Matthew Velardo Email & Phone Number

Pawtucket Rhode Island

• Produced nearly 40 high-performing games, generating millions in revenue as project lead.
• Collaborates with designers, marketing partners, brand writers and engineers to bring great products to market.
• Experienced with prototype creation, testing and product development.
• Builds strategic visions by finding whitespace opportunities and identifying market opportunities, conducts and interprets market and field research on current trends.
• Communicates with offices in Hong Kong and China to work with factory vendors to bring high quality products to market at the best possible prices.
• Expanded classic Hasbro brands, such as Monopoly, Clue, Game of Life, Battleship, Twister, Simon, Operation, Perfection, Guess Who?, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Pretty Pretty Princes, Sorry and Trouble.

Pawtucket, RI

Collaborated with engineers and marketers in brainstorms and input ideas to develop high priority games for 2018, 2019 and 2020 releases. Conducted research and analyzed current trends and used presentation skills to effectively communicate designs. Responsibilities included: sketching concepts for innovative new games, drawing, rendering final designs.

Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park New York

Created detailed illustrations of the Roosevelt-Vanderbilt NHS (ROVA) locations, created archeological renderings of garden areas for the ROVA sites.Designed the official ROVA Historical Association logos to be used on ROVA material.Led groups between 2-75 individuals at the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site on hour-long educational tours. Sought.

B.F.A., Toy Design, Industrial And Product Design

A.S., Visual Arts

Activities and Societies: Member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society.