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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Hiring top talent in game development, marketing, sales, finance, ops, med device, pharma, and product to create engaging mobile, web, and AR/VR projects for medical professionals to advance the practice of medicine through play.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Lead production for the launch and new content of Gastro Ex on mobile platforms.• Lead production for the iOS AR update of Airway Ex, along with Gastro Ex on VR.

• Host of the 5-star rated "Game Dev Advice" Podcast & YouTube Channel with listeners in 90 countries - https://www.youtube.com/@gamedevadvice, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/game-dev-advice-the-game-developers-podcast/id1450096263

San Francisco, California, Us

• Led Production for three different central service teams within Zynga's social slots division.• Led Production for a worldwide launch of "This Is Vegas", a classic 3-reels slots Facebook game.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Consulted and owned Production for monthly mobile updates of the critically acclaimed "WWE Immortals" fighting game on iOS & Android with over 7 million downloads.

Burbank, Ca, Us

• Lead Production for the development of Marvel Avengers Initiative, the studio’s first iOS app, meeting a key co-marketing release date and generating over 4 million downloads along with an App Store rating of 4 out of 5 stars.• Effectively managed Production with a short development cycle of a Captain America update, providing critical new content to align with the holiday season and drive new downloads.• Oversaw Production and relationships with key IP stakeholders on an unannounced, high profile Disney project with a $1.5MM budget.

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

• Assumed ownership of a critically important project in the final stages of development, executing a full spectrum of project management functions to achieve all milestones and deliverables.• Facilitated the development of project documentation and presentations, spanning design documents, greenlight and milestone review presentations, feature matrices, and other core documents.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

• Contributed to the successful merger with an industry leading broadband video encoder company by drafting IP disclosure documentation and meeting with key stakeholders.• Served as a key architect of product roadmaps that drove 30% gains in revenue as a result of improved prioritization of features and software release planning.• Introduced a series of process improvements to gain efficiencies in workflow, yielding the achievement of key product releases in nearly half of the time of prior iterations.

Us

• Served in a leadership role as the first Producer/Project Manager on the internal Mortal Kombat team, hitting all key deadlines for 3 releases which generated $225MM in gross revenue over an 8 years. • Established and managed project budgets exceeding $13MM while staying on budget. • Led the development of a broad spectrum of support documents for project management purposes, including technical design documents, software design documents, and project schedules.

• Key Producer/Project Manager at this multi-platform studio by managing milestone deliverables, stakeholders and expectations for 3rd party clients and publishers.• Successfully managed two internal development teams creating games on tight timelines for PC and console platforms.

Marlborough, Ma, Us

• Managed and oversaw develop the flagship "Connections" software CD bundled worldwide with all U.S. Robotics modems.

Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, De

• U.S. Product Development point-of-contact to manage development, localization, and help expand North American sales for Germany’s Blue Byte Software.

New York, Ny, Us

• Lead Production, contributed design and wrote content for a PC Beavis & Butt-head title as part of MTV’s "Cheap Clicks" value software line.

New York, Ny, Us

• Promoted into a role of co-managing the Internal QA department; a group of 24 Software Testers who worked under compressed deadlines on various hardware platforms published by different Viacom divisions.

New York, Ny, Us

• Managed a small group of Software Testers, wrote bug reports and worked directly with Software Engineers and Management.

• Owned and managed a small QA and Marketing group with clients in LA, Chicago and Japan.

Tokyo, Jp

• Promoted into a newly created position to be the focal point of contact between consumers and NEC’s Marketing, Sales, Public Relations and Product Development departments.

Tokyo, Jp

• Helped end users on NEC’s consumer hotline with game play strategies, technical support solutions and release date information.

• Developed slide and video productions for a variety of consumer, industrial and medical equipment multi-media business presentations.

Bfa, In Graphic Design, Minor In Computer Graphics

Certified Scrum Master