Monte Krol is a Blizzard Entertainment employee that has worked as a tool programmer^[1] and voice actor since Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos^[2] throughout World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King,^{[3]WoWMan 200TBCMan 20} where he now works as the lead tools programmer.^{WotLKMan 20}

BiographyEdit

Early lifeEdit

He was born on Chicago. He is a lifelong video game player, he started playing on Atari and learned to program pretty early on. He got a degree in computer engineering and went to work writting software but his life's pation was the video games, then he worked in a company called Game Refuge but later on he looked up for a job in Blizzard because he liked very much the games of Starcraft and Diablo.^[1]

Blizzard employeeEdit

He worked in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, after that in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, then on Starcraft II and now he works on World of Warcraft and it's expansions.^[1]

Lead Tools ProgrammerEdit

He and his staff members build the programs that the rest of the team uses to build WoW, there are couple different kinds of programs but the one that has the most people dedicated full time to it is WoW Edit. He and his staff also try to make things easier to the designers, so that they can be more efficient. Their principal downside, like in all software developments, are the bugs.^[1]

NotesEdit

• He does some goblin voices; in World of Warcraft he voiced the goblin that sounds really nuts.^[1]
• His most most challenging task at work is taking over the tools team and being in charge of WoW Edit.^[1]

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