Nicholas Pandzik

Continued work on Guardian Kingdoms with the same team from previous position at Kabam. Responsible for creating and owning dashboards regarding business metrics, game system healths and balance. Feature production; from issue identification, gathering specifications, development, and testing on a 30+ person cross disciplinary development team. Ownership over game systems and balancing on a Mobile MMO RTS, including economy and combat. Assisted in feature prioritization and scheduling based on live data KPIs Handled customer Support ticket investigations and resolutions. Planned and ran regular playtests with the intent of testing and validating changes.

• Collaborating with PMs to define and track KPIs for new features, and with BI to create metrics to monitor the health of existing systems • Managing design milestones and production across a multi-disciplinary team of designers, artists, and developers in a SCRUM based agile workflow • Designing and streamlining tools for internal performance increases • Balance and economy consulting across multiple live titles • Running playtests for feature testing and evaluation • Mentoring designers and onboarding new team members

• Owning game systems from pitch to implementation, supporting and testing them throughout the development cycle • Developing combat and game economy models and maintaining their balance • Programing AI’s of in-game behaviors using an in-house scripting language • Designing interface flow wireframes and UX mockups • Updating and maintaining design documentation across a rapidly changing project

Interface, Systems, Combat, Economy, Monetezation, Level, and Content Design for an unannounced F2P MMO RTS.