Paragon Studios

Overview

Paragon Studios is NCsoft's North California studio, also referred to as NorCal Studios, Mountain View, and NCNC/NC².

Paragon Studios formed from NCsoft purchasing Cryptic Studios' half of the "City Of" franchise's Intellectual Property (I.P.). The purchase was announced on November 6, 2007. Most of the Cryptic developers for the game moved over to the new studio (15 miles from Cryptic Studios). They completed moving to the new studio on December 18, 2007.

Previously most often called NorCal Studios, they adopted the Paragon Studios name on April 14, 2009.

Staff

Paragon Studios – April 10, 2009 [1]

Management Team

Brian Clayton (General Manager/Executive Producer), Matt Miller (Lead Designer)

Design Department

Melissa Bianco (Writer/Zones), Jonathan Courney (Powers), Sean Michael Fish (Writer/Consultant), Floyd Grubb (Powers Lead), Bruce Harlick (Story/Mission Writer), John Hegner (World), Matt Miller (Lead Designer), Joe Morrissey (Writer/Bible), Ray Snyder (Design Support), Phil Zeleski (Powers/Designer).

Programming Department

C.W. Bennett, Aaron Brady (Lead Software Engineer), Mike Chock (Graphics), Vince D'Amelio, Garth Gillespie, Scott Nelson, Matt Stults, Graham West, Ghost Widow, Dave G

Art Department

Cheryl Austin (Character Artist), Keetsie Berbel (FX Artist), Christopher Bruce (Animation/FX), Jay Doherty (Character/Costume), Ron Friedman (Animation), Ken Morse (Lead Artist), David Nakayama (Concept Artist), Jason Olmstead (UI), Don Pham (Environmental/3D Artist), Ryan Roth (Environmental Artist), Carolina Tello Alvarado (Concept Artist), Nate Van Dyke (Concept Artist)

Production Department

Ross Borden (Dir. Business & Marketing), Rachel Bristol, Jesse "J-Dog" Caceres, Richard Higbee (AP/Build Engineer), Arbiter Kim (Bugs), Avatea (Senior Community Specialist), EMpulse (Moderator/Community Lead), Niviene (Moderator11) (Moderator/Community Dev), TheOcho (Moderator 08) (Moderator), Jimmy "the IT guy" (IT guy), Teressa (HR/Office Mom)

Quality Assurance (QA)

Please note that the QA department is from NCsoft, though they may or may not assist Paragon Studios directly.
Red Skeleton (CoH QA Lead)

Sound and Music Department

Please note that this department actually operates out of NCAustin and is not part of NorCal. Sound and Music is usually outsourced to other parts of NCsoft and is only included here for convenience sake.
Michael Henry, Joe Lyford

Former Staff

Koschej (Moderator419) (Former Moderator/Community Dev), Alex Von Minden (Former Community Mgr.), Jill Henderson (Former Community Coord.)

See Also

• Cryptic Studios
• NCsoft Europe

Links

• Paragon Studios Home Page
• NCsoft Announces New Studio Press Release on ncsoft.net
• Google Docs - devs by Zombie_Man

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