• Helped streamline the product development process by providing insights around best practices in running a successful Scrum team.• Launched 6 releases that increased mobile revenue by over 65% in just 5 months.• During that same time, DAUs increased dramatically as well, in large-part driven by a significant increase in player retention.• Lead the prioritization & design of an announcement system, which gave us the ability to dynamically program messaging around new features &… Show more • Helped streamline the product development process by providing insights around best practices in running a successful Scrum team.• Launched 6 releases that increased mobile revenue by over 65% in just 5 months.• During that same time, DAUs increased dramatically as well, in large-part driven by a significant increase in player retention.• Lead the prioritization & design of an announcement system, which gave us the ability to dynamically program messaging around new features & sales to our players – drove an increase in engagement of promoted features by over 80%.• Helped drive the design of a new cohort testing system, which gave us the ability to release new features to a subset of specifically-targeted players. Show less

• Lead a team of 15 artists, developers and QA engineers to design & build games for both GSN Casino and the WorldWinner skill games business.• Under my guidance the team released 12 games to the platforms in 16 months, including 6 casino games and 6 skill games – four of which were designed completely from the ground up.• Lead the prioritization & design of a new casino game container that would host all currency transactions without requiring players to leave their game – drove a… Show more • Lead a team of 15 artists, developers and QA engineers to design & build games for both GSN Casino and the WorldWinner skill games business.• Under my guidance the team released 12 games to the platforms in 16 months, including 6 casino games and 6 skill games – four of which were designed completely from the ground up.• Lead the prioritization & design of a new casino game container that would host all currency transactions without requiring players to leave their game – drove a sustained 25% lift in incremental casino revenue.• Lead the design of a modified transaction system that would allow players to purchase power ups directly for cash while playing their favorite games – this was and continues to be another huge contributor to casino revenue.• Became a Certified Product Owner through an intensive training course. Show less

• With a small team of only 6 members, served in a unique hybrid role of Product Designer, Project Manager and QA Engineer.• Designed a highly-successful Flash version of Deal Or No Deal.• Helped build on the popularity of the rewards program Oodles.• Launched GSN’s first-ever Facebook game Dumbville, which quickly grew to hundreds of thousands of players.• Served as lead game designer for Wheel Of Fortune Facebook – one of the most successful game show adaptations the platform… Show more • With a small team of only 6 members, served in a unique hybrid role of Product Designer, Project Manager and QA Engineer.• Designed a highly-successful Flash version of Deal Or No Deal.• Helped build on the popularity of the rewards program Oodles.• Launched GSN’s first-ever Facebook game Dumbville, which quickly grew to hundreds of thousands of players.• Served as lead game designer for Wheel Of Fortune Facebook – one of the most successful game show adaptations the platform had ever seen – hitting well over 2.5 million fans.• Served as lead game designer for Jeopardy! Facebook, producing a unique “quick-play” version of the classic game show.• Served as lead game designer for X Games TGMotocross – one of GSN’s most aspirational projects to date – an officially-licensed ESPN game featuring a fully-customizable avatar system, trophy support and functional garage – currently unreleased. Show less

• Principle tester for all games released on the WorldWinner skill game platform.• Wrote & completed front-to-back test plans; many of which are still used today.• Learned the complexities of a proprietary matchmaking system and became a key reference for how tournament seeding & ranking works.• Dug deeply into the back-end infrastructure to learn how the business operates. • Technical skills learned here became a main driver of later success in digital product development.•… Show more • Principle tester for all games released on the WorldWinner skill game platform.• Wrote & completed front-to-back test plans; many of which are still used today.• Learned the complexities of a proprietary matchmaking system and became a key reference for how tournament seeding & ranking works.• Dug deeply into the back-end infrastructure to learn how the business operates. • Technical skills learned here became a main driver of later success in digital product development.• With a strong focus on product design, quickly shifted into a lead game designer role on an-officially licensed Hasbro title – Monopoly Downtown – which was a unique, city-building play on the brand. Show less

• Set up & managed accounts for creditors seeking financial retribution for defaulted loans.• Helped streamline office operations by implementing new software & hardware solutions that complemented the somewhat antiquated judicial system.• Increased office productivity & efficiency tremendously in just 16 months; nearly doubling the amount of claims filed in a single day.