Adam Saslow Email & Phone Number

I manage a team of scrappy, supremely talented Engineers across all of BEGiN's Digital Product portfolio, including codeSpark Academy, Learn with Sesame Street, HOMER Learning, and Little Passports.In my role, I'm accountable and responsible for leveling up our Engineers in matters of both practice and craft. I lead the technical efforts in maintaining and developing features for our products, while planning and executing ports of our natively-coded products to Unity. I represent the Digital Products team on the technical side of the company's roadmap, ensuring alignment between my team's efforts and company OKRs. We strive to write excellent, maintainable, and testable code, executed professionally within achievable timelines.

I manage new business development and the day-to-day affairs of the company, while operating as Lead Engineer on our contract work and internal R&D projects/prototypes.In the past few years, I've overseen brand activation/engagement contracts for Miller Lite and Malibu Rum, along with a Game Development contract with Funktronic Labs, where we collaborated on "Fujii", an upcoming VR title for the Oculus Quest, Rift, and Vive.

I wrote source code and advised clients on the technical and market feasibility of their apps, games, location-based experiences, and high-level ideas across a myriad of platforms, including video games, AR/VR/MR implementations, and experiential design.Selected Works:- Lead Engineer, Intel CES Keynote Address: Developed a live, real-time interactive AR experience which Intel's then-CEO Bryan Krzanich used during his Keynote Address at CES 2014.- Lead Engineer, The Levithan Project: An experiential narrative project which was showcased at Sundance 2016. This exhibition was one of the first reveals of the Oculus Rift CV1 to the general public.Saslow Studios, LLC was merged into RareFaction Interactive in September 2016.

NT7 Studios is an independent developer of interactive entertainment products for mobile platforms. My last title with NT7 was "Towers of Babble", a 3D word game for iOS.- Responsible for budgeting, forecasting, and risk analysis for all NT7 internal projects and contract work. - Managed project schedules and served as liaison between NT7 and external partners.- Staying true to my roots, I performed Engineering tasks for our games as my workload allowed.

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Credits:Call of Duty: Black OpsCall of Duty: World at WarJames Bond: Quantum of SolaceSpider-Man: Web of Shadows-Call of Duty: Black Ops - Managed day-to-day operations of multiple R&D / Incubator teams. Turned creative directors' high-level ideas into high-octane "WOW!" moments in the final product. Tracked and managed multiple level schedules for internal and external development teams, from pen-and-paper design to boxed product.-Call of Duty: World at War - Liaison between Treyarch and external map developers for Multiplayer and Zombie downloadable content.-Associate Producer for Tools and Libraries team which supported all departments' tools needs for Infinity Ward's COD4 engine during development of Call of Duty: World at War and James Bond: Quantum of Solace.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Directed a team of Software Engineers from Motorola’s Global Software Group in St. Petersburg, Russia, in the development of a general-purpose test-automation solution primarily used for Motorola's Digital Cable Set Top portfolio. Solution saved Motorola man-years of work on a recurring basis for no less than 7 years after my departure to the video game industry.- Facilitated effective team communication and acted as liaison between U.S. and Russian teams.- Overcame location, language, and cultural roadblocks to consistently ensure on-time delivery of tested, polished software.

Software Engineer working on ASP.NET web applications, ranging from in-house time tracking to enterprise level software suites for the pharmaceutical sector.

Software Engineer on a team which developed a programmer-friendly ActiveX Interface to QuickBooks Pro 2002 and above.

Bs, Computer Science

Regents Diploma