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Madrid, Es

Stockholm, Se

Founded The Forge Studio in Barcelona with the mission of spearheading King entrance into the mid-core genre.Successfully scaled the studio by recruiting top talent and setting up a great studio culture that translates into high motivation across multinational teams obtaining the highest scores across companywide surveys.Leading the team through lots of technical and design innovation by having a strong player and product focus and using development practises with a strong emphasis on team passion, ownership and vision alignment.Also representing King at different events as spokesperson.

Stockholm, Se

Responsible for the Studio KPIs and games strategy & performance, I drove the studio to its highest revenue peak through data based decisions and innovation.Responsible for setting up and maintaining launch and post launch strategy for 3 titles: - Bubble Witch Saga 2 - Top 10 Grossing US Games- Diamond Digger Saga - Top 20 Grossing US Games- Papa Pear Saga - Top 30 Grossing US Games Led and managed a qualified team of Data Scientist and Business Performance Managers and worked closely with King stakeholders to drive business performance initiatives across King.

Stockholm, Se

Responsible of the creation, development and performance for the game Diamond Digger Saga (Top 20 Grossing US Games).Worked closely with Producers to create a strong vision for the game and drove through game design and data-based decisions its development from inception to a successful launch and into a very profitable post launch strategy. Accountable for setting and meeting revenue goals by working closely with stakeholders.Innovated in many areas of business performance achieving several substantial revenue uplifts.

Las Rozas De Madrid, Es

Founder of a consultant company with the goal of helping business grow through new technologies: video games, social networks, web-apps, etc.

Salamanca, Es

Responsible for leading a 50+ people studio on the development of HiHola, an educational MMOG. I worked defining product guidelines, goals, revenue models and business strategies for the company. I also recruited and established the Design, Technical and Art teams, and achieved initial studio goals on a very tight schedule. Working closely with the COO I was involved also in many tasks across the company in different fields: from technical and creative to marketing and business.

Betybyte S.L. (MMO game)Tirity Studio S.L. (custom Label&Editing application)ESIC Business & Marketing School (http://www.lafabricadeilusiones.es)WUNDERMAN (El jubilado señor Claus)Betybyte S.L. (La Oca Loca)Imperio Pop S.L.Caray Madrid S.L.Lario Blanco S.L.

Madrid, Madrid, Es

Redwood City, Ca, Us

After EA bought Bullfrog, I worked on different games like Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, SHOX and F1 Championship Season 2000. I also acted as technical advisor, evangelist, and researcher in many other projects.My biggest achievement was my work on Quake 3 Revolution where I ported the Quake 3 engine to PS2 adding many features like 4 player split-screen mode and overcoming massive technical challenges.

As part of the R&D team worked on many games pioneering shadowing algorithms, realtime lightmap generation, optimisations, FX, etc.Some of the games I worked on were: Football Manager 2000, The F.A. Premier League Stars or Theme Park World.

Co-designed and programmed a full flight management system (FMS) for recreational aviation. Using an ARINC database, GPS data, and electric compass and airspeed sensors, the FMS simulated the whole range of systems.

Worked on an 3d engine and tools for the company.

Coded and designed my first commercial game: World Wide Rally (a Sega Rally clone). It was too my first 3d engine: a perspective corrected software renderer with level editing and art pipeline tools.