Matt Johnston Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Fearless Provisions is a boutique consulting agency providing clients with the tools to ignite the creative process, develop a language for innovation, and make your transformative dreams come true. As Principal Creative Director, Matt is a hybrid of creative director, client liaison, futurist, strategist, and content builder.· Always evolving a proprietary creative process used successfully to guide organizations to their next big innovation push.· Employing a collaborative rapid-prototyping process that efficiently gets teams to build and experience their best ideas.· Operating an in-house, full-service experiential prototyping and media production studio.

Redmond, Wa

Managed and mentored a 13-person team of audio professionals distributed across 6 product teams. Charged with providing customer and developer advocacy through creative envisioning to help inform decisions being made on the platform and hardware teams. Held overarching responsibility for platform and product feature roadmap, incubation and prototyping of new and existing feature ideas, and long-term platform strategy. Working across the organization to ensure collective success, while evangelizing the accomplishments of individuals and teams.• On the Hololens launch team, insured that multiple critical audio features would be supported by the platform, including spatial audio which had been recently dropped from the product. Once the value was demonstrated, spatial audio ended up as the second marketing bullet in the announce keynote. • Coordinated and aligned individual product team initiatives to make the best use of audio platform features and provided follow-through with shared solutions and resources to light up those features in each experience.• Based on success with Hololens, team was directed to incubate new features across the entire Windows ecosystem.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Served as product owner expanding Popcap’s successful PC business to emerging and existing platforms and ecosystems. Charged with full accountability for all creative and product decisions, budget management, schedule, communication, team advocacy, and business alignment. Managed and directed development through external test and development teams and led teams through certification and launch on external platforms.· Led teams to deliver over 15 products to market including flagship franchises Bejeweled, Peggle, and Plants Vs. Zombies.· Created and launched 4th & Battery, PopCap's experimental imprint label, IP incubation, and organizational development program, that has been acknowledged as groundbreaking and emulated across the industry.· Led the charge on the company's innovative foray into smartphone development and cross-platform play between mobile devices and browsers, including delivering Bejeweled 2 for the launch of the Apple app store.

Owned the design, documentation, and implementation of all audio systems and content in internally and externally developed game titles, consumer products and hardware devices.· Designed and built interactive systems in flagship PC gaming products that laid the foundation for Microsoft’s current blockbuster Xbox gaming business.· Established industry precedent for elevating caliber of game themes and soundtracks, securing early deals with high-profile marquee artists such as Danny Elfman, Michael Franti, and Junkie XL.