DC EXERCISE 5: Find a Job

[Incognita Nom de Plume]

Identify 3 companies that you would like (and realistically COULD!) work for. If someone else has already researched them, then you will have to pick another company!

* 1 local/Melbourne
* 1 national/Australia
* 1 international/anywhere else

Write a profile of each, include:

* Company name, URL and contact details
* CEO and (if available) HR or employment person
* Paragraph that outlines the company's core business and history
* Details of any current and, if possible, future projects.
* Identify a position within each comapny that you would like to have -- and one which you could realistically use as an entry point to get there (eg Level designer -- QA).

Companies already being researched are:
Melb.
Ubisoft
Blue Tongue
Iron Monkey
Epic Games
Tantalus
Torus
Big Ant
Transmission Games
Nintendo (melb)
EA (Aust)

National
2K Aust
Acheron
Konami
Krome (Qld)
THQ (Aust)
Half Brick
Atari (aust)
Team Bondi
Microforte
Twilight Software
Red tribe (aus)
Fox Studios (aus)
Infinityward


International
Playfish
Grasshopper
DoubleFine
Square Enix
Rockstar games
Bioware
Pixar
Valve
Blizzard
Capcom
Codemasters
Starbreeze Studios
EA Games
Eidos
Team Ninja
Realtime Worlds

[EeLing Tan]

Company Name: Cotton-On
Company URL: http://www.cottonon.com.au/
CEO: Mr Adam Kay
Contact: 14 Shepherd Court, North Geelong VIC 3215 Australia [phone]
Who are they? A low price fashion retail founded in 1991. The company develope quickly and now consisting 450 stores over australia. Apparel mostly made of cotton material.
Current Collection: Spring 2010
Future Development: Summer Collection 2010
Job Position: Administration, Retail Store Management

Company Name: Wheels and Dollbaby
Company URL: http://www.wheelsanddollbaby.com
CEO: Melanie Greensmith
Contact: 259 Crown Street Darlinghurst 2010. Sydney Australia [phone]
Who are they? Fashion label based in Australia first opened in 1987, starting from local boutique outfit then became an international brand and had featured in various fashion magazine and had quite a few famous ambassadors, famous celebrity clients.
Current Collection : Spring Collection 2010
Future Development: New future design
Job Position: Visual Merchandiser, Buying, Merchandising

Company Name: Stella McCartney
Company URL: http://www.stellamccartney.com
CEO: Stella Nina McCartney
Contact:Stella McCartney Ltd, Chalegrove House, 34-36, Perrymount Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH16 3DN, England.
Who are they? Stella McCartney, a fashion designer started her label as a colloboration with Gucci Group and Adidas. The company then evolved through flagship stores and around 600 luxury stores in major cities worldwide. Becoming a famous fashion designer worldwide.
Currently Collection: Spring 2010
Future Development: Future New Summer Designs
Job Position: Designer, Consultant.

[Nikola Kovacevic]

Infinite Interactive (Local)
URL: http://www.infinite-interactive.com/index.php
Contact: 3/201 Fitzroy St, VIC 3182, AUSTRALIA [e-mail]
CEO: Steve Fawkner.
History: Infinite Interactive was founded in January 2003 by Steve Fawkner, creator and lead designer of the critically acclaimed Warlords series of PC games. The founding members have a total of over 40 years of game development experience between them, bringing the highly praised Warlords I, II, III & IV, and Warlords Battlecry I, II & III.
The company and culture are based on four important principles:
• Quality Gameplay
• Exceptional Technology
• Enhanced Support
• An Enjoyable Work Environment\

Games: Puzzle Quest, Warlord Series.
Future Games: Puzzle Chronicles.
Careers: Static Mesh Modeller.

Auran Games (National)
URL: http://www.auran.com
Contact: Auran, P.O. Box 1026, New Farm 4005, QLD, Australia, www.auran.com/helpdesk
CEO: Greg Lane, Graham Edelsten
History: Established in 1995, Auran first came to prominence with the hit RTS "Dark Reign: The Future of War", which won Strategy Game of the Year in 1997. As one of Australia's oldest and largest game studios Auran has won numerous technology awards and operates from world-class facilities in sunny sub-tropical Brisbane. Auran has constantly been at the leading edge of game technology, including creating one of the world’s first multi-purpose engine Auran Jet which was first released in 2001. Auran was also the first Australian developer to release a Massively Multi-player Online title, FURY in 2007.
Games: Hearts of Iron III, Sam and Max Season 1
Future Games: PT. Boats: Knights of the Sea
Careers: Static Mesh Modeller.

Overworks (Inter-National)
URL: http://www.sega.com
Contact: http://www.sega.com
CEO: ???
History: Overworks (previously called AM7 / Team Shinobi) was the Sega video game development group responsible for series like Skies of Arcadia, Streets of Rage, Revenge of Shinobi, Sakura Wars, and Phantasy Star. In 2004, Overworks was merged with Sega's Wow Entertainment division, best known for the House of the Dead series, to form Sega WOW.
Games: Shinobi, Skies of Arcadia: Legends, Valkyria Chronicles
Future Games: ???
Careers: Static Mesh Modeller.

[Andrew Milton]

Infinite Interactive (local)
URL:http://www.infinite-interactive.com
Contact:
[e-mail]
3/201 Fitzroy St
VIC 3182
AUSTRALIA
CEO:Steve Fawkner
About:Founded in January 2003 by Steve Fawkner, creator and lead designer of the Warlords series of PC games.
Games:Warlords/Battlecry series, Puzzle Quest COTW/Galactrix, Puzzle Kingdoms.
Future Games:Puzzle Chronicles
Jobs:QA, Digital Artist

URL:http://http://www.imaginationgames.com
Contact:[e-mail]
CEO:Shane Yeend
About:Founded 25 years ago in Adelaide, Australia, by Shane Yeend, Imagination Gamesis a global game company with offices in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and UK. Imagination pioneered the concept of “socially interactive entertainment” within the board game industry by creating the DVD game category (through patented DVDi technology, DVD Game Pro). Imagination has created, produced and distributed games in 18 languages across 45 countries. The company's products are sold in over 85,000 retailers worldwide.
Games:DVD Games including; Battle of the Sexes, Deal of No Deal etc.
Jobs:QA, Digital Artist, Designer.

Sony Computer Entertainment(international)
URL:http://http://au.playstation.com/
Contact:
Sony Computer Entertainment Australia Pty Limited
Level 1, 63-73 Ann Street
Surry Hills, NSW 2010 Australia
CEO:Kazuo Hirai
About:game company specializing in a variety of areas in the video game industry, and is a full subsidiary of Sony. The company was established on November 16, 1987 in Tokyo, Japan prior to the launch of the original PlayStation video game system.
Games:Ico, Shadow of the Colossus etc.
Jobs:QA, Digital Artist, Designer.