Sebastian Francois

- Overseeing the localization of projects designated for overseas launch. - Content management. - Researching overseas markets and reporting on new games and market trends. - Designing and executing user research, data analysis and product strategy reports. - Restrategizing marketing and advertising campaigns for the overseas market. - Communicating with various departments to unify publishing direction.

Translating PC, console, and mobile games, including titles such as Black Myth: Wukong, Identity V, Lord of the Rings: Rise to War, Warhammer 40,000: Lost Crusade, 王者荣耀/Arena of Valor, Reverse: 1999, Mobile Legends, Marvel Super War, Langrisser Mobile, Second Galaxy, Ys 6 Mobile, LifeAfter, Ragnarok Online, Alchemy Stars, Omnistone Heroes, The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot, Player Unknown's Battlegrounds, Dragon Oath/天龙八部, Archeland, Affogato, 赵云传, and many, many more.

- Overseeing the localization of projects designated for overseas launch. - Content management. - Evaluating the potential of Chinese titles for overseas distribution. - Researching overseas markets and reporting on new games and market trends. - Designing and executing user research, data analysis and product strategy reports. - Restrategizing marketing and advertising campaigns for the overseas market. - Communicating with various departments to unify publishing direction.

English Localization Consultant Providing proofreading, copyediting, product testing, localization testing and consultation services to one of China’s most successful online gaming companies, including company-wide tuition and advice regarding proper English usage and style. During my time at Changyou, I have devised continuous improvement strategies, contributed to marketing and branding campaigns, participated in marketing events and games conferences and effectively optimized communication channels and workflow to and from the translation department. - Proof-Reading: Meticulously checking translated documents. - Localisation Testing: Ensuring localized assets are correctly translated; teaching colleagues about Western culture and how to improve their language skills. - Marketing: Writing slogans and advertising text for games, providing publishers with suitable official titles for new releases and researching and reporting on new Western markets and products. - Voice-over: Providing voice-overs for trailers, websites and in-game sequences. - Consultation: Providing feedback and criticism on new projects and evaluation the translation team’s performance and progress each quarter, as well as providing group and one-on-one English training to departments and senior management staff.

- Proof-Reading: Quickly and accurately comparing text files with in-game text. - Localisation Testing: Ensuring localized assets are correctly translated. - Writing Reviews: Producing reviews on upcoming titles. - Marketing: Creating attractive screen shots and footage to be used in product marketing.

- Functionality Testing: Maintaining a high level of attention to detail to find deviations from the correct design and functionality of Sega's upcoming titles.

- Locating Programming Defects: Maintaining a high level of attention to detail to find defects and programming flaws and giving feedback based on predetermining test plans - Leading teams through test plans.

Sociology and Philosophy Film Studies and French

French