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Shoemake with a Mario statue.
Randy Shoemake is an executive at Nintendo of America. Having joined NOA in 1993, he currently serves as the department head of language services, and manager of the NOA Product Testing Department. Shoemake contributed to testing of two Metroid games in 2004; Metroid: Zero Mission and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. For the latter, he was a testing manager and supervisor.