Scott Stephan Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, California, Us

Working with interesting people on interesting things- Hopefully we'll get to share with y'all in the future!

As Head of Product I get to interview our incredible users, develop and triage feature wishlists and work with our amazing team of beautiful brains to ship useful and engaging features for Tangle. In a more day to day capacity, this means defining releases, negotiating scope and maintaining the roadmap. The combination of design intuition, user research and leadership principles is a lovely and fitting summary of my work in games, immersive and interactive content over the last decade.

Helping some of the most beautiful brains on Earth bring a new vision of remote work to life! Find out more at http://tangle.app!In my first role at absurd:joy I helped scale the team from 8 to 25+ and introduced Agile production processes and software to create, maintain and develop mature pipelines across disciplines. This process took us from Post-It release triage all the way to actually writing stories, planning sprints and doing demos.

Austin, Tx, Us

Oversaw resourcing, scheduling, P&L and production for clients like Ford, Amazon, Showtime and US Foods on multi-sku projects with six-figure budgets.- Utilized a variety of production strategies- from Agile, to waterfall, to Scrum- to ship a variety of XR experiences for clients like Amazon, Ford, Netflix and others with consumer reach in the tens of millions and with cumulative budgets exceeding 3 million dollars- Responsible for project scoping & budgeting and per-project P&L- Built studio-wide production & project management processes in concert with other division leads that promise clarity, reliability and KPI-based success- Oversee a team of 5 Project Managers who themselves collectively oversee dozens of creative, engineering and outsource resources- Manage vendor vetting, SOW & Contract creation and other paperwork-based excitement for outsource partners around the globe.

Ca

Official Jett Scout + Clearer of ways.-Managed relationships with platform partners Epic Games Store & Sony Playstation-Managed product & metadata setup for PSN content pipeline & DevNet for multiple SKUs-Managed asset & content production schedules for a globally distributed team in 9 timezones, across a stable of interdisciplinary partner art & development teams-Wrote, amended and edited work contracts for partners in multiple countries

Lead 4 titles with budgets over 3 million dollars each through development and onto all major consumer-facing VR platforms (PSN, Steam, Oculus Store) as well as custom Location-Based Entertainment (LBE) platforms.Lived the life cycle of our games from drafting RFPs, through developer selection and vetting, into the crafting of SOWs and all the way through production and publishing.Assessed weekly builds and worked with studio stakeholders and playtest data to develop key feedback for our developers.

Provided executive overview for the slate of FoxNext VR projects. In practice this means staying in close contact with our 2nd party development teams to track the timeline of current productions, identify concerns and liase with the film studio and stakeholders as necessary.Towards the end of a product's life cycle I also managed publishing on PSN, Steam, Oculus Store and other distribution mechanisms.

Venice, Ca, Us

Project ResponsibilitiesGame Designer (January 2015 - July 2015)Technical Design Lead (July 2015 - July 2016)Project Lead (July 2016 - May 2017)On The Encounter, my title was Game Designer, a kind of catch-call on a small team. In practice this meant that my duties largely revolved around integrating assets into Unity, working with non-technical staff (Audio etc.) to develop tools to meet their needs and actually laying out and managing the event and interactions in the actual experience. For Season One I began as the Technical Design Lead working alongside the Art Lead (Gee Yeong) to assemble and hire the team, concept and pitch new content and then lead execution of that content. In practice this meant retaining my hands-on duties from The Encounter, but also learning how to manage and delegate task work as well and working alongside our Lead Producer (Max Geiger) to develop and maintain the product vision.After Season One shipped I became Project Lead, maintaining the project and focusing on ports and builds for new revenue streams (LBE, new platforms etc.). This continued into mid-2017 with the development of a new team focused on new product prototypes and features.

Lead Producer for the Kickstarter success, Aegis Defenders. Produced the Kickstarter that raised almost $145,000. Handled daily finance and business development as well as community management and project scheduling.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

MFA Candiate in USC's Interactive Media & Games Division. During my time at USC, I also worked with the School of Cinematic Arts Public Relation's office producing the bi-annual Demo Day event, the premiere industry showcase for student talent.

Created content for a Samsung Gear VR launch title and the lead Valve VIVE VR demo using tools developed in-house. Pitched level concepts and worked with engineering and art staff to bring those concepts to completion. under deadline.

Work around Web Development, Physical Computing and Interaction & Experience Design, all tied to an ambient informational system. 3D environmental and interaction design for a physical space prototype in Unity & Oculus Rift.

Independent design consulting on an unannounced project.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Managed the production of NSF and Gates Foundation-funded educational game projects, as well as their showing at both public and industry events. Created the core design & learning goals for the GeoMoto project and contributed to incentive and environmental design for AERO.

I was in charge of teaching English classes to students between the ages of 4-12, roughly 40+ hours a week. Duties included lesson planning, lesson creation, discipline etc. Hard work, but after facing down 30 pre-literate toddlers who don't speak a word of English I'm basically ready for anything.

New York, Ny, Us

Coordinated traditional marketing efforts via Social Media networks (Facebook, Twitter). Managed website codebase (Magento, Wordpress) and wrote custom middleware (PHP/MySQL) to interface between the website and warehouse.Additionally, manged the production and staffing of promotional events both public and industry-facing.

Master Of Fine Arts (Mfa), Interactive Media

Ba, English/Philosophy