Tim Bourne

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Executive Director @ Pocketed Pixels
Christchurch, NZ
Tim Bourne's Location
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About Tim Bourne

For over 15 years, I've had the privilege of immersing myself in the captivating worlds of video games and themed interactive entertainment. During this journey, I've been fortunate to contribute significantly to award winning projects alongside industry leaders Disney, Pixar, Universal, and Jam City. My primary focus has always been ensuring projects are not only delivered to their financial constraints, but also stay true to their creative vision. A task that has enriched my experience of leading creative teams to develop successful products and businesses.My strengths go beyond technical expertise; I pride myself on strong interpersonal skills and effective written communication. These qualities enable me to excel in executive leadership roles, where I've been able to drive business performance, nurture company growth, foster employee satisfaction and a positive culture, and ensure smooth operational and financial management. Alongside this, I've been privileged to engage in crafting company strategies, setting forth a clear vision, and maintaining open communication with shareholders.With a decade's worth of specialization in the video game industry, I bring a diverse range of skills to the table: providing development oversight on working with game engines and asset pipelines, integrating third-party libraries, implementing automated testing, forming strategic platform partnerships, navigating franchise approvals, and championing agile project management. This background equips me to seamlessly integrate into projects or organizations at any stage of development, ready to contribute and drive immediate value.

