Established and manage this full-service Gaming Consulting company. DeWaal Consulting not only helps its clients with traditional matters such as navigating the complex regulatory, Intellectual Property and incumbent vendor roadblocks of the North American Gaming Marketplace, but also provides end to end support around new products, with everything from technical and compliance design services, contracted development resources, vendor/partner relationships and even access to potential investors.DeWaal Consulting’s goal is to help partners get products and services up and running and commercialized as quickly, simply, and extensively as possible.

Established and manage this full service Bespoke 3rd Party Game Studio In today’s world, a one-size-fits-all solution can never be good enough; and this is especially true when it comes to the modern gaming experience. The Kingsize Games approach is to live and breathe game design as only a true player can, and to follow an intuitive game design approach that is backed up by demographic data and validated by exhaustively simulated game math results.Specializing in bespoke slot, table and ETG products for both land-based and iGaming markets

Co-founded this disruptive game and platform manufacturer to drive the next generation of cashless and on-prem/Reservation mobile gaming products.Rapid Games - first in industry BMM certified Mobile Class II/III on-prem and on-reservation Mobile Mobile Gaming Platform and games. Support for BYOD, Tablets, Interactive and a variety of cashless wired clients including "Smart" multi position Tables. The product also supports a full service Race and Sports book from Metric Gaming.

Established Nektan America as a subsidiary to Nektan PLC a provider of "White Label" mobile casino gaming products in Europe, with the goal helping the company get a footing in the Americas. Established the "Respin/Rapid Games" JV with Spin Games in 2014 and supported several fund raising initiatives for both US and European initiatives

Founder and co-owner/operator of this climbing gym with over 1000 square feet of roof climbing, and its associated Mountain Guide Service. RRCC is one of the larger wooden gyms left in the world. The gym holds a permit to guide climbers in the Red Rock Canyon Conservation area. A labor of love.

Manage the efforts of ATI's "interactive" and "gaming system" product management teams

Participated in a crowd sourced initiative to create an experimental site to test the feasibility of creating dynamic resumes based on ongoing employer and peer performance reviews. The product was developed and launched but finally put on the back-burner as launch funding initiatives failed.

Recruit key industry professionals and provide creative and technical guidance to this studio that was established to develop localized US game content and explore the potential of Social Media and related technologies in the Casino Gaming space for this Japanese gaming company

Established and led the efforts of this hybrid studio that built next generation products for both Game and System sides of the company. Introduced and pioneered the concept of a "Service Window" or secondary display in a slot machine, today service window represents a significant "sub" industry generating significant revenues for most of the major gaming vendors. Introduced new decision based game mechanics such as "Geared to Win". Led the development of the Reel Edge platform and pioneered skill based game features. Developed the next generation of MLPs by adding thin client secondary bonus game functionality to existing platforms and games. Several tournament and system bonusing products

Founded and led the efforts of this Gaming Technology and Consulting Company that was acquired by IGT in 2004.Pioneering efforts in LAMP/Cloud based gaming products and other disruptive gaming technologies Friendly Matrix with its JV partner Western Money Systems placed emphasis on products for the under served Nevada Restricted Gaming License market and the emerging TITO market.Designed, developed and deployed industry first mobile/tablet based player and slot performance dashboards as well as other bolt on products for CDS/Oasis and Mykohn systems.On the consulting front, provided system selection and implementation services to several commercial and tribal gaming operations. Provided outsourced IT management & services.

Provided technology guidance and led the efforts of the various IT departments of this Gaming Management Start-up that designed, built and operated casinos across the United States.Teller House Casino - Central City, Colorado (First casino in Co)Prairie Knights Casino & Lodge - Bismark, N DakotaSpeaking Rock Casino & Bingo - El Paso, Texas (Class II)Resort at Summerlin - Las Vegas, Nevada

Led the technology team at this flagship property from construction through several years of operation. At the time of its opening the Carousel Entertainment World was the largest casino in the southern hemisphere with 1800 slot machines 60 table games, a boutique hotel, cinema complex, show bar and a wide variety of food and beverage outlets