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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Bucharest, Sector 1, Ro

Pawtucket, Ri, Us

Managed a team working across multiple physical and digital projects on Hasbro entertaining software products brands and licensed partner brands Star Wars, Marvel, Transformers, and Furby.• Shipped mobile play experiences include: Furby Boom, Littlest Pet Shop Your World, Transformers Robots in Disguise, Furbacca, Furby Connect, Star Lily, Play-Doh Touch, Love to Learn Elmo, My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, Equestria Girls, Smart R2-D2, Star Wars Studio FX, Beyblade Burst, Hanazuki, Hero Vision Iron Man, Bee Vision Bumblebee, Nerf Laser Ops Pro, and Dropmix.• Initiated and drove collaboration with Legal and Cyber Security leaders to establish process and team to evaluate existing and future products for compliance with evolving global security and privacy guidelines.• Led vetting, selection, and ownership of relationships, inclusive of contract, budget, and schedule negotiations for external game development studios. Responsible as business owner for contract terms and financials. Managed multiple globally remote development teams and companies.• Created methodology to best align all development stages of our phygital (integrated physical and digital) products.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Provided strategic and tactical planning with Engineering, QA, Integration and Product Management directors and managers for the creation, ongoing development, and operation of our WBPlay platform covering e-commerce, identity, and social features for PC, consoles, and mobile games. • Served as the interim Director of Service Technology for a year, with responsibility for roadmap, team management, budget planning, and communication with executives. • Served as a founding member of online operations team which successfully established and implemented processes and best practices which enabled us to scale, plan and operate three massively multiplayer online games simultaneously. • Achieved goal of getting new players into games in less than 10 minutes from what previously took hours. Increased customer acquisition and decreased bandwidth costs. This project was one of three key pillars that the company was focused upon; reported status directly to CTO and CEO.• Implemented Scrum and Agile practices across multiple teams and games. Integrated new project management software across all game development teams for 300+ users.• Shipped free-to play conversions, multiple expansion packs and 20+ free game updates for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online.

Us

• Co-founded startup chasing our vision for easy to use, cloud based artificial intelligence systems to make it easy for the average person to create their own animated stories featuring 3d rendered characters and environments. • Directly responsible the creation of our commercialization plan. We were awarded Phase I and Phase II grants from the National Science Foundation which assesses equal weight on development of technology and commercialization. • We successfully developed our technology and were unable to bring others along in funding our vision for building our products and services.

Contributed to a large variety of projects within our stereoscopic ecosystem such as: motion simulators for use in arcades and government research/training, theaters, projection systems, glasses for home and professional use, motion rides, entertainment DVDs and CD-ROMs, games, and a suite of tools that greatly simplified the development of stereoscopic content.• Selected by CEO to lead and own the transfer of company from New York to Malaysia, living in Malaysia for a year. Five of ten key projects and technologies began active development in Malaysia with new team, in new facility within three months. Setup, recruited, trained, and managed a cross-functional fourteen-person team comprised of designers, artists, engineers, and scientists in less than six months, focused on the development of stereoscopic consumer electronics, services, software, content, and hardware products. Built and nurtured teams focused on software development, hardware development, and content development. • Awarded 2 patents for innovating stereoscopic still image, video, and editing systems. Championed the approach of building out a suite of tools to simplify creation of 3D content. Built a team to make 3D content using those tools.

Executive Mba

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Computer Science