Brian Alspach Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Building the world's largest distributed youth game studio.

Greater New York City Area

Currently developing Endless Studios, a virtual internship program in game making.

Greater New York City Area

* Oversaw product strategy for E-Line's consumer video game product line.* Lead product management efforts for Never Alone (www.neveralonegame.com). Developed inclusively with the Iñupiaq people of Alaska, the game launched to critical and popular acclaim in November 2014. It is now available on PC, Mac, major gaming consoles and mobile; has landed on over 70 critical 'Best of'​ lists and received numerous awards, including the BAFTA for 'Best Debut Game'​ and the 2015 Games For Change Awards for 'Most Significant Impact'​ and 'Game of the Year'. It has received almost 4 million downloads worldwide.* Responsible for market analysis, product strategy, business model development, metrics and marketing/distribution strategy for a slate of impact-oriented consumer video games across web, mobile and console platforms.

Greater New York City Area

* Oversaw product strategy, creative development/design, learning services, metrics, business analysis and sales/marketing for Gamestar Mechanic (www.gamestarmechanic.com), an online game and community designed to teach kids how to make their own videogames.* Developed and executed a grassroots educational and consumer channel sales and marketing strategy from product launch that has resulted in the product being used in over 20,000 schools and educational programs by 1.9 million youth whose games that have been played 30 million times. * Successfully launched Gamestar Mechanic Jr. (pbskids.org/gamestarmechanicjr), aimed at younger audiences, securing a partnership with PBS Kids as part of their first virtual world, Kart Kingdom, in April 2015. * Launched the National STEM Video Game Challenge (www.stemchallenge.org) – a youth game design competition originally announced at the White House by President Obama – in partnership with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. Over 20,000 middle and high school youth participated in the competition across 7 annual cycles.* Lead publishing efforts for E-Line Media's collaboration with MinecraftEdu (www.minecraftedu.com), an officially authorized educational edition of Minecraft developed by TeacherGaming in use in over 10,000 schools worldwide.

* Lead analysis, design and development efforts for all aspects of a major software redesign for a large, international business process outsourcing firm. These efforts enabled the client’s first economical on-shore data capture model for healthcare claims.* Provided expert consulting services in the areas of executive reporting and analytics; business process design, automation, and improvement; project management and software design and development.

* Oversaw all day-to-day operations for a 400-person business unit of a national healthcare and insurance services firm, comprising 5 locations throughout the country.* Presided over the business unit’s transition from a negative earnings picture to its first year of positive earnings results. During my tenure, the division also experienced consistent double-digit topline revenue growth and signed long term contract extensions with the two largest customers serviced by the entire $1 billion + parent company.

* Coordinated all reporting and analytics activities for several operational divisions of a large, national healthcare services firm, preparing operational reports and developing & presenting analyses of business trends to internal executive and client staff.* Designed and maintained data warehousing environment for customer reporting containing detailed data on over 60,000 medical bills per year.* Served on management team that achieved a successful exit of $40mm+ healthcare startup National Healthcare Resources via an acquisition by Concentra, our largest competitor.

Supervised rollout of the company’s new proprietary medical management software suite across 5+ operational locations.