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Santa Barbara, California, United States

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Responsibilities: • Led the development and design of a e-commerce platform for user generated digital files, with a strong focus on providing independent artists with an easy and streamlined sales platform that eliminates roadblocks present in traditional e-commerce platforms. • Integrated AI technology to enable our product submission system to automate creation of product descriptions and other listing information. This simplified the submission process for artists and eliminating the need for them to write marketing content. • Designed an advanced, fully automated partnership program for affiliates and influencers that utilized AI technology to generate custom social media posts optimized for each partner, product, and social platform, resulting in increased reach and reduced content blocking. • Implemented a secure payment processing solution that enabled instant divisions of purchases among artists, affiliates, and service providers while ensuring compliance with industry regulations and secure handling of customer data. • Generated significant pre-launch community engagement, through a combination of targeted online community outreach and highly effective social media campaigns.

Provided strong leadership, direction, and vision to the product and development teams to ensure the successful completion of projects.• Ideated, designed and launched large-scale SaaS projects, ranging from custom CRM solutions to medical platforms, from the ground up for clients.• Collaborated closely with clients to gain an in-depth understanding of their objectives and business needs, and translated their requirements into detailed design documents and wireframes utilizing Jira, Confluence, Figma, and Lucid Chart.• Recruited and directly managed remote, cross-functional teams of product and development professionals, and sourced additional personnel as needed to support specific projects.• Implemented an agile development process to improve project design, delivery and effectiveness, leading to consistent, timely and cost-effective completion of project milestones.

• Successfully grew Victorious Gaming from a hobby project to an esports community leader within its first two years of operations, culminating in an acquisition by XFire in January 2015.• Continued to play a key role in the continued operations and growth of Victorious Gaming post-acquisition, working with the XFire team to drive further success.• Successfully led the design and development of Victorious Gaming’s SaaS Esports tournament platform, resulting in its rapid expansion, serving over 500,000 registered users and maintaining a monthly active user base of 40,000 within two years of launch.• Implemented innovative systems to improve the overall user experience including: skill balancing, automated team creation, payment fraud mitigation, anti-cheat tools, automatic voice communication, and volunteer management system. The volunteer system effectively managed over 2,000 high school and college age volunteers.• Successfully established Victorious Gaming’s monetization system with free user to paid user conversion rate of 7.5% and a monthly Average Revenue Per Paying User(ARPPU) of $18.75.

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

• Served as Interim President at XFire following the acquisition of Victorious Gaming in January 2015, leading efforts to reboot the company and integrate both XFire and Victorious Gaming's tournament platforms.• Within six months of acquisition, successfully sourced, interviewed, and hired 25 new roles at XFire, including from CEO and other executive positions, as well as rebuilding the operations and development teams to facilitate the smooth integration of the companies.• Transitioned to the role of Chief Creative Officer after successfully sourcing a new CEO and led the product and development teams for XFire's desktop and SaaS products, including its Esports tournament platform.• Within 12 months of the acquisition, launched a fully redesigned tournament platform that served XFire's 36 million registered users.• Organized and produced thousands of Esports tournaments in partnership with major gaming companies, such as Riot Games and Blizzard Entertainment, and expertly managed the transition of XFire's legacy products, while maintaining high levels of satisfaction and engagement among users.• Utilized strong leadership skills to successfully drive the strategic direction and vision of the development and product teams to ensure the completion of projects on time, budget and to the satisfaction of the stakeholders.

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Served as Interim President for XFire while sourcing a new CEO and leadership team. Integrated the Victorious Gaming team into the company and kicked off the development of XFire's tournament platform.

Sunnyvale, California, Us

• Created an influencer marketing campaign that increased sales by 2.5X flagship publishing partners• Advised and assisted with business development and product design

This contract role focused on reorganizing the company and re-launching its first title Bust-N-Rush. Product: * Redeveloped and re-launched the studio's first title Bust-N-Rush* Worked with the team to successfully re-balance the game and added a much-needed health system* Collaborated with the producer and lead designer to add multiplayer, challenge a friend via asynchronous multiplayer, a dynamic quest system, global/personal leaderboards, in-game purchasing of DLC and custom secure server-based digital distribution system to reduce piracy* Increased reviews from an average of 3/10 to 8/10* Reorganized the company to add needed skills to the development teamBusiness Development* Negotiated publishing agreements with Electronic Arts and Steam.* Negotiated promotional agreements with Dell/Alienware / Gamefly / Visa, significantly increasing awareness of the game and it's sales.

Culver City, Ca, Us

I was contracted by Snail Games to build and launch their US business.• Employee #1 in the US, managed the buildout of the physical office while recruiting a team of 12 to support the launch of Heroes of Gaia in month two of the contract. • Directly managed a team of 28 between the US and China offices• Developed a new business model that increased revenue by 15% and significantly reduced overhead.• Directly managed the launch of the US versions for Heroes of Gaia and Ministry of War, localizing the economy, payments, customer success systems, and product teams.• Leveraged 3rd party partners to increase the audience for Heroes of Gaia to over 1M MAU and $1.5M/Mo in MTX. Heroes of Gaia became the highest-grossing game on Gamestop's Kongregate platform in 2010.• Built and managed the team for Ministry of War, named #1 Mobile Strategy Game 2011. MTX sales grew to over $2M/Mo.

Raised $5M to build the first picture and video sharing service from mobile phones to social media platforms including Facebook and Myspace. Designed the service from the ground up and managed our 12 person development team. Grew the audience to 500,000 registered users with bleeding-edge customer acquisition tools that made it easy for our customers to attract their friends and family to the platform.

Los Angeles, Us

Created the design for ModCenter for IGN (IGN.com). Mod Center was focused on providing development tools and a publishing pipeline for mod development teams. The SaaS platform made it significantly easier for teams to create and publish custom content for the games they loved. The platform included volunteer management, workflow approval, asset management, and a pipeline to publish their mod on IGN. It also connected with multiple properties on IGN, including Fileplanet and Vault Network to promote the mod content across the network.

Journalism And Computer Science

High School, Journalism, Photography, Computer Science