Bill Sabram Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Team with game and toy companies (Hasbro, Mattel, Spin Master Toys) and serious game clients (Autodesk, Boston PIC, Playskool) to create 35+ games that focus on fun, learning and transformation. Specialize in concept development, storyboarding, vision creation, team-based product development, spec writing, UX/UI, user research, user interviews, rules, rapid prototype development, playtesting, game balance, and presentation creation and delivery. Proven expert at managing client expectation, teaching about the power of games when they are blended with your industry, and creating transformative user experiences that launch new opportunities and industries. Specialize in writing comprehensive design documents (including game specification, user flow charts, interface design, just-in-time learning, and fun!)

Remote From Boston With Core Team In San Francisco

Bill Sabram worked as a contract game designer with Autodesk in 2016 before joining as a full-time remote Autodesk Education Experiences (AEX) employee out of Boston in 2017-18. As a Principal Learning Designer, Bill applied game design and social behavior change theory to the creation of command usage prototypes, learning design research initiatives, and engagement experiments for employees and students. See the links to 3 "Learning Fiction" storyboards and my final Fusion Command Map PowerPoint below.• Innovator: Created concepts, storyboards, and learning prototypes for Autodesk University (AU) research initiatives. The Universal Skill Tree at AU 2016 validated the design and brought Bill on board as a full-time employee. Our second AU research prototype, The Fusion Command Map, was spun out into a cross-divisional, product development team, after it was featured in the CEO’s Opening Keynote. We called it Generative Learning, the beginning of a genuine peer-to-peer learning network.• Motivator: Built fun activities to engage participants and discover insights that identified compelling opportunities for Fusion 360 CAD courses, Employee Engagement programs, and new commercial products. • Collaborator: Worked on a global Employee Engagement Team to improve the company culture in AEX. Bill focused on a playful peer recognition award system and team-building games. • Investigator: Conducted secondary research on gamification, CAD skills, CAD job opportunities, and the email strategies of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). • Fabricator: Developed concepts, storyboards, strategies, and learning experiments to increase student engagement in the many Fusion 360 courses offered by Autodesk across multiple MOOC platforms (Udemy, Coursera, and Design Academy.)• Communicator: Presented at XSummit 2017, led Deep Dive Design sessions via Zoom video software across multiple time zones, and conducted research with participants at AU 2017.

Greater Boston Area

• Envisioned, built, and led a discovery group and hacked our way to new well-being app opportunities. We built four rapid www.pixate.com prototypes over the course of three months. Check out each of these interactive final reports in the links below:#001 TimeWalk - to avoid sitting all day#002 Vigorous - get more heart-thumping activity#003 Veg-o-Mat - avoid diabetes and eat more non-starchy veggies#004 PrescribableApps - give and get better healthy app suggestions • Collaborated with each team at MeYou Health to imagine, research, build, playtest, support and market a suite of clinically validated web and mobile apps that improve health and well-being. MYH’s flagship product encouraged daily small actions (Daily Challenge), while additional apps helped users walk more (Walkadoo), eat better (Hello 200), quit smoking (QuitNet) and mitigate their health risks (Well-being Tracker).

http://maya.comApplied game design principles to the system logic of Eaton’s Home Heartbeat Home Monitoring System, a decade before the explosion of home­-monitoring apps. Also conducted user research as we discovered what areas of the home users wished to monitor. Sought Boston clients and supported Pittsburgh projects.

Created exciting games that embraced profitability, wonder and fun. Ensured products met schedule, reliability, marketing and safety requirements. Championed products through the team development process. Contributed $60 Million in 1999 sales.Designed 8 Pokémon products in record shattering time. Invented the Pokémon Spinning Coin Game that sold over 500,000 units in one month.Researched, invented, and presented the Buffy the Vampire Slayer board game that amazed Fox show creators, hardcore gamers and Buffy fans!Supported users and maintained design Macintoshes while growing a department computer network that resulted in each designer receiving their own desktop computer system.Supervised and mentored design interns.

Pioneered 3D visualization of trade show exhibits with Silicon Graphics computers. Trained design department to use Vertigo software as a tool for in-house design and client presentation. Collaborated with cost estimators and salespeople to win proposals. Created 3D computer models and animations of trade show exhibits.