Jason Walker

Work History

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  Licensing Coordinator

  Square Enix

  February 2012 - Present

  New additional role on top of Mastering Manager. I process and coordinate the submissions for our growing licensing business.
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  Mastering Manager

  Square Enix

  April 2009 - Present

  Acquisition of Eidos by Square Enix.
  Responsible for all code movement within the group. Burning code for the QA department, also burning all disc masters and supplying submission packages for all format holders. Also supplying preview/review code for PR/Marketing etc. Still monitoring the Compatibility/hardware issues within our products.

  

  

  

  

• Voting Member

  BAFTA

  April 2000 - Present
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  Head of Mastering/Compatibility

  Eidos Interactive

  April 1998 - April 2009

  Started as Lead tester before branching out into Compatibility testing, then joined with the mastering team and headed that up. Responsible for all code movement within the eidos group. Burning code for the QA department, also burning all disc masters and supplying submission packages for all format holders. Also supplying preview/review code for PR/Marketing etc. Still monitoring the Compatibility/hardware issues within our products. Also maintain the hardware audit for the qa department (nightmare at best of times)
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  IT engineer

  CTS

  August 1997 - March 1998

  Worked for my `step` uncle up in York after being at Codemasters. Did IT support covering most of the UK. From cabling, to server installation and desktop support. Had fun, but missed games so looked for a games job in March 1998.
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  QA

  Codemasters

  November 1994 - July 1997

  Started as a contracter in the QA department, became effectively QA manager, then moved into IT.