Willem Delventhal Email & Phone Number

- Responsible for design leadership at a top notch mod generation company- Coordinate with other leadership and the team to strategize overall vision and product- Building an entirely new Design Department to create gameplay oriented mods

Atlanta, US

• Founded an entirely new kind of game development bootcamp: online, gamified and live-only
• Teach game design, game production and many other skills to hundreds of aspiring game developers
• Source and manage a diverse collection of professors from across the industry
• Gamified the bootcamp via classic retention systems to bring out the joy of learning
• Oversaw, managed and offered game design support to 20 published games, primarily released on mobile in the Unity game engine
• Hired and directly manage core team of three direct reports

• Founded an indie studio with two other co-founders
• Built an AR enabled board game via a web-based prototype and a React Native companion app
• Took concept from nothing to successfully funded via Kickstarter in less than one year
• Ideated and prototyped multiple game concepts to ensure the best possible chances of success
• Conceived of combat deck building mini-game and playtested it to release
• Vetted, hired and managed team of 10 who wrote and created Taelmoor game

Berkeley, CA, US

- Responsible for content generation in highly moddable life-sim game- Narrative and fun focussed, chasing the fun inside the game framework- Work in Unity using in-house engine tools

London, GB

• Advise on gameplay production including game systems, progression, user experience and more
• Offer confidence and guidance to junior and mid level gameplay engineers, producers and designers
• Guide use of the tech stack, a Flutter UI layer and games built in the Unity Game Engine

Redwood City, California, US

• Lead Game Design efforts on WithMe, an internal startup of 50 building a friendship-first metaverse
• Edited mid-size 3D worlds and levels inside of the Unreal game engine
• Balanced values and gameplay via Unreal Blueprints
• Ideate and prototype numerous game concepts ranging in size from purchasable toys to entire worlds
• Communicate and playtest with users to better understand our players and disseminate these learnings to the rest of the team
• Lead the development of a better user research pipeline including recurring playtests, open user communication channels, and extensive data analytics

El Cerrito, California, US

• Delved into the land of experimental game design to ideate, prototype and conceive of 6 games for cats that humans can play with them
• Acted as full stack engineer to build entirety of app in Unity using C# with a Firebase backend and Node.JS data analytics
• Expanded team to include a veterinary co-founder, advisory board of 5, and production team of 8
• Gave GDC talk on Empathetic Game Design for Cats and won the Colorado Veterinary Innovation Summit pitch contest

San Francisco, CA, US

• Acted as Game Designer and Senior Engineer on experimental rhythm training game
• Built out two fully featured games in Unity C# and in Cocos2D as well as contributing to multiple other projects
• Attempted to address underserved user segment by creating a game in a completely unexplored category: rhythm
• Partnered with visual artist to create Feel the Beat, an 80s themed rhythm training game that became one of the most played games on the platform
• Ran bi-weekly playtests in order to guarantee quality of game concept
• Created and ported over half a dozen other games in Coco2D with Lua, Unity C#, and Flash Actionscript

San Francisco, CA, US

• Acted Junior Play Engineer for LumiKids, an internal startup within Lumosity
• Rapidly prototyped, designed and programmed half a dozen children's educational games
• In just six months we shipped over a dozen games, released four completely unique app experiences and served hundreds of thousands of players, most of them just 2-6 years in age.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Spent one summer working with wildly successful mental software startup Lumosity
• The company creates simple games that effectively assist in the training of different parts of the brain.
• Ported three of their existing games from C++ to Javascript in the Cocos2d-X engine
• Completed numerous prototypes and project pitches for Lumos leadership
• I learned more than I could have imagined, and was ready for more.

Bristol, RI, US

• Worked in the RWU Alumni Department, a sales based donation service
• Raised $2,000 as a caller with one pledge an hour, 47% more effective than average
• Promoted to manager after 3 terms
• Managed and lead a team of five callers to meet donation and call goals, resulting in $9,000 in total team donations in first term as manager
• Oversaw a total of twelve callers every night
• Moved on in order to start my own software club on campus

Bristol, RI, US

• Provided mock process consultation for hypothetical business ideas from students while working with a full-time faculty
• Assisted in teaching a first level business class to over 20 freshmen in a living-learning community
• Tutored and advise freshman level business students in the Gabelli School of Business

• Assisted sales team to effectively generate leads by researching and providing new recommendations on a software system
• Collaborated with a team of five, including a full-time and adjunct faculty
• Assisted in creation of newly coded software to combine current systems into one screen
• Created psuedocode and process flowchart for an email blast and lead screening system

Braintree, MA, US

• Ran an independent branch of a house painting business including all marketing strategies, sales, customer service, training, recruiting and management
• Generated a revenue of over $60,000, up from the average of $45,000, between June and August of 2013
• Recruited and actively interviewed for employees, looking for enthusiasm, strong work ethic, team and self-motivation
• Managed a marketing team of up to three people to operate lead generation
• Managed and motivated a team of six painters, including one Production Manager
• Communicated company goals throughout the team, including expectations

Newport, Rhode Island, US

• Researched and strategized ways for the NCCC to grow and enhance membership
• Met with leaders of the NCCC to learn more about history of the business group and member audience
• Developed a five-year revenue projection to showcase potential benefits of various suggestions
• Presented to board of directors on plan to create a barter exchange system

Bachelor Of Arts In Business Management, Minors In Computer Science And Web Development, Magna Cum Laude

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