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2005 to WORLD OF WARCRAFT, Horde, Cenarius

Present Position: Priest Class Lead

Responsibilities: Primary Holy Priest for The Unnamed. Acted as primary healer for up to 40 individuals simultaneously. Attended large percentage of guild raids and events. Raided all top level dungeons including Molten Core and Blackwing Layer.

●Consistently ranked number 1 healer for attended raids

●Shortest play time to level 60 for priest class in guild history

●Guild Veteran, only player to be awarded both Onyxia’s Head and the Heart of Hakkar in a single night

●300 level Gnome Engineer and Miner

2001 to DARK AGE OF CAMELOT, Albion, Gawaine

2005 Position: RvR Captain

Managed guild realm vs. realm combat for Northwind Highlanders. Lead regular guild raids in both PvP and PvE environments.

●Ranked top 10 Theurgists of all time in Realm Points for Gawaine server

●Five RvR ranked level 50s across three realms (Albion, Midgard, Hibernia)

●Guild officer on three servers

●1000+ Spellcrafter on two servers

●Co-founder and Guild Leader of Deadly Grace

1999 to EVERQUEST, Tarrew Mar

2001 Position: Guild Flunky, Warrior

Yet another warrior in a large guild. Whacked everything as instructed by guild leaders and elders. Held agro when necessary.

●Guild dueling champion for players under level 65

●Guild guide for new players in all low level areas

1991 to JediMUD at NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA

1994 Position: System Programmer and Game Administrator

Ported JediMUD to Silicon Graphics IRIX variant of UNIX. Managed all aspects of game play and system administration.

●Authored several game modules including Wild Wild West, Middle Earth Adventures, Superworld

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STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA

2006 Master of Arts, Learning Design and Technology, School of Education

Master’s Project: Windows into Other Realities, helping gamers collaborate with actual people in the classroom

Subject: Avatar / Human interaction, the impact on classroom collaboration

CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, Pomona, CA

1991 Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems

1994 Master of Business Administration, Information Management

P u b l i c a t i o n s

Computer Games and Learning Ability (Cal Poly Pomona, 1994) – A study to identify the marketing implications

of the effects of playing computer games on undergraduate study skills and learning ability.

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2001 to TEACHER AND CONSULTANT, Alameda, California

Present Responsibilities: Design and deliver multiple courses regarding technology and communications.

Also, consulted with several small businesses and individuals on technical and networking issues.

●Careers in Computer Game Testing (High School)

● MS Office, all applications

●Networking, hardware, software, management

●Internet, WWW, HTML

●Digital Photography and Photoshop

●Specialized in Adult and Older Adult (65+) courses

2000 to ZHONE TECHNOLOGIES, Oakland, California

2001 Position: Director of Technical Support

Responsibilities: Manage all aspects of international technical support, all product lines.

●Designed corporate product development and issue escalation process

●Managed multi-million dollar budget

●Responsible for 32 employees

1997 to ASCEND COMMUNICATIONS / LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, Alameda, California

1999 Position: Director of Technical Support

Responsibilities: Manage tech support call center and oversee software release process.

●Managed corporate FTP server and software distribution

●Designed and constructed corporate-wide network to support multiple high-bandwidth divisions

●UNIX Specialist

●Organized department-wide STARCRAFT tournament and ladder competition

1994 to SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE / MICROPROSE SOFTWARE, Alameda, California

1997 Position: MIS Manager

Responsibilities: Manage all information technologies, systems, and services.

●Implemented first institutional corporate e-mail messaging system

●Designed and constructed corporate-wide network to support multiple high-bandwidth divisions

●Employee of the Year, 1996

●Star Trek: A Final Unity - Received in-game credit for supporting development and art teams

1991 to NASA/JET PROPULSION LABORATORY, Pasadena, CA

1994 Position: System Programmer and Network Administrator

Designed and implemented two projects: TOPEX/Poseidon, a join project with CNES in France studying physical

oceanography and ocean circulation. EOS, NASA’s Mission to Planet Earth.

●Co-developed HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) extension to early HTML standard

●Managed all group computer systems and local area network

●Two-time recipient of NASA’s Group Achievement Award

O t h e r C o m p u t e r G a m e E x p e r i e n c e

- Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates - Civilization / Civ Net - Second Life

- Brain Age - Runescape - Diablo (I and II)

- Master of Orion II - Starcraft - Warcraft (I, II, and III)

- Star Trek: A Final Unity (credit) - Mario (everything) - Joust (all-time high score)

- Pong (the original) - Zork - Infocom Text Adventures

- Atari 2600 - Commodore 64 - Mac and PC

V i d e o G a m e Q u a l i f i c a t i o n s B r i e f

JAMES K. SCARBOROUGH

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