• Blender 3D
• Unreal Engine 3
• Unity3D
• PyPRP (the open-source exporter for Cyan's Plasma engine that I and my colleagues reverse-engineered and developed)

WORK EXPERIENCE
Guild of Writers
(September 2007 - Present)
• Helped found this group in September 2007
• Created the design and implementation for their website including a homepage, forum and wiki
• Contributed to code on their main content creation tool, PyPRP
• The Guild of Writers is a group working to extend MYST Online: URU Live by Cyan Worlds, Inc.
• We are endorsed by Cyan and are currently working with them to add content to their new venture, MYST Online URU Live Again (MOULa)

Authentic Experiences, Inc.
(June 2005 - Present)
• Founded the company in June 2005
• Founded on the premise that passion is a must to create a good game or product
• Have worked on creating new, innovative adventure and RPG game properties
• Currently serving as CEO