Brian Meinders Email & Phone Number

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

San Francisco Bay Area

• Part of a team that began the Playtest program at LucasArts, responsible for all internal and external playtesting.
• Set up, monitored, and mediated daily internal playtests with development teams of all internal projects.
• Created, distributed and collected surveys for all playtests.
• Generated daily reports used by designers and engineers to make gameplay and performance decisions.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Credited as Assistant Lead on four titles: Monkey Island 2, Monkey Island 1 (mobile), Lego Clone Wars, and The Force Unleashed 2 (handheld).
• Responsible for database management, bug projections, and staff supervision to ensure all critical issues were found prior to submissions.
• Part of a team that revised all QA internal documents for quality and consistency.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Credited as Tester on three titles: Fracture, Indiana Jones Staff of Kings, Lego Indiana Jones 2.
• Responsible for finding, reporting and following up on bugs in an efficient manner.

• Integral member of the management team, responsible for daily operations of a 36,000 square foot country-themed dance club.
• Created and maintained schedule for all departments.
• Supervised activities of approximately seventy-five employees.
• Led productive weekly staff meetings and assisted in hiring and training of new employees.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

• Sold furniture from various categories in a retail environment
• Followed up on all sales to ensure complete customer satisfaction

• Responsible for daily operations of 10,000 square foot Top 40-themed, multi-venue dance club.
• Led weekly meetings with Marketing Director to determine promotions, nightly specials and advertising.
• Responsible for tracking, planning and ordering inventory of supplies, liquor and beer.
• Authored three training manuals for bartenders, waitstaff and doorstaff as well as trained assistant managers.
• Also transferred within company to manage other Barmuda holdings including Coyote’s in Waterloo, Iowa and Joker’s in Cedar Falls.

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Education record