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Detroit, Mi, Us

Troy, Michigan, United States

Responsible for all profit and loss, client relations, development milestones, contracts, deliveries and team management for the simulation development team at PS Technology, a Union Pacific subsidiary.

Senior manager of Simulation Development at PS Technology, subsidiary of Union Pacific railroad. Responsible for all developments, revenue, team and contractor management, client relations and contracts. Title changed to Director after 18 months.

Project managed training simulation development and video production at PS Technology, division of Union Pacific. Managed timelines, milestones, deliveries, outsourcing and client relations for simulation development for railroad training.

Detroit, Mi

Small mobile app and game business started by three industry professionals in the Metro Detroit area. Co-founder of the company and in the role of CEO and producer managed business end of the company and directed all projects. This included task management, deadlines / milestones as well as maintaining our business identity and growing our brand.

Detroit, Mi

Digital marketing consultant and liaison for Automotive Dealers across the country. Responsibilities included analyzing metrics of visits to client's websites, proposing digital marketing solutions based on metrics and goals and working with dealers to get their site compliant with industry standards and modifying the site data when needed to meet those standards.

Contracted for a short term project, designing and writing documentation for contract proposal for an overhaul of an App for the US Navy.

Troy, Mi

Instructor of four courses including three game design courses: Game User Interfaces, Game Theory and Mechanics and an Introduction to Game Development course. Also taught a Web Design course as well. Constructed the course materials, lectures, quizzes and exams as well as projects and exercises to reinforce the material learned. Was a crucial member of a team built by the Faculty Head of the Game Department.

Contractor for Yeti, helping them with several projects. Primary task included helping them build marketing and presentation materials for highlighting their titles. Also helped the dev teams with work on the games and was working on a finished title, getting it ready to release on iOS.

Created pitch and design documents for over a half-dozen projects, ranging from games, video, and websites to business mobile applications. Also was lead designer for the iPad and tablet interactive book app for Ben Hogan's 5 Lessons. Largest project was the Zorro: Shadow of Vengeance video game for mobile devices. Upon exit of lead designer left halfway through the project, assumed the role and led the project and the team.

As a senior design class project, worked with Scientifically Proven studios to produce over 30 working mini-game prototypes to the studio for their game Man vs. Wild for the Xbox 360.

East Lansing, Mi

Managed the communication and event planning for the game development club at MSU, Spartasoft. Worked with our vice president to plan and pitch a request for funding to pay for members of the club to go to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Was responsible all documentation and paperwork along with handling, accounting and distributing the money when it was received.

Worked on a team to produce a web based game that taught players about credit and automotive financing while still being fun and interactive. The project was a competition between Spartasoft/Michigan State University and Wolverinesoft/University of Michigan. Spartasoft's team won and paid for all members to attend the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco and showcase the title at the expo.

Flash based web design firm in California. Worked onsite focused on Quality Assurance, debugging and scripting along with design decisions made during crucial deadlines that helped push the company's interface live. Researched potential sales and did market research which led to the company to acquiring new clients.

Ba, Telecommunications, Information Studies, And Media

Activities and Societies: SpartaSoft (Officer), FSAE - Specialized in Game Design and Development - Cognate of Business (similar to minor).

Education record