Mike Richardson Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Capgemini Principle Consultant | Head of Platform Engineering | DigitalUNILEVER 4yrs - Establish DevOps practice. Design and building DevOps capabilities, Digital Trasformation people processes and technology to deliver PRM, BigData Insights and Consumer Platforms, https://twitter.com/capgeminiconsul/status/677142494497382401

Austin, Texas Area

Brightlocker - Crowd Publishing Platform for Gameswww.brightlocker.com : https://angel.co/brightlocker-inc.http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/18/brightlocker-makes-a-game-out-of-making-games/

Malta

Devise and Teach – MSc Digital Games: Business Model Generation and Cloud Computing Modules

Malta

Responsible for all studio wide technology. pipelines and processes, recruitment and execution across development, production, operations, QA, IT & CS.

Galway, Ireland

StarWars the Old Republic 1 million subscribers within three days of its launch, making it the world's "fastest-growing MMO ever. Dec 2012Founder member of Bioware Ireland, Tasked with establishing the European datacenter, and 24/7/365 global operations including the building of a world class customer support center for the critically acclaimed MMO, Starwars the Old Republic. • Recruit and lead the following EU teams IT, NOC, Platform,DB, Network, and Datacenter.• Interface with Development, Production, Legal, PCI, in identifying needs and subsequent delivery of Citrix virtualization roll out.• Responsible for Global Contact Center Telephony solution design strategy and delivery, resulting in the delivery of cloud based solution handling over 6 million mins in 14 days and delivering significantly reduced costs compared to traditional solutions.• World class Contact center build out of 400 seat facility in Galway with a further 1,200 in third party offshore capacity.• EU Datacenter sourcing, commercial negotiation, build out and management.• Development and project management of vendor service integration and tools technology.

Frankfurt Am Main Area, Germany

• Oversee the design, implementation, and deployment of online game technology, Projects: Crysis2 PC & Console. and GFACE.com Social Network• Build online development, operations and service teams • Strategy, Planning, & Budget• Interface with all studios and product teams, production, QA, CS, marketing• First party relations with Sony, Microsoft

London

Online Strategy and RoadmapSolutions Architect - Successful Migration from CD to PaaS & Cloud (achieving over 5m subscribers)Producer Mobile GamesLittle Bridge is a fun virtual world for learning English where kids of all ages can play games and join a safe, moderated global community of young learners of English.

EA Ecommerce Integration Director, • Development and Deployment of EA’s multi channel online digital services platform, supporting internet, mobile, free to play, MMO and social networking.• Management of development resources in house and offshore • Ecommerce solutions integration • Platform and services framework design• Infrastructure and Systems Architect EA Technical Director EA Mobile • Develop AAA Mobile games, Including FIFA, Spore, Need for Speed and The Sims • Responsible for all technology/architecture/process choices • European Mobile D2C Ecommerce solutions • Supervise staffing, technology, tools choices, risks evaluation, dependencies, ensure best quality is achieved• Ensure code quality , code reviews• Drives staff capabilities & performance, training , recruiting.• Problem solving identifying issues and promoting solutions and optimization. EA Systems Architect EA MobileFounder member of new business unit EA Mobile,• Design platform and services roadmap • Ensure consistent production standards and guidelines • Provision of the game servers and infrastructure services EA European Network And Systems Manager, • Responsible for EMEA infrastructure and services • SOX Compliance regulatory controls and process• Ensure infrastructure scalability • Recruit, support, and retain a team of technically superior professionals from an expansive range of disciplinesEuropean EA.com Operations & Engineering Manager, Online gaming development and infrastructure servicesDatacenter build outs MMO Deployment in EU.EA.com Online game development.EA Online Developer• Design and implementation of award winning Extranet.• Design and delivery of Multi-lingual CRM system• Delivery and operation of an e-commerce solution Strong knowledge in several areas ( Multiplayer, Production, Tools, UI , Scripting , Optimisation)