Jim Woods

Jim Woods
Employment history: Sega Europe
Role(s): Director
Education: Colchester Royal Grammar School (graduated in 1979)

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Jim Woods is a former Director of Development Services at Sega West.

He entered the games industry in 1989 with PC Wise, a company specialised in bulk disc duplication for magazine cover-mounts and joined Leeds based Vektor Grafix in the same year where he worked until 1990 as an Accountant. He joined Cross Products in 1991, as a Managing Director supplying the first real-time editing tools to the worldwide game development community, the SNASM (the Spiny Norman's Assembler or SN Assembler, jointly developed by Martin Day a.k.a Spiny Norman of SN Systems and Ian Oliver and Andy Craven founders of Cross Products) until 1995, leaving the company in the same year, shortly after the business was sold to Sega.

After spending a short time in the multi-media sector, Jim joined DMA Design in 1997, where he stayed for four years as development director. He again joined Sega in 2006 as Head of External Development at SEGA Europe. Having held roles as project director and interim studio director at The Creative Assembly in Brisbane, (Sega Studios Australia) he returned to the SEGA Europe offices in 2011 as Director of Development Services at Sega West until May 2017. He is currently a Senior Development Director at Sheffield-based company Sumo Digital.

Production history

• Sega Mega Drive Collection (PlayStation Portable; 2006) — Head of External Development
• Sonic Rivals (PlayStation Portable; 2006) — Head of External Development
• Sonic and the Secret Rings (Wii; 2007) — Head of External Development
• Medieval II: Total War (Windows PC; 2006) — Head of External Studios
• Crush (PlayStation Portable; 2007) — Head of External Development
• Alien Syndrome (PlayStation Portable; 2007) — Head of External Development
• Sega Rally Revo (PlayStation Portable; 2007) — Head of External Development
• Viking: Battle for Asgard (Xbox 360; 2008) — Head of External Development
• Iron Man (Xbox 360; 2008) — Head of External Development
• The Incredible Hulk (Nintendo DS; 2008) — Head of External Development
• Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm (Xbox 360; 2008) — Head of External Development
• Super Monkey Ball (iOS; 2008) — Head of External Development
• Space Siege (Windows PC; 2008) — Head of External Development
• Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars (PlayStation Portable; 2007) — Head of External Development
• Sega Presents Touch Darts (Nintendo DS; 2007) — Head of External Development
• Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (Nintendo DS; 2008) — Head of External Development
• The House of the Dead: Overkill (Wii; 2009) — Head of External Development
• Football Manager 2008 (Windows PC; ?) — SEGA Europe Limited
• Jambo! Safari: Animal Rescue (Nintendo DS; 2009) — Head of External Development
• Aliens vs. Predator (Xbox 360; 2010) — Head of External Development
• Aliens vs. Predator (Windows PC; 2010) — Head of External Development
• Sonic Classic Collection (Nintendo DS; 2010) — Head of External Development
• Iron Man 2 (Xbox 360; 2010) — Head of External Development
• Yakuza: Dead Souls (PlayStation 3; 2011) — Director of Development Services SEGA West
• Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure (Nintendo 3DS; 2012) — Director, Development Services SEGA West
• Super Monkey Ball 2: Sakura Edition (Android; 2012) — Head of External Development
• The House of the Dead 4 (PlayStation 3; 2012) — Development Services Director, Sega West
• Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II (Xbox 360; 2012) — Director of Development Services, Sega West
• Sega Vintage Collection: Monster World (Xbox 360; 2012) — Director of Development Services, West
• Sega Vintage Collection: Streets of Rage (Xbox 360; 2012) — Director of Development Services, West
• Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz (PlayStation Vita; 2012) — Director of Development Services West
• Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit (Steam; 2012) — Director of Development Services West
• Yakuza 5 (PlayStation 3; 2012) — Director, Development Services Sega West
• Jet Set Radio (iOS; 2012) — Director of Development Services West
• The Cave (Steam; 2013) — Director, Development Services SEGA West
• Aliens: Colonial Marines (Windows PC; 2013) — Director, Development Services Sega West
• Jet Set Radio (Xbox 360; 2012) — Director of Development Services West
• Jet Set Radio (PlayStation 3; 2012) — Director of Development Services West
• Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (Windows PC; 2013) — Director, Development Services Sega West
• 3D Sonic the Hedgehog (Nintendo 3DS; 2013) — Director, Development Services Sega West
• Sonic the Hedgehog (iOS; 2013) — Director of Development Services West
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Android; 2013) — Director of Development Services West
• Sonic Lost World (Wii U; 2013) — Director, Development Services Sega West
• The Typing of the Dead: Overkill (Steam; 2013) — Director - Development Services and Production
• The Typing of the Dead: Overkill (Steam; 2013) — Director, Development Services SEGA West
• Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games (Wii U; 2013) — Director, Development Services Sega West
• Alien: Isolation (Steam; 2014) — Director, Development Services SEGA West
• Football Manager 2015 (Windows PC; 2014) — SEGA Development Services
• Yakuza 0 (PlayStation 3; 2015) — Director of Development Services Sega West
• Football Manager 2017 (Windows PC; 2016) — SEGA Development Services
• Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Nintendo 3DS; 2016) — Director, Development Services Sega West
• Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Wii U; 2016) — Director, Development Services Sega West
• Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice (Nintendo 3DS; 2016) — Director, Development Services Sega West
• Football Manager 2016 (Windows PC; 2015) — SEGA Development Services
• Football Manager 2010 (Windows PC; ?) — SEGA Europe

Photographs

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