Kat Metzen Email & Phone Number

Orange County, California Area

Heroes for Hope, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation ("Foundation"), was established during September of 2008 for philanthropic purposes. The Foundation makes qualifying distributions to organizations that are organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, literary or educational purposes .or the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, with an emphasis on organizations providing support to military personnel and their families in all branches of the armed services, as well as firemen, police, nurses, and teachers.

Orange County, California Area

Irvine, Ca

Managed vendor selection, product functional specification, profit/loss analysis, marketing planning, inventory management, cross-border tax compliance, enterprise integration planning, international partner management with development teams for recently launched Physical Goods E-Commerce initiative: http://gear.blizzard.com

Irvine, Ca

Manage:- Creation, manufacturing and distribution of all Blizzard OEM goods- Creation, manufacturing of over 20 new BlizzCon products per year- Operations of Blizzard Online Store physical product sales- Operations of BlizzCon physical pop-up store and Licensed Exhibitions- Marketing and promotions for all Blizzard licensed and OEM products

Greater Los Angeles Area - San Francisco

Responsible for managing and operating the San Francisco Optx franchise of the Championship Gaming Series. The CGS was a well-capitalized global media company which uniquely targeted the $37 billion global video gaming category with an innovative and compelling sports entertainment offering. Developed and financially backed by DIRECTV, BSkyB, and STAR, the CGS was the first worldwide professional video gaming league. Duties included managing ten contracted gamers, leading the team into televised competition, overseeing the operation of a stand-alone web site, seeking corporate partnerships, and executing marketing initiatives. The league was broadcasted to an audience of over 300 million people worldwide. The Optx, along with the Core, were consistently one of the top teams and brands every year.

Producer/Host for: - (Co-Host) DirecTV / BlizzCon 08, 09, 10, 11, 13 w/ Geoff Keighley - (Co-Host) Yahoo Games "Reset" w/ Raymond Padilla - (Producer/Host) Gametrailers/MTV Networks - (Producer/Host) AT&T Blue Room Gaming "A-List On Location", "Retro" Organized, wrote, produced national and international video shoots Writing for: - Gamepro, Yahoo! GamesDomain, Gamers.com, - Lycos Gamesville, GameDaily, Gametrailers.com, 1up.com.

Producer for Interactive Marketing Agency - Broadcast Interactive, Websites, Online Advertising, TV Broadcast, OutdoorWrigley (November 2005 - May 2006 | adidas May 2006 - current)Managed multi-discipline teams from concept through complete in-house productionLead Producer for:+ adidas - Basketball Vertical - http://www.adidasbasketball.com/ (Website, Online Advertising, TV Broadcast Media)+ adidas - MLS Mashups - http://www.mlsmashups.com/ (360 Campaign - Website, Print, Online Advertising, Outdoor Advertising, TV Broadcast Media, Live Events, CDR Media)+ Winterfresh - Coolbreath Power - http://www.coolbreathpower.com/ (Website, Online Advertising, Viral Marketing)+ Orbit - Good Clean Feeling - http://www.goodcleanfeeling.com (Website, Online Advertising)+ Hubba Bubba - Big League Chew - http://www.candystand.com/big-league-chew/index.do/ (Website, Online Advertising)+ Winterfresh - SnoCore Tour 2006 (Website, Online Advertising, Broadcast Video)

All-girl professional gaming team put together by Ubisoft to promote and compete in FPS titles on XBL. www.fragdolls.com

Currently AOL GamesManaged the production, development and launch of gamedaily.com and gamedaily.biz.ASP and SQL development for gamedaily.comManaged and produced all MARCOM materialsManaged and produced all trade show events including E3

Managed creative department for Interactive Advetising Agency with offices in Atlanta, Greenville SCManaged all agency projects and pitches from concept through production

Managed daily production schedules for commercial printing operationPrepared jobs from digital file for plate production