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| PERSONAL INFORMATION |
| Name: | Andrea Fryer |
| Birth date: | 9th of January, 1969 |
| Birthplace: | Calgary, Canada |
| Nationality: | Canadian / Finnish |
| Residing in: | Helsinki, Finland |
| Languages: | English (excellent) | Finnish (excellent) |
| E-Mail: |  |
| WWW: | www.andrea.net / www.andreafryer.com |
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| EDUCATION - MAIN STUDIES |
| 1995-2000 | Bachelor of Media Art
Tampere School of Arts & Communications
Tampere, Finland
Main Studies: Media art: Digital Graphics, Graphic Design and Illustration, 2D animation, 3D animation, Video Art and editing, Multimedia, Installation, Serigraphy, Pixellation animation, Web Design
Other Studies: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Comic Art, Game graphics, B&W-, Color-, Digital- and Studio Photography, Multivisions, Manuscripting, Dramaturgy, Lighting, Architectural Lighting, Audio
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| 2000-2005 | Computer Science
University of Tampere | Tampere, Finland |
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| EDUCATION - ADDITIONAL STUDIES |
| 1988 | Commercial Interior Design
Tampere College | Tampere, Finland
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| 1990 | Analytic Problem Solving (APS)
Kepnor Tregoe | Tampere, Finland |
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| WORK EXPERIENCE |
| 2016 - 2018 | Expert Artist
Ubisoft | RedLynx studio | Helsinki, Finland
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| 2014 - 2016 | Lead Artist + Art manager
Ubisoft | RedLynx studio | Helsinki, Finland
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| 2014 - 2014 | Lead Artist
Seriously | Helsinki, Finland
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| 2012 - 2014 | Senior UI & Art Designer + Art supervisor
Ubisoft | RedLynx studio | Helsinki, Finland
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| 2008 - 2012 | Senior Game artist
Digital Chocolate | Sumea studio | Helsinki, Finland
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| 2006 - 2008 | Game artist
Digital Chocolate | Sumea studio | Helsinki, Finland
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| 2003 - 2006 | Senior UI Graphic Designer
Nokia Mobile Phones | Tampere, Finland
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| 2003 | UI Graphic Designer
Nokia Mobile Phones | Tampere, Finland
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| 1998-2000 | New Media Teacher
Teaching various courses at the Tampere School of Arts and Communications and the Tampere University of Technology. Courses were taught in various subjects including Web Design, Photoshop, Digital Manipulation and Internet Technologies. | Tampere, Finland
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| 1996-2000 | Web designer / Graphic Designer
T:mi Andrea Fryer (self employed) | Tampere, Finland
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| 1989-1991 | Quality Inspector
Finnwear | Tampere, Finland
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| 1988 | Technical Artist
Tampereen Kaupungin Asemakaavaosasto | Tampere, Finland
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| AWARDS |
| 2011 | "Most Valued Player" Award
Award given to employees who have contributed to the company in a significant way | Digital Chocolate |
| 1997 | 3rd place
Web Design | Tampere series | Mindtrek |
| 1997 | 2nd place
Web Design | TPO series | Mindtrek |
| 1996 | 2nd place
Interactive Computer Media | Jazzbit 96 |
| 1986 | 1st place
Art category in the junior high class of the Tampere culture competition |
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| EXHIBITIONS |
| 1997-1998 | "My picture your picture"
Sara Hildén Art Museum | Tampere, Finland
See and experience the work I had displayed at this exhibition. |
| 1994 | Personal Art Exhibition
Hervanta Library | Tampere, Finland |
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| PUBLIC SPEECHES |
| 2016 | Learnings from being an Art Lead
Northern Game Summit | Kajaani, Finland |
| 2006 | Member of MMO Panel
Sex in Videogames Conference | San Francisco, USA |
| 2004 | MMO Lecture
Games Day at Nokia | Helsinki, Finland |
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| MEMBERSHIPS |
| 2003 - 2012 | IGDA |
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| OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST |
| 1999 | Jury member
Judging in the "New Media" category for the "Vuoden Huiput" contest | Helsinki, Finland |
| 1997 | Founding a company and going into self employment
T:mi Andrea Fryer is founded |
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COMPUTER SKILLS  = Extensive skill = Mediocre skill = Some skill |
| 2D Graphics |
Photoshop
Illustrator
Spine
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| 3D Graphics |
Sketchup
Blender
ZBrush
3Ds Max
Marmoset
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| Game Engines |
Unity
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| Video |
Camtasia Studio
Premiere
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| Programming / Scripting |
HTML
CSS
SSI
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| Productivity Software |
MS PowerPoint
MS Word
MS Excel
TortoiseSVN
Perforce
Jira
FTP
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| Operating Systems |
Windows
Mac
UNIX
DOS
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| MISCELLANEOUS |
| 1989 | Color Recognition test result: 85 (Excellent) |
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