New hires in social games: Social Point, CrowdStar and more

If you want to know who else is hiring, the Inside Network Job Board showcases current openings with the industry’s leading companies.

5th Planet Games

• Miles Deponty, Associate Producer — Deponty graduated from the Art Institute of Sacramento with a Bachelor of Science (BS), Game Art & Design.

Akamon

• Carol Zamora, Customer Service and Support Manager — Zamora was previously with the local airline Spanair.
• Guillaume Esperou, Customer Service Representative — Esperou joins the company from the French multinational CCA International.
• Anna Salomone, Country Manager – Italy — Salomone was co-founder at Bcn Design Lab.
• Javier García, Game Developer — García joins the team in Valencia.
• Juan Antonio Pérez, Game Developer — Pérez also joins the Valencia team.
• Sergio Segarra, Web Developer — Segarra joins the Valencia team as well.

Arooga

• Martin Snelling, Marketing Manager — Snelling has previously held roles at SEGA, Capcom, Amazon.co.uk, Green Man Gaming, Sky TV and Virgin.

Big Fish Games

• Alina Zvonova, Associate Developer Relations Manager — Zvonova was graduated from Central Washington University with a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration.

Crowdstar

• Alanna Anderson, Fashion Content Designer — Anderson was a student at Stanford University.
• Jeffrey Tseng, CEO — Tseng was promoted from his position as co-founder and general manager of products.

Disney Playdom

• Jason Haines, IT, Network Analyst — Haines was network administrator Karuk Tribe.

DoubleDown Interactive

• Alan Wentworth, Online Game Artist — Wentworth was previously associate art director at PLAYSTUDIOS, Inc.
• Andreas Montano, Online Games Producer — Montano comes from GameHouse, Playtech and Full Tilt Poker.
• Matthew Schroeder, Online Games Producer — Schroeder was formerly production and design consultant for Arcade Web.

High 5 Games

• Sophie Rule is now Technical Artist — Rule was a freelance digital media designer.

King.com

• Alexandru Negoita, Jr. Art Director — Negoita was formerly art director at EA Mobile.
• Johan Heurlin, Ad Operations Executive — Heurlin was at Worldwide Developer Relations at Apple.
• Laura Watton-Davies, Game Artist — Watton-Davies worked as a 2D graphics artist at Jagex Ltd.

Social Point

• Borja Juncosa, Sys Admin — Juncosa was Técnico de Sistemas at Emagister.com.
• Ricardo Carretero, Game Designer — Carretero was formerly lead designer, producer at Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team!
• Daniel Zapater, iOS Developer — Zapater was previously iOS developer Robot Media.
• José Ignacio Montes, Game Designer — Montes worked as game designer and Metacognition Seeker.
• Mike Allender, Game Balancer — Allender comes to Social Point from Jagex where he was a game balancer.
• Andrés Díaz, Sys Admin — Díaz was system administrator at open3s.
• Luca Bilotta, Flash Developer — Bilotta was formerly a consultant contractor.
• Marcos Quesada, Backend Developer — Quesada was previously Symfony 2 developer at Neventum.
• María Santos, Head of HR — Santos worked as international business development managerat Catenon Worldwide Executive Search.
• Marc Freixas, iOS Developer — Freixas comes to Social Point from Kotoc where he was a game developer.
• Roony López, Backend Developer — López was a Freelance Web Developer and Consultant.
• Josep Pedrós, Business Intelligence Project Manager — Pedrós was formerly senior business intelligence consultant for Clariba Consulting S.L.U.
• Gonzalo Serrano, Backend Developer — Serrano was previously Web developer at Trovit.
• Xavier Lamarca, iOS Developer — Lamarca also joined the the company in the latest round of hires.

Spil Games

• Anastasia Gritsenko, Head of User Experience — Before joining the Spil team Gritsenko worked with TomTom, Vodafone, and Philips to develop their online user experience.
• Harmen de Bruin, Product Manager (Social Games) — Prior to joining Spil de Bruin worked as Product Manager (Games) at Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment.
• Martijn van der Gun, Product & Development Manager (Mobile) — Before joining Spil van der Gun ran his own freelance business, working on several iOS and mobile-related projects.

wooga

• Thomas James Kinniburgh, Product Manager — Kinniburgh worked as a producer at Chillingo previously.
• Adam Lindberg, Engineer — Lindberg worked as a programmer at Netlight Consulting before joining wooga.
• Donald Hutchison, Engineer — Hutchison was a software developer at Huzutech.
• Adam Telfer, Product Manager — Telfer was previously VP game development at XMG.
• Alexander Averboukh, Engineer — Averboukh worked for Word Bandit as a flash engineer.
• Tom-Colin Horn, Junior Game Designer — Horn formerly worked at Bigpoint, also as a junior game designer.
• Dario Quondamstefano, Localization QA Analyst — Quondamstefano worked as a localization test lead at Enzyme Testin Lab.
• Armin Feistenauer, Data Engineer — Feistenauer worked at wooga before as an intern.

Zynga

• Margi Shah, Associate Software Development Engineer in Test — Shah was ABAP Developer at Torrent Pharmaceuticals.
• Jeremy Holmes, Product Manager — Holmes joined the team from Twisted games where he was Product Manager, Project Manager.
• Alexei Andreev, Senior Software Engineer — Andreev comes to Zynga from A Bit Lucky where her was senior software engineer.
• Anup G, Associate Product Manager — Anup G interned at Juniper Networks.
• Dalene Heydon, HR Clerk — Heydon was an office assistant at BioMedical Forensics.