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Valerii Hryhoriev
Sound Designer & Composer
📍 Ukraine (relocation-ready / remote) | ✉️ [открыть контакты](см. выше в блоке «контактная информация») | 🌐 [portfolio link]

🌟 Profile
Creative and detail-oriented sound designer with 3 years of professional experience in game audio. Contributed to 16+ shipped HOPA games, including world-renowned franchises such as Mystery Case Files and Whispered Secrets. Skilled in full-cycle audio production including SFX, ambiences, UI, VO processing, and music (selected projects). Proficient in FL Studio; currently developing expertise in Unity + Wwise integration. Background in teaching and freelance music/audio production, with 8+ years of experience in sound design and composition. Seeking to join a passionate game team where sound truly matters.

💼 Experience
GrandMa Studios – Remote
Sound Designer / Composer
2022 – Present
Key Projects:
• Mystery Case Files (Parts 25–29)
– Full sound design (except music & cutscenes)
– UI, ambient environments, interactive SFX, main menu
– VO generation & processing (ElevenLabs)
• Whispered Secrets (Parts 14–18)
– WS 14: sound effects & ambiences
– WS 15–18: full audio production including music
• The Unseen Fears (Parts 6–7)
– Full-cycle sound design (excluding music and cutscenes)
• City of Stories (Parts 1–3)
– Full-cycle sound design (excluding music and cutscenes)
• Fragments of Truth: An MCF Story
– Full-cycle sound design (excluding music and cutscenes)
Freelance Sound Designer & Composer – Remote / Kharkiv
2017 – 2025
– Worked with major audio stock platforms: Audiojungle, Pond5, Soundclick, Beatstars
– Created audio content for interactive children's sound books
– Produced music in a variety of genres: Upbeat, Cinematic, Ambient, Pop, House, DnB, Trap
Sound Engineer – NURE TV Studio – Kharkiv, Ukraine
2014 – 2019
– Full-cycle production of radio programs and podcasts
– Recording, editing, mixing, and post-processing of podcast audio content
– Worked with voice-over artists and actors
– Created jingles and intros for various media projects
Teaching Assistant – NURE – Kharkiv, Ukraine
2017 – 2019
– Conducted practical and laboratory classes in sound physics and related disciplines

🛠 Skills
• Software: FL Studio(main), Cubase, Reaper, Wwise
• Sound Design: SFX, UI, ambiences, menus, VO prep, jingles, logos, etc
• Music: Composition, mixing/mastering, guitar, electric guitar, double bass, bass guitar
• Other: Audio post for radio/podcasts, reference-based production, client-oriented workflow

📚 Education & Training
Audiokinetic Wwise 101 Certification
Self-paced training for Wwise fundamentals and game audio logic
Game Audio with Unity and Wwise — online course by Michael G. Wagner
Self-paced training in game-audio implementation, Unity-Wwise integration, interactive sound design and event-driven audio logic.
Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics (HNURE)
MSc in Radiotechnics, 2014 – 2019
Kerch College of Shipbuilding Technology (KSMTU)
Junior Specialist in Radiotechnics, 2010 – 2014
Music School #2, Kerch
Completed 5-year program in music education, 2006

🌐 Languages
• English – Intermediate (reading/writing good, speaking developing)
• Ukrainian / Russian – Native