Franck Maestre

Current

• Online Lead at Ivory Tower

Past

• Owner-Technical Director at Artefacts Studio
• Online Lead at Eden Games
• Project Manager at Infogrames / Atari

• Military Duty at Infogrames LTD - London
• Middle Study Training: at ICBT (now Reiter group)

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Education

• ESIG
• Lycée J.M Carriat

Recommended

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Connections

250 connections

Industry

Computer Games

Websites

• My Website

Franck Maestre’s Summary

-Official UDP Packet Transporter :)
-Unofficial Pixel & Vertex Shader destroyer :(

Franck Maestre’s Experience

• Online Lead

  Ivory Tower

  (Computer Games industry)

  January 2008 — Present (2 years )

  Game:
  ---Unnanounced

• Owner-Technical Director

  Artefacts Studio

  (Computer Games industry)

  2002 — December 2007 (5 years )

  -co- founder
  -recruited & managed technical teams
  -relationship with customers
  -lead the Technical Design and coded some of the in-house technologies/tools.
  -Xbox/PS2/PC and Nintendo DS game prototypes, network libraries.
  -some consulting (Eden / Asobo Studio / Widescreen Games)...
  
  Games:
  ---MotoRacer NintendoDS
  ---Petanque / PC
  ---Code de la Route /NintendoDS

• Online Lead

  Eden Games

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  July 2004 — September 2007 (3 years 3 months)

  Games:
  ---Testdrive Unlimited Xbox360 / PC
  ---Testdrive Unlimited 2 Xbox360 / PC / PS3
  
  -MMORG Design (client & server side core libraries) /
  -Resource Streaming & uncompressing /
  (filesystem abstraction used for Xboxlive Additional Content)
  -Multithreading libraries on PC/360
  -Encryption and communications proxies on PC (design & development)
  
  -Multiple Rewards on seamless Online Integration & the "no loading time" assigned to the title.

• Project Manager

  Infogrames / Atari

  (Public Company; Computer Games industry)

  1991 — 2003 (12 years )

  -Project Manager:
  ---Game: Urban XTribe (Playstation2) (17 people team)
  -Project Manager:
  ---R&D :New medias Dpt (5 - 9 people team)
  ---Game: Netlife Alpha (Space conquest MMO)
  -Project Manager:
  ---Whole client/server management (Gaming Dpt ISP Provider (3-5 people team) (mainly Sun Microsystem Servers/Solaris).
  -System Programmer:
  ---French's 2nd center server (AT&T 3B2 / Unix System V, Data General Aviion/ DG-Ux , PC / SCO Unix)

• Military Duty

  Infogrames LTD - London

  (Computer Games industry)

  November 1992 — October 1994 (2 years )

  Helped in various aspect of the development of the british Infogrames' subsidiary.

• Middle Study Training:

  ICBT (now Reiter group)

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 1990 — October 1990 (5 months)

  R&d Team / Valence:
  Worked on a prototype on a production supervision solution for the textile in tires production, in partnership with Michelin Valence.
  Solution has been exposed at TEXWORLD exhibition( http://www.texworld.com )
  (mainly on HP Apollo / HPUnix and Merlin Gerin Automats)

Franck Maestre’s Education

• ESIG

  BTS, Informatique Industrielle: , Architecture des systemes,electronique,low level programming MC68xxx,MC88xxx,ARM,Z80,Microcontrolers , 1989 — 1991

• Lycée J.M Carriat

  Baccalaureat E , Science / Maths / Technology , 1987 — 1989

Additional Information

Franck Maestre’s Websites:

• My Website

Franck Maestre’s Groups:

video game industry

•    Facebook.com
•    Game Connection
•    FREE ONLINE MMORPG & MMO GAMES | MMO hub.org
•    Game Developers
•    David Perry's Game Industry Map Group.
•    Game Developers Conference®
•    Game Creator's Network
•    International Online Developers Association for Games
•    Game Credits
•    VideoGame Professionals
•    ATARI - Current and Former Employees
•    FB Applications / Games

Franck Maestre’s Honors:

TESTDRIVE UNLIMITED AWARDS & NOMINATIONS

Industry Excellence Award 2006 - Best use of Online (Testdrive Unlimited X360)
Edge - Best Online Game 2006 (Testdrive Unlimited X360)
Best of Awards:BoomTown
Game of the Year : EToyChest
Best Driving Game of 2006
Extreme Gamer
Racing Game of the Year
Edge Online
Game Revolution
Best of 2006 - RACING GAME OF THE YEAR
Game Shark
Game of the Year Awards 2006 - Best Racing Title
GameTrailers
Best of E3 2006 Awards - Best Racing Title
GameZone
Best of 2006 - Racing Game of the Year (Xbox 360)
Game Review Awards
TeamXbox.com
Game Critics Award
Best of E3 2006 - Best Racing Game Nominee
GameSpot
Best and Worst of 2006 - Best Driving Game Nominee
GameSpot
Best and Worst of 2006 - Most Improved Sequel Nominee
Gamespot
E32006 Editor's Choice Awards - Best Racing Game Finalist
IGN
Game of the Year 2006 - Best Racing/Driving Game Nominee (Xbox 360)
TeamXbox.com's Best of E3 2006 Awards