Tim Bourne's Current Company Details
Pocketed Pixels

Pocketed Pixels

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Executive Director
Christchurch, NZ
Website:
pocketedpixels.com
Employees:
2
Tim Bourne Work Experience Details
  • Pocketed Pixels
    Executive Director
    Pocketed Pixels
    Christchurch, Nz
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  • New Zealand Mint
    Strategic Advisor
    New Zealand Mint May 2024 - Present
    Auckland, New Zealand
    As a Strategic Advisor to New Zealand Mint, I drive growth and innovation through strategic and operational support. My role includes:- Collaborating with the executive team to identify new business ventures and partnerships, ensuring alignment with short and long term business goals.- Supporting the product design team in ideation of new product concepts, leveraging brands and licenses for compelling storytelling.- Enhancing business operations with deployment of improved systems and infrastructure.- Providing experienced guidance on key decisions and long-term planning.I am excited about our future, fostering innovation, and ensuring our precious metal collectibles initiatives align with our overarching goals, driving New Zealand Mint forward in the market.
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  • New Zealand Mint
    Acting Chief Product Officer
    New Zealand Mint Nov 2023 - Apr 2024
    Auckland, New Zealand
    In my role as a fractional Acting Chief Product Officer at New Zealand Mint, I've led strategic initiatives for our Licensed and Unlicensed collectible products. The core focus of my role has been:- Enhancing and expanding our licensing relationships, seeking new opportunities to grow our portfolio in alignment with our strategic vision, and creating a robust internal roadmap and forecasting tool that aids in detailed planning and budgeting for a multi-year product strategy.- Preparing handover for the new CPO to ensure a seamless transition, while fostering a creative and collaborative team environment that they will become a part of.- Actively participating in the executive team to shape the company’s future direction, ensuring departmental collaboration, and securing buy-in for our strategic plans.- Offering support to the CEO as a sounding board for strategic and operational discussions, providing experience based insights to help refine the company’s direction.As the business welcomes the new CPO, who will take over core product responsibilities, I will transition to an advisory role, providing ongoing commercial and strategic support to ensure its future success.
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  • Pocketed Pixels
    Executive Director
    Pocketed Pixels Jul 2023 - Present
    New Zealand
    Pocketed Pixels provides fractional executive, strategic consultancy, and advisory services, specializing in collaborations with major Brand and IP studios. Integrating seamlessly into existing teams, bringing a wealth of executive-level experience to the table. We are passionate about all the work we do and bring a people-centric working style, focusing on supporting everyone's individual strengths and passions within all teams. With a keen eye on digital products, physical goods, and immersive experiences, we collaborate closely with studios to navigate the complexities of the creative and technical process, ensuring innovative and successful outcomes in the ever-evolving digital landscape.We are in the early blue sky stages of our own project, stay tuned for future updates.
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  • Cerebralfix Limited
    Chief Executive Officer
    Cerebralfix Limited Nov 2020 - Jul 2023
    Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
    As President of CerebralFix I act as the face of the company, leading the development and execution of the company’s strategy and oversee the implementation of our vision and values. I am chiefly responsible for communicating on behalf of the company, with shareholders, government entities, and our clients. The critical responsibility of my role is to maintain awareness of the market, identify expansion opportunities and industry developments and to execute against these making sure we are financially and operationally secure. This includes setting up and managing operating budgets for the business in line with its requirements to deliver to client and project needs, as well as ensuring payments and spending against budgets align in our cashflow and financial projections.
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  • Cerebralfix Limited
    Vp Of Professional Services
    Cerebralfix Limited Apr 2018 - Nov 2020
    Christchurch, New Zealand
    As a Senior Executive, I reported directly to the CEO and Board to work on performance against key business metrics, growth of the company, operational and financial management, as well as maximizing the use of company assets while minimizing waste. Principally responsible for sales generation, client management and the satisfactory delivery of projects to customers, engaging in high-profile interactions with executive level employees.This role included ensuring the smooth, effective operation of multiple concurrent projects targeting a diverse client base. Being clear and sharing the know how on assessing customer needs, articulating these internally, and serving as a representative of the company to external individuals. Additionally, I delivered company strategy and vision, prioritized projects that would benefit the vision, and reported to shareholders regularly on impact of key business goals.
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  • Cerebralfix Limited
    Head Of Studio
    Cerebralfix Limited Oct 2013 - Apr 2018
    Christchurch, New Zealand
    As Head of Studio, my role has significant impact on both the operation and strategic vision of the company, acting as a senior vision holder for major internal development projects, managing quality control, design, development, release and ongoing operations. As well as leading the businesses sales and customer relations team to ensure current and new partnerships are managed. This role involved the delivery of a number of exciting high profile client products as well as helping steer the company forward as a member of the Executive Team.During this role I relocated to a small remote town in Westport, New Zealand, where I led the creation of a new technology centre owned by CerebralFix (EPIC Westport). This involved integrating with the community, collaborating with local council and businesses to gather support for the centre, as well as provide guidance and meet target objectives. This period also required remote working and management of development teams in the Christchurch based offices, as well as significant travel to North America to foster client relationships and project delivery.
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  • Cerebralfix Limited
    Key Client Account Manager
    Cerebralfix Limited Oct 2011 - Oct 2013
    Christchurch, New Zealand
    After delivering infrastructural improvements, my role migrated through the business into a client facing position. Acting as the primary Account Manager, responsibilities included building and maintaining client relationships, ensuring projects were on track, and delivered within budget. At the time, CerebralFix's clients included Disney Interactive, Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, GSN and The History Channel. Over the duration of this role I established relationships with all primary contacts and partners for the CerebralFix client base.
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  • Cerebralfix Limited
    Core Infrastructure Developer
    Cerebralfix Limited Jan 2011 - Oct 2011
    Christchurch, New Zealand
    I joined the CerebralFix team shortly before the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake. Due to the significant operational and infrastructural impacts of the Earthquake the role evolved quickly into business recovery and rebuild. The Christchurch central business district lost 90% of its buildings including the CF development offices. Knowing that the company was likely to be displaced for years to come any new solutions were required to be versatile and secure.
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  • Vistagate International Limited
    Senior Network Engineer
    Vistagate International Limited May 2010 - Jan 2011
    Vistagate is a niche internet service provider that delivers guest internet and internet billing solutions to hotels, motels and student accommodation properties across New Zealand and Australia. Its clients include Accor, UniLodge, Rydges, Grand Chancellor, Quest, and Campus Living Villages.After moving from Liverton Limited to a permanent role at Vistagate, my role was to manage, implement and support all of its customers and ensure a high level of service to accommodation providers and the end users of the system. This included providing 2nd and 3rd level help desk support to end users, as well as managing the expectations and delivery of solutions to property managers and business operators.
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  • Liverton Limited
    Technical Systems Engineer
    Liverton Limited Aug 2006 - May 2010
    Liverton provides technical consulting and support, specializing in internet connection and security, email security, network implementation and application development. Its clients include local government agencies, internet providers and major corporate enterprises.The responsibilities of my role included building and managing client relationships within local government and supporting the businesses primary client, Vistagate International.
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  • Battlelink Internet Cafe
    Internet Cafe Assistant
    Battlelink Internet Cafe Mar 2004 - Aug 2006
    This role involved the day to day operations of the internet cafe, serving customers, providing assistance, and fixing faulty hardware or software issues. Customer service skills were paramount as well as understanding video game trends and financial acumen.A major duty of the role was to design, setup and operate local game tournaments and events that brought in new customers and created relationships with partners for promotion, funding and prizes.

Tim Bourne Skills

Software Development Video Games Web Development Scrum Game Design Game Development Project Management Agile Methodologies Web Development Skills Network Administration Network Design Account Management Sales Management Professional Services Client Relations Business Development Product Development Proposal Writing

Tim Bourne Education Details

  • Electec College Of Technology
    Electec College Of Technology
    Information Technology
  • Shirley Boys High School
    Shirley Boys High School

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