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Maple Valley, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

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C3PO - People Product ProcessResponsible for recruiting, establishing culture, product strategy and partnerships, and P&L planning.Raised over $4m in seed financing through Angel and strategic partners.Recruited and led all development staffing areas including Engineering, Design, Art, QA/Test, and Production.

Hamburg, Hh, De

Recruited and led cross-functional development team for a new game studio for GGS to enter the mobile/free to play RPG genre, growig the studio from first initial hire to over 30 staff in under 6 months.Conducted due diligence for M&A leading to acquisition of a game team into GGS.Responsible for strategy, process development, coordination with corporate central services such as HR/Recruiting, business intel / analysis, P&L forecasting.

Zürich, Zürich, Ch

Studio Manager - created a Seattle-area VR sports application development team to take experimental real-time sports data tracking and visualization and make it accessible for consumers.

An independent game studio in the Greater Seattle area.I worked for a great bunch of experienced folks that hired me as their Chief Energy Officer - I keep the energy flowing so they can create wondrous new works of interactive entertainment.

Seattle, Wa, Us

enterpriseSeattle is a non-profit dedicated to growing the job base for the Puget Sound region in key areas such as Digital Media. Our current focus for the game industry is on helping startups through programs like www.GameStartup101.com or for existing game companies to open offices in the greater Seattle area. We can help you understand the advantages in everything from the local office real estate market to the outstanding network of hundreds of video game companies already operating here.A key initiative for 2012 and beyond is to help connect the local Game Industry with the educational institutions for internship programs and curiculum needs for graduating students. If you are in the game industry and want to start an office in the Puget Sound area, contact enterpriseSeattle for help.

Co-founder of video game studioRecruited and led cross-functional team of nearly 100 staff to develop, ship and operate the first Marvel licensed MMORPG world-wide.Responsible for all studio operations and management.

Managed all aspects internal development for Seattle and Shanghai, China Studios working on online casual and MMOG titles for PC and Xbox360.Reported to the CTO of online division.

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Founder / VP of Worldwide StudiosFormed the company, recruited the team, put the product strategy together.I assembled the furniture, bought the networking cables, ordered the pizza, etc.Developed 6 approved titles for Microsoft XBox360 Live Arcade and a mid-session online PC MMOG, while exploring potential development deals with Microsoft, advergaming projects, and eventually managing the acquisition of the company by Vivendi Games / Sierra Online.

Game Industry Consulting - Overseas Business Development, concentrating on China, South Korea, and Eastern Europe Game Design Game Technology Evaluation Military / Government Market DARPAPrimary Game Industry Program Manager for DARPA's "DARWARS" Training Superiority effort to use game technology for training and educaton for US Dept of Defense.Planned and helped manage the development of "AMBUSH" - a training game tool for Dept of Defense personnel to develop knowledge and skills for dealing with vehicle ambushes in convoys used for over a decade prepare for deployments to combat areas.Depart of Homeland Security - multiuser training platform for First Responders to train in multidepartment virtual setting for real-world disaster scenarios (allowing Law Enforcement, Fire, and Emergency services to train in a joint online virtual settings to solve communication and co-ordination across different agencies).

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Group Manager for the Games Group at Go2Net (which then merged with Infospace).Managed the development of a cross-device multiplayer game platform supporting PC, PDA, Set Top Box, and Mobile devices playing together.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Original DirectX Team (Ver 1 - 6), Developer Relations worldwide with partners as large as EA worldwide and as small as a two person indie dev in Nova Scotia.Microsoft Game Zone (Zone.com) Online Game Product Manager for multiplayer gaming and partners.Window Game Sampler Producer (versions 1, 2, and 3) with several million units for direct PC OEMs.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Intelligence Operations - Pilot Training, Military systems capabilities, Intelligence analysis and briefing, Intelligence collection from pilotsRussian Linguist - INF TreatyTop Secret / SCI clearance.

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Russian Studies

Advanced Russian Studies, Inf Treaty Interpreter Course

Russian Studies, Russian Basic Course

Russian Studies

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