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Las Vegas, NV, US

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Las Vegas Metropolitan Area

• Manage business development and partnership development efforts for this Germany-based games/media conglomerate, spanning numerous product lines including PC games, advertising, and mobile apps
• Identify/recruit/engage leading app and game developers (100+ to date), negotiating new licensing agreements and partnership relationships to drive joint revenue
• Deliver persuasive, passionate, high-quality presentations to senior decision-makers and serve as a developer advocate internally to drive new features and functionality that will help facilitate world-class CX delivery
• Drive the growth and adoption of devices and platform services, serving as the primary point of contact for strategic content partners
• Work with product, marketing, and senior leadership to grow the app ecosystem, spark innovation, and expand the company's capabilities into new markets and device types
• Successfully maintained all partner relationships, managed change, and integrated all related partner processes and procedures following Gamigo's 2019 acquisition of Wild Tangent

Greater Seattle Area

• Managed a portfolio of 70 development partners around the globe, handling all developer onboarding, advocacy, relations, and planning/scheduling responsibilities for releases using PC, MMO, Mobile, and HTML 5
• Assisted partners in developing content for the company's platforms, negotiating deal terms/contracts; recognized for helping increase production from 10-15 game deployments per month to over 100
• Drove publishing/communication processes for Steam and downloadable games—including various content distribution steps such as asset creation, text, pricing, scheduling, and pre- and post-release planning
• Collaborated on a cross-functional basis with internal/external Marketing, Product Development, Product Management, Finance, and Customer Support teams to support effective partnership growth/integration
• Worked closely with DevOps and Dev teams to increase publishing capacity, improve licensing compatibility across multiple build types, and boost the publishing success rates for both Core and non-Unity games
• Assisted with testing/release of mobile products for OEMs such as AT&T, Samsung, LG, ZTE, Sony & T-Mobile

Greater Seattle Area

• Managed US mobile game submissions for AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Nextel, Handmark, Handango, Virgin, Bell, Telus, and other Canadian and South American off-deck partners; deployed 5000+ SKUs globally
• Worked for a special R&D group focused on incorporating a game-porting platform from GameHouse into the company’s existing operations to facilitate new mobile game development via a proprietary porting engine

Greater Seattle Area

• Identified bugs in games for different Amaze Entertainment games
• Gained experience with Sony Playstation Portable
• Created bug entry, regression, and bi-weekly progress reports
• Conducted traditional feature testing and certification testing
• Worked with producers, programmers, artists, and project leads
• Assisted the design team in identifying imbalances in game play

Greater Seattle Area

• Tested over 54 SKUs spanning multiple Nintendo platforms