Rebooted the Orange County Chapter of the IGDA over 2011 -- coordinated topics, speakers, locations, snacks, and a raft of administrivia. I also introduced speakers, moderated panels, and promoted the events. See the IGDA OC Facebook, LinkedIn, and G+ groups I run to get involved or for further details.

Designed or PM-ed-to-release the following features in GST's Direct2Game in-game commerce product: pre-funded wallets, virtual currencies, microtransactions, subscriptions, skinnable web stores, promo, coupon, and redeem codes, new currencies (Euros and GBP), and a self-service admin site -- to meet needs expressed by Activision, EA, Crytek, and internal IGN stakeholders such as digital distribution and finance. I wrote and delivered a presentation at GDC Online (Austin) on this offering. I championed the "secure and meter" mantra behind the GameSpy Open initiative for more than a year before it commenced. Also successfully championed increased metrics, software debt reduction through widespread refactoring and redesign, and the first production NoSQL systems.Selected Products Supported: Red Dead Redemption, Borderlands, Civ V, Civ IV: Colonization, UFC, Smackdown vs. Raw, MX vs. ATV, Section 8, STALKER, Conduit, Star Trek DAC, Fairytale Fights, ARMA II

I interfaced with a variety of internal and external customers, steered product direction, ran Beta programs, wrote feature and product specifications and positioning documents, wrote and delivered technical presentations, training classes, and tech demos around the world to a variety of audience sizes mostly for Oracle Developer and Designer as part of Oracle's Tools Division.