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Education
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Languages
Interests
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Shanon Chong

Shanon Chong

Vermont,VIC

Summary

Creative content creator who's driven, schedule oriented, and goal facing . Excelling in community creation in small to medium groups through engaging emceeing and commentary. Demonstrates adaptability having worked with multiple Esports teams and managing them with styles appropriate to the players. Is a team player who can take on leadership roles and will take on feedback to ensure optimal workflow in a group.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Esports Caster

GIC Esports Cafe
04.2024 - 04.2025

- Commentated live in venue to improve viewer experience and increase excitement for an in-person and online crowd.

- Learned the names of players at the event and sourcing information about their positions and preferences in-game.

- Always asked for feedback from organisers to improve the product delivered to the viewers.

- Coordinated with a casting duo to create engaging and interesting commentary for game states, cooperating to create space for each other to speak.

- Commentated for over 6 hours in a day

Novelist

03.2019 - Current

- Maintained a strict regimen to complete my novels, sustaining an output of a thousand-words a day to improve discipline .

- Engaged in workshopping to accept feedback, and provide accurate alterations for other writers.

- Learned multiple genres and styles, allowing for writing in both formal and informal tones effectively.

- Analysed the most efficient sentences and words to convey a message to a reader.

- Self-published a novel at 16.

Esports Coach & Team Manager

Melbourne University Esports Club
08.2024 - Current

- Organised Practice hours and facilitated team building exercises to improve teamwork .

- Created strategical playbooks to enhance the team's strategical depth.

- Provided feedback to players for improvement.

- Frequently implemented feedback offered by players to improve team chemistry and further my own coaching.

YouTube Content Creator

01.2024 - 04.2024

- Developed hobby content and adapting scripts to the niche.

- Learned and optimised workflow in Adobe Premiere Pro to improve quality of the video.

- Observed video analytics to gauge audience retention statistics and gear future scripts to improve viewership .

- Learned to A-B test video titles and thumbnails to increase viewership post-publishing onto Youtube.

- Solicited Feedback from peers to improve video performance.

- Sustained audience engagement and replied to comments to create community .

- Used Adobe Photoshop to create thumbnails that increased click-through rate .

- Built a style and brand of video through emulating and learning from vastly more successful content creators.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Creative Writing

RMIT University
Melbourne, VIC
07-2025

Skills

  • Crowd work
  • Engaging Commentary
  • Improvisation
  • Teamwork and Coordination
  • Creativity and Idea Generation
  • Self Analysis and Stats Interpretation
  • Content Planning
  • Team Scheduling and Organisation
  • Community Management and Engagement
  • Rapport Building
  • Concise and Effective Communication

Accomplishments

- Self-published a Novel at 16

- Led an Esports team to a top 8 finish in an amateur tournament

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Japanese
Elementary

Interests

- Writing

- Art (Mainly Digital)

- Esports and Video games

- Learning Japanese

- Content Creation

Timeline

Esports Coach & Team Manager

Melbourne University Esports Club
08.2024 - Current

Esports Caster

GIC Esports Cafe
04.2024 - 04.2025

YouTube Content Creator

01.2024 - 04.2024

Novelist

03.2019 - Current

Bachelor of Arts - Creative Writing

RMIT University
Shanon Chong