Game Master/Moderator - June 2006 - July 2008 - Gameforge GMBH

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

Name: Petar Spiridonovic

Street/Country: Hadzi Ruvimova 33, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia
Mobile phone: 381-65-4132388
Email: [email protected]
Skype: Fleisher.fleisher
Work Experience
Game Master/Moderator – June 2006 – July 2008 – Gameforge GmbH
I was a part of large scale teams managing several ‘realms’ and ‘servers’ of various Gameforge
games. I used to moderate OGame.org/ba and Tanoth.com/Gladiatus.com browser games as well as
being a Game Master in 4Story/Gates of Andaron servers.
Day to day work included cleaning up the forums from non-wanted/trash posts and threads,
communicating with the players via private messages and suggestion/issue part of the forum,
communicating with the supervisors via team sections of the forum/IRC.
Team Manager/Localization Support - August 2008 - September 2010 – Gameforge GmbH,

Germany
During my freelance time at Gameforge I had responsibility to train new Administrators in

using WoltLab forum engines, to moderate official Gameforge IRC channels, to talk to the
community regarding official game/forum updates as well as with the staff and their training
on forum and ingame. Being a Team Manager of a community I was also a connection to
Quality Assurance Team via testing realms. During expansion of the company I was offered a
paid position of Localization support member which I took and I’ve successfully translated
parts of several Gameforge games such as Ikariam.rs/OGame.rs/Bitefight.rs/Tanoth.rs.
Day to day work included checking for fresh 'keys' ( localization sentences and parts that
needed translation ) in internal localization tool we were provided with and translating as
soon as possible. Checking daily work of moderators/administrators of forums, checking
private messages on Gameforge's internal administrator forum and responding to those.
Checking messages on IRC and communicating with the team about future updates/patches.
Checking ingame tools for logs of team members to ensure no one is doing nothing they
shouldn't be doing.
Weekly work included reading administrator reports and reporting to the Community
Manager about what is needed in certain community we have and how to approach day to
day issues ( suspensions, suggestions etc. )
Quality Assurance Manager – September 2013 – February 2013 – Eipix Entertainment
My job was to get an early build of any game company was producing and to test it
thoroughly. From sound in each of the scenes to graphic glitches and game play itself. We
were free to make suggestions how certain levels/parts of the game would look like and
they were most of the time implemented due to our extensive testing experience. We were
making game guides as well as tutorials that were coming with the game on how to beat
every puzzle/hidden object part of the game via screenshots. Our daily routine was starting
with a daily meeting with game producers/senior level designers/sound technicians and
game artists/movie makers. As part of the QA team we had extensive off-the-work training
with BigFish company regarding our game testing skills.
Day to day work included but was not limited to:
Checking Jira for programmer notes, checking SVN for new builds if programmer is absent
from work on that particular day, clearing off the issues list on JIRA and internal tracking
tool by testing the game, chats with programmers/designers/producers about the game and
what would be good to improve/remove or add in it to preserve the genre and to improve
to gameplay.
Housekeeping Bellboy – Deck Supervisor – December 2014 – August 2015 – Cruise and
Maritime Voyages
I was responsible for all issues passengers on the ship may have in their cabin, day or night.
Bringing them food and water, taking orders and trying to fulfil their specific wishes. Days
were busy, there were no days off and we worked average from 9h-13h per day every day.
Every crew members gets off duty assignment in cases of emergency and my job was to lead
muster station consisted of 90+ passengers during ship hull breach/abandon ship and to
guide them to their respective life boats and rafts. During our every 3 rd day duty hours I was
expected to clean and help with decorating crew quarters with other crew members on the
duty. Promoted near the end of my contract to Deck Supervisor.
I was part of the Housekeeping Team and I had a major training how to work with
passengers that were mostly in their mid-twenties to late seventies.
I was awarded Crew Member of the Month during Month of May for my work.
During my time on the ship I was seen as person with perseverance, patience, flexibility,
leadership skills, being responsible, with good work ethics and adaptability to the new
environment due to being only Serbian in a crew of 400 crew members.
OSRS/World of Warcraft private project - Team Manager/QA Lead/MMO Tech –

September 2016 – July 2017
Being a Manager I had tasks from supervising 3 servers and their population to answering
questions and helping players with their issues on forum as well as ingame ticket support. I
was managing a team of developers, quality assurance team and Game Masters and was
coordinating them daily through the tasks and duties we had to do to improve the overall
quality of the project. Testing was also part of the job, working closely with players and
trying to reproduce issues they reported on our Issue tracker. Planning future
patches/improvements with development team and management was done daily,
implementing fixes and solving issues on our test servers and deploying them on live
servers.
Day to day work included: Checking team members ingame logs via internal tools
developed.
Checking ingame for any ticket Game Masters weren't able to answer, overseeing forums
and answering anything left over from moderators and community manager.
Day to day talk with core and database developers regarding future updates and patches,
testing those on PTR servers and following strict procedure of updating live realms.
Announcing and planning future patches as well as ingame events. Discord communication
with the rest of the player base on hour basis about potential issues/ingame cheats and
such. Working with the server owners on taking donations from some community members
to manage server upkeep and stability. Recruiting and training potential Game Master's to
work with the GM tool ingame as well as outgame tool.
Personal:
Certificates in: Fire prevention and Fire fighting; Personal safety and Social responsibility;
Crowd Management, Passenger Safety and Crisis training for personel providing direct
service to passengers in passenger spaces; Proficiency in Security Awarness; Proficiency in
Personal Survival Techniques; First Aid advanced certificate.
Fluent in all Adriatic languages and English

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Curriculum Vitae

Name: Petar Spiridonovic

Street/Country: Hadzi Ruvimova 33, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia

Mobile phone: 381-65-4132388

Game Master/Moderator – June 2006 – July 2008 – Gameforge GmbH

Team Manager/Localization Support - August 2008 - September 2010 – Gameforge GmbH,

During my freelance time at Gameforge I had responsibility to train new Administrators in

Quality Assurance Manager – September 2013 – February 2013 – Eipix Entertainment

Day to day work included but was not limited to:

OSRS/World of Warcraft private project - Team Manager/QA Lead/MMO Tech –

Fluent in all Adriatic languages and English

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