Mood Yassin

About

Game-audio-focused sound designer/audio engineer with 5 years as a senior podcast sound engineer and ~10 years in sound design/music production, now applying that expertise to UE5 and Wwise. Built interactive UE5 audio systems (announcements, surface-based footsteps, ambience/weather triggers) using MetaSounds, attenuation, and submix mixing, and has hands-on experience profiling/optimizing CPU and memory by deduplicating assets and managing voice usage. Also brings immersive sports audio production experience, including Dolby Atmos and 7.1 stadium-style mixes.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Built an interactive UE5 announcement system with area-dependent triggers and attenuation
• Integrated foley and VO assets into gameplay using enums, trigger volumes, and conditional interaction logic
• Debugged complex trigger/attenuation interactions and validated behavior via multi-platform testing (including iOS)
• End-to-end game-audio pipeline ownership: sound design, VO processing, MetaSounds implementation, attenuation, ambience triggers, and submix-based mixing
• Strong dialogue/SFX restoration skills using spectral tools for difficult recordings
• Performance-minded audio implementation: removed unused/duplicate assets and used CPU/memory stats to balance voice usage
• Experience producing immersive sports audio mixes including crowd/impact/stadium ambience in Dolby Atmos and 7.1

Reference Highlights

• Meticulous, high-quality output
• Strong DAW fluency
• Capable composer and audio editor
• Responsible and reliable
• Nimble and quick to learn new tools
• Creative with new tools and workflows
• Collaborative and proactively helpful
• Strong dialogue mix results (ducking, music, mix)
• Able to salvage inconsistent source recordings into a polished final product
• Works diligently even on tedious/pedantic tasks without complaining
• Trusted with a large portion of an interdisciplinary project
• Delivered an MVP/MPV in weeks
• Excellent musician (internationally acclaimed metal keyboardist)