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Salt Lake City, UT, US

Austin, Texas, US

-Led a team of 400+ engineers, spearheading technical, cultural, organizational and process modernization efforts by leading large teams through a vision and strategy articulation and communication resulting in a cultural move from siloed teams to a common platform and JTBD approach to value delivery-Spearheaded back-end capability and micro front-end.

-Directed the establishment of a new data region at Eagle Mountain by leading a team of SiteOps managers and Engineers resulting in the first live traffic to Eagle Mountain Data Center on time-Led deployment and management of next gen GPU based ML infrastructure to support growing ML needs for Meta

Englewood, CO, US

• Led transition to DevOps resulting in reduction of lead time from over 45 days to less than 45 minutes, and an order of magnitude increase in releases
• Manage team of over 250 engineers, product managers and other professionals in back end, middleware, and client teams for product consumed by millions of subscribers daily
• Led product vision and impact mapping and goal process across entire business to align all development efforts
• Led migration of monolith to microservices for core back end functionality. Led design and deployment of Kubernetes clusters. Led architecture team to define REST and eventually Kafka based architecture for.
• Led big data transformation leading ETL efforts and standing up in house search and recommendation ML capabilities built with tensor flow and elastic search which resulted in over 600% improvement in recommendation and.
• Led team through a cultural and team transition overcoming significant mistrusting culture that was grinding development efforts to a halt. Built trust with Product, Ops, QA and Engineering by shifting left on.

Ciudad De Mexico, Ciudad De México, MX

• Established a scalable product driven development process, prioritization and roadmap that resulted in transparency and predictability
• Created product pillars that focused the team’s efforts on the most ROI positive features
• Presented product vision, pillars and a roadmap plan to internal teams and VCs, resulting in successful round B funding
• Re-organized team into cross functional and empowered teams to execute against new product plan in parallel
• Implemented a data transformation process to gather customer behavior data at the product level, where none existed previously, while ensuring compliance with PCI guidelines.
• Implemented a data driven product strategy, bringing deep data analysis to all product and business decisions utilizing ML models to reveal clusters of customer behavior resulting in data driven product features

Redwood City, CA, US

• Head of Product and Engineering
• Built world class mobile development team from 12 people to 45 bringing in top creative, design, technical, production, QA, community, and product management talent from around the industry.
• Led data first transformation of studio, leading to incredibly impactful multi-variate testing of entire game economy
• Directed Product Management and design efforts, creating a best in class user experience
• Release "Minions Paradise" for EA, the highest install velocity EA mobile game to date with over 35 MM installs in less than 3 months
• Through stringent product management processes, cluster analysis, funnel analysis, A/B testing, feature releases, performance and UX improvements increased D1 retention by 10 points and D7 retention by 12 points during.

Victoria, British Columbia, CA

• Head of Product and Engineering
• Head Product manager and business owner of Free to Play mobile game from pre-production through release for “War Commander: Rogue Assault”
• Created vision and product framework for #1 company priority game
• Managed 65 PMs, Artists, Engineers, Designers, and QA professionals
• Turned around team that was floundering without clear goals, processes, vision or direction
• Set up clear production processes, and began hitting milestones on time

San Francisco, California, US

• Head of Product and Engineering
• Business owner for top Facebook game:Hidden Chronicles
• Led a data first product initiative that utilized A/B testing to validate key hypothesis and reduced cycle time
• Managed world class engineering team
• Designed and implement production plan resulting in improvement from 39% on time releases to 89% on time releases
• GM of new mobile first studio, and new IP project in development

• Led efforts to create the HTML5 cross platform game engine Ginormous: www.ginorm.com
• Led fund raising efforts to support ongoing development of Ginormous HTML5 game engine
• Led 15 person team in the design, and execution of game projects for the social and mobile space
• Led business development and production efforts for over $3.5MM in client projects, and lead the development of over 15 client and internal game projects
• Designed and developed all new Facebook marketing application for crowd-sourcing of games and game ideas in Drupal: http://apps.facebook.com/republicoffun. This resulted in successfully social media outreach increasing.
• Designed and created innovative caregiving community site using Drupal: www.caregivervillage.com

Seattle, WA, US

• Led publishing efforts for Xbox 360, Wii, and Nintendo DS games, resulting in 7 published games
• Negotiated all new multi-year 7 figure licensing deal with Mattel Inc. for creation of new casual games
• Directed new business development efforts for licensing well-known IP from licensors
• Managed senior production team and day to day licensed game business for Real, resulting in 3rd party domestic and overseas outsourcing of 10 successful game titles based on Hasbro’s and Mattel’s licenses: Monopoly.
• Created production methodology based on Scrum to manage game development with extended licensee approval process. Resulted in on time and on budget development of Hasbro and Mattel games
• Managed business relationships for Casual Games group with Microsoft, Atari, Mattel, Nintendo, Sony, Apple and Hasbro

• Founded 12 person cartoon production company, and raised $350,000 in angel investment to fund production. Led team in design of cartoon concept, writing, casting of characters, animation and sound production and.
• Completed production of three half-hour direct to DVD episodes currently in stores
• Directed main character development, script writing, casting of characters, animation and sound production and post production process resulting in 3 direct to DVD episodes currently in stores
• Designed and deployed digital distribution and virtual workflow system for coordinating efforts of geographically diverse animation, sound and art team
• Completed the production of 2 episodes for the initial investment of $350,000, a unique accomplishment given the typical production budgets of most half-hour cartoons

Redmond, Washington, US

• Led the analysis of a market opportunity for a new business venture leveraging Microsoft gaming technology
• Employed a bottom up approach for market sizing thus providing key data for business plan
• Led the exploration and analysis of current market needs and product design features
• Designed license model based on marketing and product analysis

• Co-developed a go-to-market plan for entering the serious games market with NDL’s Gamebryo 3D graphics engine. Resulted in a successful showing at I/ITSEC 2003, an 830% increase in sales leads and a 400% increase in.
• Prepared and delivered executive-level presentations to both internal and external audiences.
• Co-developed technical marketing booklet for new Gamebryo push marketing strategy. Targeted at technical directors with video game firms, and creatively helped to succinctly address typical barriers to 3rd party.
• Designed an innovative license model specifically for game publishers. Model facilitated NDL entering a new market selling Gamebryo directly to game publishers.
• Lead marketing and business development initiatives for Gamebryo with game publishers. Successfully leveraged these initiatives to develop new, high-level relationships with Atari, Eidos, Sega, Activision, Konami.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

As Marketing Manager intern for IBM, I developed a methodology to help Marketing Managers deal with the unique challanges of emerging software technologies.

US

• Led 5-person 3D graphics software engineering team in order to successfully pass a stringent suite of software tests necessary to gain “Designed for Windows” logo.
• Proposed and helped establish remote software development center for California based company. Currently considered the most valuable remote operation for the company based on engineering output compared with four.
• Drove performance optimization of software design resulting in DirectX drivers that exceeded the customer’s performance criteria by 12% as measured by industry benchmarks. Led to a significant ongoing relationship.
• Spearheaded transition of drivers from DirectX 8 to DirectX 9.0.
• Submitted innovative software driver technique for a patent for handling of dynamic textures in a 3D graphics pipeline.

Mba, Venture Capital, Entreprenuership

Bs, Computer Science And Math

Diploma, High School