Creative director in charge of the art department located in Bangalore, India from my Las Vegas, NV location. Primary duties include the day-to-day art review of assets (art, animation and audio) being created for a wide variety of clients and game products (AAA games, social games, casino products for social, real-money and brick and mortar casinos), business development and strategies, sales and securing new clients and projects, and client relations.

Independent consultant working with a wide array of creative service studios and independent developers to provide services to game and traditional media organizations. Art Outsourcing Manager and conceptual art provided to local game developer for upcoming multi-platform title, Sales efforts include representing domestic and foreign 2D and 3D art and animation studios, localization, and marketing businesses. Business development efforts include working with top-tier traditional media organizations to expand service offerings through strategic relationships with key game industry support studios. Clients include White Moon Dreams, Ascent Media, Disney Imagineering, Brain Zoo Studios, The Media Barons, Secret Plan Studios, and Zvky Design.

Creative director in charge of the art department. Primary duties include the design and development of the various casino-style games (Slots, Scratch Cards, Sports, Sweepstakes, etc) for kizzang.com and the Kizzang App and the building and managing of the offshoring pipeline for external development assistance.

Creative director in charge of the art department. Primary duties include scheduling, planning, and managing the development and implementation of all project art and animation requirements internally. Coaching, critiqueing and mentoring of art staff as well as enforcing corporate policies, and giving performance reviews. Other duties include the development of an outsource and offshoring solution for Garage Games, business development efforts and being an account manager for service industries in the domain of film, art, television, and music.

Executive producer responsible for the management and leadership of the production group within Big Stage and contributing to the propagation of the technology to media clients. Big Stage is a social networking and media entertainment and tech company with the goal of redefining content and advertising by allowing the end user to put themselves into any prepared content as the star. Responsibilities include the development of all content for the website www.bigstage.com through the management of internal and external (domestic and foreign) resources, building relationships with clients/partners for content, negotiating rates and contracts with vendors, building a production pipeline and defining best practice processes for efficient workflow, defining and tracking of metrics and completion rates of all internal and external resources, resource tracking and allocation, planning, scheduling, and working with other groups within the organization to ensure content is tested thoroughly and meets all company goals in a timely fashion. Foreign vendor relationships include studios in Mumbai and Bangalore, India and Shanghai, China.

Co-founder of the creative services business unit within the Thomson/Technicolor organization that provides creative services (animation, art, and design) to the entertainment industry with a focus on games support and visual development. Responsible for building the business from its infancy and providing the Thomson/Technicolor organization with a foothold into games and game development support. Assisted a core team of game industry veterans in building a successful business from scratch and participating in AAA titles from top-tier publishers and developers. Primary duties include foreign outsource management and development, business development and strategies, sales and securing new clients and projects, client management, project bidding, financial reporting, planning, scheduling, resource tracking and allocation, creative leadership of domestic and foreign staff (Bangalore, India), and enforcing corporate policies. TIS title support includes: “God of War 2”, “Gears of War”, “Unreal Tournament 3”, “Saints Row 2”, “Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune”, “Blacksite: Area 51”, “Warhawk”, “Spyro the Dragon”, “Silent Hill”, “Hour of Victory”, “Dead Head Fred”, “The Con”, “Stargate Worlds”, “Heist”, “Lineriders”, and “Ballers”.

Development director in charge of the animation department of “Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault” for the PC. Primary duties include scheduling, planning, and managing the development and implementation of all animation (AI, gag, and cinematics) through constant coordination and communication with engineers, artists, level designers, sound designers, and the localization team as well as enforcing corporate policies, giving performance reviews and resource allocation. Other duties include the budgeting, scheduling, and management of outsourced animations for “Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault” as well as recruiting animators and providing training resources to the team.