User:IonescuAlex

International Game Developers Association

Alex Ionescu is an award-winning advertising game developer in the Detroit area. He has 11 years of experience in e-commerce, direct marketing and online promotions.

Alex is a Flash Developer at ePrize [[1]] in Pleasant Ridge, MI since 2006. He is also Adjunct Faculty at International Academy of Design & Technology - Detroit [[2]] in Troy, MI since 2007, where he teaches 2D and 3D game development courses using Flash, Papervision3D, and the Torque and Unreal game engines.

His recent work on branded casual games at ePrize has been recognized with:

• - the 2007 "D" Show Award for Best Branded Game by the AdCraft Club of Detroit, and the 2007 Summit EMA Innovator Award - for Jack Link's Beef Jerky 'Swing Big Stick' Sasquatch baseball game,
• - and a 2008 Interactive Marketing Award by PROMO magazine - for Chevrolet/Rodale 'Take Three to Tahoe' truck loading puzzle game.

Alex Ionescu is active in SEMAFX [[3]] (ACM SIGGRAPH SE Michigan chaper - board member, VP), IGDA Detroit, Agile Michigan, Michigan Production Alliance and Adobe and Autodesk local user groups.

Alex is available to discuss moving your current game production tasks to Michigan [[4]], to help your company benefit from Michigan's best-in-the-nation up to 42% tax rebates offered for Film and Digital Media projects. There are world-class art, programming and cinematic sequence resources available in core communities in Michigan, to qualify your project for the current maximum rebate of 42% of Michigan production expenses.