Richard Mitchell Email & Phone Number

Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Gathers requirements for new and updated business processes. Determines how business requirements can be served by currently available technology platforms or, if needed, by acquiring new platforms where necessary.Assess and identify areas for business process improvement and transformation and strategize changes necessary to achieve program goals. Seeks ways to apply technology to program needs, vision, and processes. Produce and maintain various business architecture elements, including use cases, process diagrams and scenarios, value streams, process maps, functional requirements, and return on investment/project economics.Facilitates agreement on organizational work models and processes to meet business requirements.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Working on behalf of the George Kaiser Family Foundation to survey the coding educationlandscape in Tulsa, with the end goal of improving and empowering Tulsa's workforce to fill thedemanding roles of our city's growing tech industry. Striving to create an active and successfulsoftware development community in Tulsa. Partnering with local groups to create and organizetech industry events and workshops, and to further STEM education efforts in Tulsa.Organizing the XPO Game Festival, Tulsa's annual convention celebrating video and tabletop games, and giving regional game developers a chance to showcase their talents on a national stage. In charge of organizing all content, including arrangements for speakers, independent developers from around the world and university outreach.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Responsible for securing content for XPO, Tulsa's first-of-its-kind video game convention and festival. Helped organize Blue Whale Comedy Festival. Organized all content and secured sponsors for the Virtual Reality room at the 2016 Tulsa Overground Film and Music Festival.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Responsible for overseeing the overall content of XPO, an exciting new consumer technology convention in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Coordinates the booking of sponsors, exhibitors, panelists, and speakers. Curates overall content of XPO, including special events, on-site activities and panel discussions.Representative and evangelist for consumer tech culture in Tulsa!

Tulsa, Ok

Managed contracting, creation and editing of all critical content for Joystiq, a technology and video game enthusiast website with a circulation of 5 million readers per month. Maintained ongoing relationships with games industry professionals, including public relations experts, studio executives and developers, as well as journalistic colleagues. Contracted and assigned feature articles to freelance writers. Maintained editorial calendar of release dates and assigned projects to staff. Key member of small management team, responsible for editorial oversight of daily content. Provided live trade show coverage, including on-camera interviews and on-location feature videos.

In charge or coordinating all production needs for the Joystiq Show, a regular podcast featuring guests from leaders in the video game industry. In addition to hosting the program, responsible for securing guests, arranging interviews, and curating discussion topics.

Managed small staff of writers on an enthusiast subdomain of Joystiq.com. Oversaw all daily operations, including schedule of news and feature content, video and audio production and site promotion. Produced regular news, feature and original content. Coordinated trade show coverage, meetings with video games industry professionals and delegated responsibilities to team members.