Evan T. Chen

Champion and develop company-wide audio discipline initiatives and best-practices.
Creative game audio experience direction, ownership, and execution.
Manage and mentor internal sound teams; hiring and supervising external sound vendors.
Dialog, Foley, and sound effects recording, editing, and design; music editing; game sound mixing.
Implementation with proprietary tools, Maya, and audio middleware Wwise and FMOD.
Audio programming and software engineering tools, pipeline automation, and DSP (Python).
Game technical sound and systems design.
Sound facility acoustics and equipment research and recommendations.
Exploring machine learning methods paired with procedurally-generated techniques for game sound.

Unannounced next-gen project
StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops
StarCraft II: Legacy of The Void
StarCraft II: Heart Of The Swarm
Diablo III  (as Senior Sound Designer, GANG Winner: Audio of the Year)
Additional sound contributions for Heroes of the Storm, Overwatch, Warcraft III: Reforged, trailers, eSports, conventions, exhibitions, branding, and cinematics.

Lead Sound Designer on Starhawk during my tenure using Sony's proprietary SCREAM audio engine.
Remote audio direction of team Sound Designers from Sony’s central sound services group.
Audio contributions for Killzone 3, Twisted Metal, and other projects

Project aesthetics, scoping, scheduling, and managing team audio artists and contractors.
Implementation and integration using Miles, FMOD, and proprietary audio tools.
Sound effects, foley, and dialogue recording, editing, processing, and mixing.
Music editing, mixing, and integration.
Audio for podcasts, special venue, trailers, and marketing events.

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberium Twilight  (as Sound Design Lead)
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath  (as Audio Lead)
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth  (GANG Winner: Best Cinematic/Cut-Scene Audio)

Developed the inaugural film sound curriculum. Classes on post-production workflow, location sound recording, audio fundamentals and post, including sound editing, ADR, Foley, and mixing, adjunctly with UCLA Extension. Sound for motion picture with Digidesign (Avid) Pro Tools. Facility design consultation and equipment selection.

Assistant for film and television sound recording, editing, and mixing sessions. Studio session audio and video equipment preparation, alignment, and room calibration. Audio laybacks to video and timecode sync sound dailies.

Programmed quality control scripts for the Audio Precision System One audio analyzer to automate audio fidelity testing of the Alesis ADAT professional digital multitrack recorders during manufacturing.

Quality Control during the development and transfer from analog originals of Lucasfilm's digital sound effects library database application.