Nick Bodenham

Nick Bodenham, Test Lead (Microsoft Corporation), has been working as a professional in the games industry for over a decade. He began his career at Vivendi Universal Games, where he worked on hit games such as Half-Life, Half-Life: Opposing Force, StarCraft and Tribes. Following a two year stint working for LEGO Software on their LEGO Racers and LEGO Harry Potter game franchises, he joined Microsoft in 2001. While at Microsoft he has been involved in the certification of games spanning a variety of genres for the Xbox and Xbox 360; he has also helped launch games on the Xbox LIVE service. He currently works in the XNA Game Quality Functional Test department, continuing to certify games for the Xbox 360.