Ostrich wrangler

- Manage games, product, engineering, and marketing teams to grow and develop the Terminal Two games platform from 0 to over 500k users with 4 star review ratings on our games.- Responsible for overall company direction, product vision and roadmap, budget, hiring, and P&L- Manage nine global game development teams to build games from concept through release.- Manage the design, development, and release of 16 educational game titles, a web and desktop product platform for PC, Mac, Linux, and mobile releases - delivering on time and under budget- Manage the marketing team to develop brand, marketing strategy, distribution and sales channels- Hire, manage, and mentor designers, producers, project managers, and engineers. - Scale and improve team process and performance to meet critical milestones

Managing multiple global game studios and teams to make fun immersive games that inspire kids to learn programming. New and Exciting things are on the way!

- Manage design and product teams. Provide mentoring, training, and establishing new scrum process and standardization across teams. - Redesign and launched new Plays logo and brand- Work closely with marketing to provide design support on all campaigns and partnership needs- Lead design vision and foundation building for the new Plays desktop client, working with design and dev teams to establish styleguides and pattern libraries- Managed Plays mobile app, work with CEO and VPE to establish mobile product vision and roadmap.- Established user research and usability testing initiatives, interviews, diary studies - Grew our team, actively hiring, interviewing designers, PMs, and developers

- Lead Product Design for VRV mobile products for iOS and Android, phone and tablet. Successfully launched the VRV mobile apps as the solo designer on the mobile team.- Fast prototyping with pixate, framer.js, html/scss/jquery- Working in a small close knit agile team of product owners and developers. Through efficient design process, increase collaboration and output between product and engineering, helping to translate product vision to design and code.- Create research initiatives to understand our users and ensure we are building relevant features. Conduct initial user interviews, usability testing, surveys.

- Lead Designer for web and mobile products, from concepting / wireframing, to visual design / art direction / graphic creation, and UI implementation.- Designing fun game UI and a powerful IDE for young students to learn to code.- Prototyping and usability testing with kids.

Projects included: Bloomberg, JCPenny, United Airlines, Grubhub, Discovery Channel, Texas State Gov., Suncorp Bank, Transcanada- Help grow our North America design practice from 5 designers to 20+ by working on growth initiatives and interviewing candidates- Lead clients and delivery teams on product design, experience design, feature analysis & prioritization, UI development.- Worked with business and development teams to ensure that user needs, business goals, and development goals are negotiated and met throughout the development process.- Lead UX and BA workshops in project inceptions. Help clients determine product MVP.- Manage and lead feature analysis/design, iteration planning, user testing, and UI development cycles.-Coach/consult clients on agile software methodologies and design process.