F.J. Lennon Email & Phone Number

Silver Spring, MD

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Authored three novels under publishing deal with Simon & Schuster, including Soul Trapper, the first novel based on an iPhone app. Series optioned for film/TV, repped by CAA.
• Authored non-fiction book published by HarperCollins.
• Authored numerous screenplays for Jarrett Creative | Dawn’s Light Media |Boundary Stone Films | Pretty Penny Films
• Featured speaker: Writer’s Guild of America | American Film Institute
• Digital Hollywood | Game Developers Conference | Meet-Up
• University guest lecturer: UMD | UCLA | USC | CSU | Duquesne | Lambda School

• Advised, mentored, and managed student product development teams on web-based products during 16-week terms; 8 cohorts, 522 students.
• Lectured on product development issues (project management, UI/UX, software design, team communication and collaboration, job interviewing). One of the top-five student-rated lecturers.
• Managed 71 projects to completion; originated 18 of those 71 products.

Bethesda, MD

• Project lead for AR/VR learning products for Challenger Center for Space Science Education, which partners with NASA, NOAA, FAA, and the U.S. Department of Education to deliver unique learning experiences for students.
• Creative and production skills and responsibilities: Product design, narrative design, UX/UI design, and wireframing, production prioritization and workflow scheduling, waterfall project management, script development.
• Business development skills and responsibilities: Proposal writing and business plan writing.

Los Angeles, CA

• Built development team and drove product from concept to completion (front and back-end) for this narrative-driven, gamified corporate training platform that provides training in leadership and organizational.
• Production skills and responsibilities: Game design, instructional and narrative design, UX/UI design, wireframing, production prioritization and workflow scheduling, cross-platform Agile project management, managing.
• Business development skills and responsibilities: Venture capital (VC) research, VC pitching, business modeling, entrepreneurial development.SAMI learners progress through several stages of behavioral mastery and.
• Game Design
• Documentation Writing
• Creative IP development

Naples, FL

• Assembled and led a content development team for this social learning platform-as-a-service (PLAAS) company working with Pearson, McGraw Hill, Blackboard, and Scholastic to create video-based social learning.
• Production skills and responsibilities: Communicating complex learning information clearly. Planning, producing, casting, and directing original video content. Aggregating public domain video content. Script.

Washington, DC

• Built and led an internal team and drove product development of Legends Academy, a subscription-based, educational metagame from concept to minimum viable product in 120 days.
• Creative and production skills and responsibilities: Game design, narrative design, IP development, documentation writing, UX/UI design, wireframing, scriptwriting, production prioritization and workflow scheduling.

Washington, DC

• Planet3 is an exploration-based learning company that presents the entire Earth as a living laboratory. Empowering student curiosity and achievement, Planet3 targets Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math.
• Drove design and product development of platform and front-end content for an EdTech immersive classroom platform for middle school science that fosters learning through gameplay.
• Assembled and managed internal product development team. Prioritized production tasks and built workflow schedules that were project managed utilizing both Agile/Scrum and waterfall.
• Served as lead creative writer and editorial director of content.
• Managed production budgets, external development teams and vendors, subject matter experts, curriculum writers, art and animation asset delivery and tracking, and third-party audio vendors.

New York, NY

• Oversaw design and development of paranormal-themed digital apps based on existing and original TV properties owned and aired by Jarrett Creative.
• Wrote original feature film and television pitch treatments; developed original material.

Baton Rouge, LA & Los Angeles, CA

• Designed and oversaw production of an episodic web and mobile interactive adventure game series to teach kids ages 8-12 about diabetes.

Washington, DC

• Created InSite Gettysburg, an enterprise tour app that let users experience history where it occurred using location-based augmented reality (AR) and GPS. Deployed onsite in Gettysburg.
• Oversaw all facets of app design, managed third-party developer, oversaw Agile development.(www.insitegettysburg.com)

Los Angeles, CA

• Co-founded start-up, Heyday Games, with a mission to re-segment the social game market by creating cross-platform content specifically for the baby boomer demographic.
• Created Retro World, a nostalgia-based social game platform for gamers age 40+.
• Sold the company and Retro World IP to eGames, Inc. in 2011.
• Raised venture capital, generated business and strategic plans.
• Recruited, built, and managed a bi-coastal creative and tech team of 24.
• Fostered a creative and productive studio culture.

Designed and wrote two iPhone audio adventures: Soul Trapper and L.A. Knight.

Selected by the Federal Government, post-Columbine, to spearhead the development of Cool School, a game to teach children (grades K-2) conflict resolution skills. www.coolschoolgame.com

Recruited by Mattel’s Advanced Concepts R&D Group to create a music-themed hybrid toy/game; recruited expert talent to create patented software technology.

Consulting producer for HBO and Starz interactive showcases for DirecTV and TiVo. Production consultant for Active Portal, launched by DirecTV in 2005

Creative consultant, writer, and producer for Virtual Conventions, llc and Paramount Studios on the creation of the first official 3D Virtual Star Trek Convention, held in conjunction with the real world convention in Las Vegas

Helped pioneer the development of DIRECTV’s early interactive television channels with Wink.

Creator of To Die For, a 40’s-style film noir detective adventure game starring a 3D, computer-generated Humphrey Bogart

Creative consultant on Elmo’s Magical Number Tour and Elmo’s Magical Letter Tour, featuring the characters of Sesame Street, for the Sony Playstation and Nintendo 64.

Creative consultant and writer on Reading Quest with Aladdin, Hercules Animated Storybook, Hades’ Challenge, Ready for Math with Pooh, The Walt Disney World Explorer, and ESPN’s 2 Minute Drill. Served as a scriptwriter for Disney Online.

Designer and sole writer of Spider-Man: Venom Factor and Spider-Man: The Sinister Six, published by Simon & Schuster Interactive.

• Instrumental in the founding of the company and its initial development studio.
• Built and managed an internal development team of 40+ that delivered Take2's first 11 products.

• Managed external development studio of 25+.

• Co-founded a game studio from a college dorm room at the age of 21, grew it to a staff of 25, developed 17 games, secured publishing deals with Electronic Arts, MicroProse, and Empire Interactive (Europe).
• Raised venture capital. Generated strategic business plans. Acquired by MicroProse.
• Secured the first-ever software product development licenses from Marvel Comics. Produced and designed the first Marvel Comics games for PCs.