Stuart Whyte

stuartwhyte@btinternet.com

 

Personal Information

 

Marital status:                Single
Nationality:                    British
date of birth:                 15.4.71

 

Education

 

1982 - 1989

St. Ambrose College

Cheshire

11 GCSE O Levels, 4 A Levels + 1 A/S Level

1989 - 1992

Leeds University

Leeds

2ii Degree in Computational Science And Management Studies.

Career History

 

1989-1993

Future Publishing

Bath, Avon

Worked freelance for a magazine, writing a monthly three-page column that included reviews.

Feb 1993 - Mar 1996

MicroProse

Chipping Sodbury, Bristol

Originally employed as a project manager in the Console Games Division.  promoted to producer (and moved to computer games) following the merger with Spectrum Holobyte.

Producer role involved championing and defining the projects, time, cost and quality monitoring, interfacing with management up to board level, building, leading and motivating teams and analysis of possible franchise extensions within project brands. Team sizes on projects varied between four to thirty people.

Projects worked on whilst at Microprose:-

Boo!                                         SNES/Amiga 500
Tinhead                                    SNES/Megadrive                      
Impossible Mission 2025             SNES/Megadrive/Amiga/CD32  
F15                                           Gamegear/Master System        
F15 II                                         Megadrive                              
Gunship 2000                            Amiga A1200/CD32/PlaySTation
Pirates! Gold                           CD32
UFO: Enemy Unknown               Amiga 500/PlayStation
X-COM: Terror From the Deep  PC/PlayStation
Superbike Grandprix                PC
X-COM: Apocalypse                  PC
X-COM: Alliance                      PC

 

Left Microprose after being approached by Content director at Entertainment Online.

 

Mar 1996 – Dec 1997

Entertainment Online (E-On)

Leicester

Originally employed as Technical Manager (later Development Manager) reporting initially to the managing director and then to the content director of E-On as well as interfacing with other members of the E-On board.  Managing a game development studio of internal and external resources including game developers, external programmers, translation houses, artists, QA, PR and marketing. Also instrumental in the layout and structure of the E-On site including the security system, system software and delivery mechanisms.

Projects worked on whilst at E-On:-

Games Manager    PC Win

GamesRoom          PC Win/JAVA

Tank Warrior       PC Win

L5 Assault              PC Win

Majic Realms        PC

Trivia                    JAVA

Twilight Lands      PC Win 95

Iron Wolves         PC Win 95

Hover Race          PC Win

Battlecity              PC Win

Stratagem             PC Win 95

    

Left E-On following closure of the company.

 

January 98 - June 2004

Bullfrog Productions Ltd./Electronic Arts

Guildford

Employed by Bullfrog to be one of their first producers and help introduce the producer role and schedules within an established development company. In Mar 01 I was promoted to the role of senior producer on the Harry Potter franchise.

Projects Worked on whilst AT EA:

NOV 98        Populous The Beginning              PC/PSX         Producer

MAR 99         Populous TB Data Disk                PC               Producer

Jul 99           Dungeon Keeper 2                      PC               Test Manager

Nov 00         Theme Park Inc./SimCoaster        PC               Producer

Nov 01 - jun 04        Harry Potter                    Various        Senior Producer

 

Prototypes worked on:

 

Populous 4

Theme Park 3

.COMbots
 

June 2004 - Present

Lionhead

Guildford

Moved to Lionhead at start of June 2004 as Executive producer.

For more details of the games I’ve worked on please VISIT www.spong.com

 

Interests And Activities

Main interests are socialising with friends, reading, cinema, going to the gym, tennis and playing computer games.

 

Training

 

Appraisal skills                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             One day course on salary and performance                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 appraising.

MS Project                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             One day course ON the use of MS Project

Outdoor Pursuits                                                                                                                                                                                      Three day team building course

P.M.I.P.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Project Managers Improvement program                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 course run for all senior management at                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Microprose UK. The course's aim was to   ESTABLISH management systems for handling p rojects.

Time management                                                                                                                                                                                      One day course ON time management                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       techniques.