Curriculum Vitae

Name: Marque Pierre Sondergaard, Danish citizen

Smoking: Non-smoker

Location: Ready to relocate globally.

Phone: (+44) (0) 7903171042

Education

2005 - 2006 MA Digital Games degree at Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool

2002 - 2005 BA (Hons) 2.1 degree in Computer Games Design at University of Teesside in Middlesbrough.

1^st year: Animation Principles 1-2, Creative Drawing 1-2, Introduction to 3D Modelling for Games, Digital Imaging, Narrative Structure and

Introduction to Games.

2^nd year: Games Production, Games Design, Animation for Games, 3D Modelling for Games, Image Manipulation for Games, Computer

Animation Technology and User Interfaces for Games.

3^rd year: Practical Project, Games Development, 3D Effects for Games, Games Futures and Advanced Animation Practise

1995 - 96 Studied one year of the BSc in Business and Management at Copenhagen Business School in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Modules studied: Commercial Law, Statistics for Business, Commercial History and Sociology, and Commercial Information Technology Application.

1991 - 94 International Baccalaureate in Business and Economy at Hillerod Business College.

Work Experience

06 Temp Office Admin for Manpower

Answering phone calls,

02 – Difficulty-/Alpha-/Beta Tester for a multitude of games developers

Testing for difficulty, bugs and gameplay issues for companies such as Reflections, Ubisoft, EA, Ensemble Studios, Monolith, Sony Online

Entertainment, NCSoft, Atari and Relic. For an exhaustive list click here.

03 – 04 Mentor under the NMPP for DfES and University of Teesside, Middlesbrough

Working on a one-on-one basis with a portfolio of college students to raise their motivation, ambitions and coach them to fulfil their personal

and academic potential. I won the Mentor of the year award for 2004.

03 – 04 Tour Guide for the School of Computing and Math, University of Teesside

Showing prospective students and their families around the campus; Answering questions about student life in the Teesside area.

02 – 03 Team member with Kentucky Fried Chicken, Middlesbrough

Handling customers and orders at the till, preparation of food in the kitchen and general cleaning of restaurant and kitchen areas.

00 – 02 Crew member with Burger King, Copenhagen, Denmark

Preparation of food in the kitchen, cleaning of restaurant and kitchen areas and servicing customers at the till. I primarily worked graveyard

shifts on weekend nights.

99 – 02 Marketing Associate with Approximity GmbH, Germany

Responsible for all outbound market communication in the start-up stages of Approximity. Furthermore consulting the top management on strategic issues as well as helping writing scientific papers supporting the business application of the research and technological know-how withheld in the company.

01 Office Assistant with Manpower, Copenhagen, Denmark

Various temporary office jobs for Manpower. Ranging from internal mail delivery, running errands, accounting and database handling to typing, data

registration and word processing.

00 – 01 Customer Service Assistant with Euro909, Soborg, Denmark

Servicing incoming customer calls and inquiries. Add to that lighter accounting, maintenance of customer information in databases and other administrative

duties.

97 - 00 Project Manager with CONFEX Danmark A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark

Responsible for development and management of a personal portfolio of business conferences. Tasks including project management, editorial

research and analysis, writing of reports, correspondence, marketing and conference materials. My conferences broke records for tickets sold

and revenue generated. During the execution of conferences I doubled as moderator. I worked with educating the employees of CONFEX in

written communication through lectures and coaching.

98 – 99 Cleaning Assistant with ISS, Copenhagen, Denmark

Night shift cleaning on weekends in cinemas. Tasks including vacuuming carpets, washing floors and cleaning toilets.

98 - 99 Telemarketer with Trygg-Hansa Insurance, Copenhagen Denmark

Part time work with selling insurance policies. Canvassing, policy calculations and contract writing, follow-up and counselling.

97 - 98 Freelance Consultant with Korntved & Ko/Loyalty Group International - Denmark

Counselling and sales regarding customer and employee loyalty programmes and innovation analysis to corporate accounts. Work with analysing, strategies and implementation for companies.

97 Project Manager with PRO/2 Bureau for Dialogue Marketing, Copenhagen, Denmark

Responsible for a portfolio of customers, marketing campaigns and industries. All aspects of sales work, management and execution of business-to-business marketing campaigns.

96 - 97 Recreational travels to USA, Norway, Italy, Mexico and France.

95 - 96 Senior Investment Advisor with stockbrokers Copenhagen Investment Group

Headhunted to C.I.G. because of my successes at K&P. All aspects counselling and sales work regarding trading with financial instruments on the European stock indexes and leading bonds. Responsible for a personal portfolio of both private and corporate accounts. Coaching of other Investment Advisors.

94 - 95 Investment Advisor with stockbrokers Krogmann & Partners A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark

All aspects counselling and sales work regarding trading with financial instruments on the English stock index FTSE. Responsible for a personal portfolio of both private and corporate accounts. Best selling Investment Advisor at K&P. I personally increased company sales 23% in 10 months.

Work-related Qualifications

Public Talks: I am an experienced educator. For several years I have given talks, as a part of the teaching, to the students at Hillerod Business College. Through my involvement with different associations I have delivered talks for audiences consisting of up to 600.

IT: I work effortlessly with the Microsoft Office software including Project, the Windows environment and Microsoft’s software in general. Add to that experience

in SAP R/3, Oracle, AS/400, Lotus Notes, Concorde XAL, Axapta, SuperOffice and a long list of graphics software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, 3ds Max,

Maya and Softimage XSI. I use the Internet actively in my work, and can also produce web pages.

Languages:

English: I master written and spoken English.

Danish: This is my mother tongue.

Italian: I speak and write Italian.

German: I speak and write German.

Scandinavian: I speak and write the Scandinavian languages Norwegian and Swedish.

Kiswahili: I speak Kiswahili.

Memberships

I am a member of the National Geographic’s Society, Toastmasters International, International Games Developer’s Association, Danish Data Association and Danish

Shareholders Association.

I founded the University of Teesside Students Union Games Studies Society. Today I serve as Communication Officer and somewhat of a Nestor, and apart from

representing the society formally in writing and speaking, I invite speakers from the games industry to come and meet our members.

Awards

2004 I was awarded the honours of being named Mentor of the Year at University of Teesside. Representing University of Teesside I went to London to compete for the national honours, where I got an honourable mention.

2003 Competing with students worldwide, I won one of 25 scholarships offered by the IGDA for the Games Developers Conference Europe 2003.

Hobbies

Obviously I love games of all sorts. But I also appreciate a good book. I like to read about fine arts, behavioural psychology, indigenous tribes or business strategy.

I coach freeclimbing and have personally been competing on national level. For four years I was coaching and managing a basketball team. Something that has

taught me a great deal about coaching and motivation.