Samuel Hum Email & Phone Number

Culver City, California, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

Lead for Sales Team on World War Rising, roadmap planning & executing the launch of featured sales and live game events; working closely with cross-functional teams to design, launch and monetize new game features; working with Production on regular pivots. Leveraging game data to create specs for new features, systems and/or game events to drive monetization and various KPIs, running A/B tests, generating data reports.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

F2P mobile game monetization strategy associate manager.Designing and assisting with strategy as well as executing in-game sales based on data to drive content engagement and monetization● Designing and executing followed by evaluating experiments that tests various hypothesis on improving user engagement, retention, and monetization● Collaborating with Game Design and other cross-functional teams to ensure new content and game events are engaging and translate into impactful sales.

Mobile App Specialist on the Google Play team, working on-campus at Google's headquarters in Mountain View.Providing consultations on game and app design to developers big and small, resulting in increased app quality and app health. Working with developers to get their products featured on the Google Play Store.Google Play Early Access Program board member, helping to identify new high potential developers and titles to bring to market on the Android platform.Google Daydream VR game and user experience (UX) design consultations, resolving design flaws and improving user experiences for the VR market.

My role covered many aspects including creative direction, game design, monetization strategies, marketing strategies, setting up development milestones for teams, cross-discipline team management, analyzing metric data and user engagement/user base growth. Game art direction and hands-on artist on multitude of game projects.Here's some highlights:- "RoShamBoroo" - Android Game App - Dolby Challenge Silver Award 2014Assembled and lead a small team through a rapid development cycle from concept to launch, winning us our first award for a game. Lead game design, managed development milestones. Art direction and key artist, created art assets for the game and marketing needs.- "Frwee" - Freevi Flightdeck Game App - Freevi Winter Challenge Top 10 AwardAssembled and lead a small team to develop the game for this new hardware platform. Lead game design, managed game production schedule, primary artist handled visual design and created all art assets.- "Saddlefish" - Oculus VR Game - One of the earliest true-multiplayer VR experiences for the Oculus Rift platformGame debut at big SVVR (Silicon Valley Virtual Reality) event. Lead game design and primary artist.- "Magniibots" - PC gameDesigned as 4-player local multiplayer exhilarating game in good ol' "Brawl-fashion". Defined the visual style and created all art assets, lead game design, developed go-to-launch strategy, demoed the game at various Game Developer Meetups. Astounding feedback and even backers to sign on before an official Kickstarter launch!- "InnovoxVR" - Gear VR Game AppAn immersive Virtual Reality audio experience, get swept away by a beautiful home brewed soundtrack and mesmerizing visuals to pair along with. Demoed this at the first-ever SVVR Conference 2015.- "Protect your Nuts" - PC gameA 2-player network multiplayer game designed and built from scratch in 48 hours.- "Saplings" - Android Game AppFirst title that was entirely developed and launched with just a team of two.

Freelance contractor for game production and development, lead game design, wrote game design documents for clients, created and managed game art assets(3D/2D), assisted clients with developing marketing and monetization strategies for their game launches.

- Managed Flyff MMO, took on multiple roles, community management to running the game and managing sales, game analysis, creating sales strategies, game promotions, PR and marketing, creating art assets, QA, launch core game version updates, liason between developer teams and publishing team, etc.

- Resident artist on the Flyff Game Team, responsible for all artistic assets- Creating game newsletters that are sent out to over 4 million users- Designing bi-weekly game banners, posters, marketing ad campaign banners and materials; story-boarded, directed, filmed in-game footage for a promo game trailer- Designing game events, proposing new game systems and enhancing existing game features- Managing and creating monthly sales strategies for the game- Managing the online game community, providing QA and customer support for the game