Frank Simon Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, CA, US

Madison, WI, US

• Joined the team to aid a project encountering challenges, swiftly assessing its status and devising a strategic direction for the existing team, along with a roadmap to mitigate risks and ensure completion.
• Provided direct management and mentorship to a team of 10 producers spanning various experience levels from associate to senior.
• Oversaw a distributed team numbering over 190 individuals at the peak of our development efforts.
• Utilized tools such as Advanced Roadmap in Jira to articulate and visualize the essential components of our product roadmap.
• Orchestrated the development of two sophisticated demos showcasing the studio's capabilities. These demonstrations, crafted in UE5, integrated advanced AI to enable immersive character interactions.

Bellevue, Washington, US

• Managed new and existing projects for the Digital Publishing team working on the core IPs for Wizards with Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering, shipping the first game in a new publishing organization.
• Built a production team from the ground up to manage licenses and new products in addition to working in collaboration with the various creative teams across the organization.
• Trained, mentored, managed production team across their products ensuring alignment with the overall studio portfolio and ensuring alignment with our core IP.
• Established roadmap, KPIs and production life cycles for our games using best practices.
• Established project budgets for these titles maintaining and refining the P&L across their development.
• Helped our development teams transition from AA to AAA development lifecycles including identifying key roles needed to build titles in this space.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Reviewed, evaluated, analyzed new concepts for Global Publishing singing multiple concepts into development deals.
• Worked with teams to establish clear goals for projects and refine concepts to production ready plans.
• Managed external partners during development to ensure highest quality and on time delivery.
• Managed profit and loss (P&L) for my titles.
• Helped create, evolve, and maintain the development framework for all Global Publishing titles.
• Drove compliance on publishing with regards to European Data Protection Act.

San Mateo, California, US

• Originated and developed products that represent the highest possible quality consumer entertainment for the PlayStation family of computer entertainment systems.
• Proposed project budgets based on anticipated project costs and sales potential by territory.
• Managed projects and fiscal year budgeting and expenditures and P&L.
• Managed day-to-day production issues.
• Managed and mentored franchise producing team.

• Developed and maintained key franchises identifying growth opportunities and executing against plans.
• Helped train and mentor production line management.
• Setup and developed process & procedure for outsourcing on The Sims 2 Franchise.
• Managed engineering team of 17 to retool and revamp existing Sims pipeline to all development of expansion packs and new Sims 2 IP.
• Directly managed team of 20 engineers for the Sims console helping to bring in ship dates and increase product quality.

• Oversaw management of entire team of 38 including 18 programmers, game and sound designers, CG artists and production designers.
• Helped start company from ground up including hiring of key initial staff and establishing procedures for production.

Skopje, MK

• Managed team of 20 including programmers, game designers, digital and production artists.
• Augmented existing game design and helped develop concepts into game implementation.
• Originally brought to Alexandria by client producer at Virgin Games to rescue projects that were behind schedule.

• Managed team of 15 including programmers, digital and production artists. Created initial game designs and produced those designs across the length of the project.