Frank O'Connor

Frank O'Connor, or Frankie, was the content manager for Bungie. He was the primary writer of the Bungie Weekly Update through the production of Halo 2 an Halo 3, as well as the creator of Mister Chief. He announced his departure from Bungie on May 16, 2008 in order to work more closely with Microsoft Studios on Halo related content.

Background
He is originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, where he was born and raised. Growing up Frankie was obsessed with games playing: Pong, 2600, Intellivision, Vectrex, ColecoVision, Sinclair Spectrum, Atari 800, Commodore 64...and so on, 'til Xbox 360 in the present day. He didn't have them all at the same time upgrading when the next generation of systems was released.

He was able to parlay his love of video games into a career working at a number of video game magazines including Ultimate Future Magazine, TOTAL! Nintendo magazine and the Official Xbox Magazine. He then made the jump to Bungie Studios as content manager. Asked about his typical day at the office Frankie told HIH:


 * I'm content manager, which really means, spare monkey. That means I do everything from writing the manual, helping marketing with materials, running the website and going on trips to incredible places - to shoveling pimp turds out of Marty's recording booth. Seriously. Pimps are way worse than cart horses.

In the May 16 Weekly Update, Frankie announced that he is departing Bungie. He says "I am off to work more closely with Microsoft on the Halo franchise".

Frankie Facts
Childhood Idol?
 * Frankie: Billy Idol, naturally. He's not just my idol, he's the world's idol. Rock!

Do you have any pets?
 * Frankie: An enormous cat. Seriously, 22 pounds of rippling feline blubber. In fact, rippling is his only form of exercise.

Anything else you'd like to tell us about yourself?
 * Frankie: I am foreign. Like Balky. Or maybe more like Groundskeeper Willie. Also, I have an enormous tattoo of the Scottish flag on my right shoulder, underneath which is inscribed, "Scotland Forever." On account of how stupefyingly awesome Scotland is. Eventually, when the Scottish Empire has finally secured world peace and total domination of the globe, you will appreciate it.

Trivia

 * His favorite character on LOST is Hurley.
 * His favorite website is Real Ultimate Power
 * Once created a World of Warcraft character named "Man Chowder" which was banned by a WoW moderator before he got past level one.
 * Frankie is usually the only player on Bungie's team wearing full Recon Armor in their Humpday games.
 * He appeared in a special episode of This Spartan Life.
 * At TOTAL! magazine he was known as 'Fat' Frank O'Connor.
 * His weapon of choice is the Covenant Carbine.
 * He was the arch enemy of Martin O'Donnell.
 * When Bungie was asked "since Frankie left does he still have his Flaming Helmet?" it was replied with "The flame has been extinguished"
 * Frank is constantly used in parodies by the Bungie.net audience for photo shop contests.

Related Links

 * A gallery of Mister Chief images