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Drew LOL'd at this stop-and-go delivery by UPS. Obviously the guy was a paperboy before he moved up to delivering parcels - http://ping.fm/pW13z 35 minutes ago
 
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July 27, 1982

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Drew Sikora

Executive Producer

GameDev net

Lincroft, NJ, USA

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About Drew Sikora

Drew Sikora has been active in the games industry since 2001, when he co-founded the NJ North IGDA chapter with Darrell Porcher, which has since grown to become one of the leading IGDA chapters in the world. He’s been involved with GameDev.net since 2000, becoming Executive Producer in 2006 and working hard with his team of awesome people to make GameDev.net a valuable resource for game developers of all trades. He’s also worked with Game Institute since its conception in 2001, supporting the growing community, managing live seminars on game development topics by experienced industry members and judging the institute’s regular game programming challenges. His past writing credits include three chapters in Game Design Perspectives (published by Charles River Media), contributing to and editing the GameDev.net Collection series, and well over 100 articles and interviews published on GameDev.net covering industry events and game development topics. Since 2008 he’s been mentoring students attending the GDC as part of the IGDA’s scholarship program. In whatever spare time he has he likes to program small game projects whenever he gets the urge.

When he’s not doing anything industry-related, he can be found practicing martial arts, bouncing high on trampoline or tumbling, doing stuntwork, playing his Playstation3, driving really fast in his car or on his motorcycle, hanging with friends or musing about something on his blog www.blade-edge.com

birthday

July 27, 1982

political views

Apathetic

religious views

I find my own Way

hometown

Lincroft, NJ - USA

relationship status

Single

activities

stunt kiting, power kiting, skydiving, rock climbing, kayaking/canoeing, boating, sailing, flying, computer/console/board/card games, gymnastics, martial arts, programming, reading, camping, weapons, cars/bikes, stuntwork

interests

Writing, Reading, Star Wars, Motorcycles, Cars, Guns, Swords

music

Classical, Soundtrack, Instrumental, Techno, Rave, House

tv shows / movies

TV: Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica, My Own Worst Enemy, Sanctuary Movies: Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Stargate, 5th Element, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Bourne, Pitch Black, Terminator, Pirates of the Caribbean, House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Iron Monkey, Jackie Chan, The Incredibles, Ice Age, Monsters Inc., Shrek, Lilo & Stitch, American Pie, Bad Boys, Rush Hour, Men In Black, Hitch

books

Star Wars, Battlefield Earth, Seal Team Seven, Norby Chronicles, Andromeda Strain, Hot Zone, PSI/Net, Calvin and Hobbes, Foxtrot, Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Dragonlord books, Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, Goosebumps, Animorphs

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Drew Sikora LOL'd at this stop-and-go delivery by UPS. Obviously the guy was a paperboy before he moved up to delivering parcels - http://ping.fm/pW13z 35 minutes ago

Drew Sikora consoled himself for his NewEgg purchase fail by eating thru his Amazon.com gift card. Yummy - lotsa books & movies on the way! Bed time now 21 hours ago

Drew Sikora did a quick book exchange at Borders and is now at the movies ready to catch some flicks. Only three on the sched for tonight 1 day ago

Drew Sikora had a yummy dinner of homemade hamburger helper, watching Episode II on Spike. No doubt more games to come afterwards 2 days ago

Drew Sikora is finishing up a book and then passing out, attempting to drag himself and everyone outta bed at 11 to get to the range earlier 2 days ago

Drew Sikora spent some time going over a book chapter and source code for some aquaintences, is now tired an headin for bed 3 days ago

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Drew Sikora's Professional Experience
Executive Producer
2006 - Present
Head of content management for the website as well as chief editor; responsible for article submissions, article/review postings and scheduling, book posting and reviews, poll management. Directly overseeing the product review and news teams. Also in charge of overseeing community management.
Founder, Programmer
2002 - Present
Maintaining company vision, business management, project management and code architecture
Coach
2001 - Present
Teaching regular classes, boys and girls from ages 4-16; coaching girls team when needed; coaching trampoline team whenever we happen to have one
Staff Writer, Newsletter Editor
2001 - Present
Writing up articles on game development and the game development industry including topics such as programming, design and production; covering industry events like industry conferences, topic-centric conferences and local IGDA gatherings. Further tasked with editing, compiling and maintaining the weekly newsletter GDNet Direct.
Community Relations
2001 - Present
Handling customer support and information requests, as well as student issues both within the GI community and in other communities on the Web where discussions of GI may originate. Also judging of GI student challenges and moderating the forums.
Live Events Manager
2006 - 2007
Responsible for managing live seminar events including scheduling, maintaining and directing seminars. Responsible for seeking out new speakers and managing existing speakers. In charge of all event content and distribution.
Programmer
2000 - 2000
(July - November) Experimenting with multiplexing over TCP/IP using windows sockets. Terminated due to lack of funding/company shutting down
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