Tom Coxen
Worthing, England, United Kingdom-linkedin.com/in/tomcoxen
Summary
Music Technology, Games and Software Development Educator & QA
Experience
Marker for Sound & Music For Games
BIMM Institute
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021 (1 month)
Final Assessment marking for Level 6 Sound & Music for Games
Computer Games Tutor
Dv8 Sussex
Sep 2020 - Present (7 months +)
Level 3 Games Design and Development Teacher
Reverb Tester
Liquid Sonics
Jul 2019 - Present (1 year 9 months +)
Ongoing beta testing for Lustrous Plates, Seventh Heaven, Cinematic Rooms and Reverberate 3
Marker for Sound & Music For Games
BIMM Institute
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020 (1 month)
Assessment 1 marking for Level 6 Sound & Music for Games
Unity & FMOD Content Creator for Sound & Music For Games
BIMM Institute
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020 (1 month)
Audio editing and C# development for teaching materials in Unity & FMOD for Level 6 Sound & Music
for Games
Lead Computer Games Tutor for 'Level Up!'
Dv8 Sussex
Feb 2020 - Jul 2020 (6 months)
Games Design and Development Teacher for the Level Up! Program. Successfully helped three
quarters of the class to move onto studying at Level 3
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Academic Course Approval Panelist
BIMM Institute
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020 (1 month)
Course approval from the Filmschool
DAW & Audio Plugin Tester
Tracktion Corporation (Audio Squadron)
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020 (1 year 6 months)
DAW & Plugin Beta Tester
Academic Course Approval Panelist
BIMM Institute
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020 (1 month)
Approval panel for new joint honours degrees
All Products Tester
Mixed In Key
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019 (2 years 4 months)
Award winning Captain Plugins beta tester expanded to all products
Sigmod Tester
NUGEN Audio
Jun 2019 - Present (1 year 10 months +)
Nugen beta tester and ongoing bug reporter
MDrummer Preset Maker
Melda Productions
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018 (2 months)
Drum kit preset design and mixing for Melda Productions MDrummer 2018
Loopcloud Tester
Loopmasters Ltd.
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017 (3 months)
Beta Tester for the first iteration of LoopCloud
Self Employed Creative Technologist, Founder & Managing Director
Flash Quartermaster Ltd
Jan 2002 - Dec 2016 (15 years)
Flash Quartermaster has been operating as a sole trader since 2002 providing various software
development and testing services.
Flash Quartermaster became a limited company in August 2011.
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Founder At Give For Free
Flash Quartermaster Ltd
May 2016 - Nov 2016 (7 months)
Designed concept and founded this non-profit that has been created to raise money for other charities
primarily through interaction with a cross-platform app.
The app is open source and available here: https://github.com/flashquartermaster/Give-For-Free
I have been responsible for the recruitment, administrative and technical considerations fulfilling the
roles of project manager, architect, developer, designer and automated tester.
Games Developer
Gamesys
Feb 2013 - Mar 2015 (2 years 2 months)
Actionscript developer on the Facebook social game Here Be Monsters working on the User Interface
and the games designers tools.
Flex/Air Lead Developer (Streaming)
Digital Theatre
Mar 2012 - Sep 2012 (7 months)
Re-designed and re-developed a streaming and download desktop media player. Prototyped an iPad
solution in Objective-C
Visiting Lecturer on Streaming Media
ITV
Apr 2012 - Apr 2012 (1 month)
Invited to talk on BDD software development techniques for streaming media
iPlayer Senior Software Engineer/Developer In Test
BBC
Aug 2011 - Mar 2012 (8 months)
Project managed and developed the open source BDD solution Cuke4AS3 which allowed
ActionScripters the chance to work with Cucumber. Cuke4AS3 was promoted at the BBC Academy and
appeared in two technical books on the subject.
Education
BIMM Institute
MA Teaching & Learning in Creative Industries, Education
2019 - 2022
Greater Brighton Metropolitan College
BA (Hons) Music Production, Music
2017 - 2018
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