Gregory Acuna Email & Phone Number

Goa, India

• Game development company creating social impact games both as physical products and video games. Managed creatives and tech in both the US and India as well as advisors in Europe and Canada.
• Held daily scrums working on multiple games simultaneously using agile methods with bi-weekly sprints and player testing. Created budgets, schedules for tech team and production. Did grant writing, crowdfunding and.
• Created, produced and distributed the “Acting Kindly” series of printed card games played in public to create unique player experiences centering around kindness and bonding. o Original game played in 27 cities spread.
• Developed mobile game betas for Android and iOSo “Frenemies 2 Friends” - https://bit.ly/3gqVuZ5o “Save the Aliens” - https://bit.ly/3Go5fBSo “Acting Kindly Me” - https://bit.ly/3Gwpptw
• Designed and prototyped of “Zarbul” a revolutionary educational virtual world community bringing student/players into a 3d universe to learn together through cooperation and collaboration. Promo video.
• Extensive experience creating GDDs, Art/Tech Bibles and play testing mobile/PC games with users.

Minneapolis, MN, US

• On contract with IBM through Collabera. Hired to replace a PM leaving the next day. Quickly up to speed to managing multiple data/analytics projects with remote teams spread across the US and India for one of the.
• Leading the migration of data and reporting to new cloud-based system.
• Developing dashboards for both in house commercial use and remote data gathering by physicians.
• Directing IT effort for new Predictive Retention series of projects to assist in customer satisfaction.
• Using Agile/Scrum and Kanban Jira boards, Confluence & Microsoft Teams as appropriate for projects.

• Game Design Workshops, Pearl Academy, Summer 2020, India, Two introductory online courses
• Game Design Workshop, Pearl Academy, Spring 2020, India, 60-hour online course with 50+ students
• Curriculum Design, Pearl Academy, Apr. 2020, India, Designed 4 yr. College Curriculum in Game Design
• Workshop Pune Design Festival, Jan. 2020, Pune, India, “Intro to Game Design”
• Speaker Seaside Startup Summit, Mar. 2018, Goa, India, “Planet Earthlings Games”
• Workshop Science Film Festival, Jan. 2018, Goa, India, “Introduction to Unity”

• Managed multiple international teams of over 120 people in seven different countries in North America, Asia and Europe including 60-member animation/compositing team in Mumbai and 40 person live-action production team.
• Produced 22-minute TV pilot for 20% normal international budgets.
• Oversaw design team with members in the UK, Belgium, Italy and India.
• Managed team of 40 seats Autodesk Maya, 10 seats Fusion compositing, plus Premiere & After Effects.
• Live-Action Production Team of 40+ shooting Green Screen using RedOne at 4K in Los Angeles.
• Developed websites, social media and designs for educational virtual.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Managed Data Warehouse projects including overseeing both Los Angeles studio based team and offshore support in India. Also consulted on major IT and Business Transformation project for studio.

Greg was brought on as the idea for a new electronic Futures Market was being conceived. He managed the day-to-day operations of the software and internet development working with teams in Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis and Hertfordshire, UK. He made significant creative contributions to establishing the company’s identity and modeling the overall.

Greg helped manage a team that was behind schedule and over budget developing a piece of International Human Resources Management software. He oversaw the reorganizing of the project, hired key new personnel, efficiently brought it back on schedule, and then returned the management to internal staff.

Ma, English/Creative Writing

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science And Government