Sean Kollenkark Email & Phone Number

Steamboat Springs, CO, US

United States

With Jackalope Productions, our clients don't just get solutions—we help make their products legendary. Drawing from our collective experience and commitment to excellence, we are dedicated to helping our clients navigate their objectives with creativity, innovation, and efficiency. Understanding the multifaceted nature of technology products, I.

Redmond, WA

• Led a team of Program Managers in defining the next generation experience for the Xbox One consoles. Within this role, my team delivered outstanding results by integrating research and consumer insights into product.
• Led 50+ design, research, development, and data professionals to shape and shepherd major user experience update to Xbox One gaming consoles from conception through execution and consumer release of Xbox One X.
• Led experience improvements through team to that contributed to all-time high customer sentiment and engagement for Xbox One
• Strong recruiting track record in building high-performance teams.
• Influenced the growth of Program Managers by focusing on skills development.
• Selected as spokesperson to represent Xbox at Gamescom 2017.

Redmond, WA

• I advanced to direct a team of 30+ designers, program managers, developers, and quality assurance team members resulting in highly used and rated features including the Xbox game bar and Xbox app for Windows 10 desktop.
• Inspired and drove team for highly-rated Xbox experience from planning phase, execution and engineering phase to release though additional monthly updates.
• Introduced engaging user experiences by partnering with senior leadership, designers, user researchers, engineers, and data analysts.
• Excelled in breaking down big ideas into realistic plans to be executed and delivered on time and at high quality.
• Awarded Out of Band Stock Award and additional stock award for exceptional performance leading feature teams.

Redmond, WA

• I orchestrated several key programs during Xbox One initial development, holiday release, and follow-up monthly releases. I led user interface framework strategy and incubation of natural language speech for voice.
• Key player in Xbox One incubation influencing initial experience and technical decisions during early phases of project development.
• Selected for release critical efforts, top problem resolution, and challenging projects due to strengths in project management, issue resolution, and leadership.

Redmond, WA

• I was an impact player in incubating high-end home entertainment products within the Entertainment and Devices group including the Media Center and new music and video experiences in Zune and Xbox Music & Video apps. I.
• Achieved 2010 Gold Star Award for exceptional cross-group collaboration.
• Delivered all planned features at high quality and on schedule with success in securing seven issued US patents for new products.

Redmond, WA

I introduced a broad range of user experiences for the developer and IT professional market including MSDN subscriptions, personalization, search services, and web services powering the Visual Studio client search experiences. I directed team in delivering common controls and publishing tools for website content managers. I managed Servers and Tools.

Redmond, WA

Developed user experience features for.NET 1.0 developer evangelism site GotDotNet and QuickStart developer samples. Drove improvements in UI framework, common controls, site availability, deployment & operations.

Bellevue, WA

My role was to integrate the company’s e-commerce stack into online retailer web sites. I wrote proposals and project plans that solved business/technical problems. In addition to building the company’s intranet, I planned and managed implementation of a secured developer support web site for internal and development partner use including API references.

Avoriaz, France

Once in a lifetime opportunity in a world class ski resort in the French Alps. I was hired as a consultant to build a new web presence for the resort’s Office of Tourism. Pleased with the new site, I was asked to take on a new project for the resort’s lift company. Web site feature between both projects included weather reports, snow reports, lift and snow.

Missoula, MT

One of the first ten employees for this Internet start-up that provided local information to over 30k cities in the United States in contrast to the competitors at the time (Sidewalk and City Search) who only focused on major metropolitan areas. Spearheaded the company’s co-branded capability that eventually became the primary integration mechanism with.

Missoula, MT

Responsible for assisting users with the back-end of the primary web server, researching web technologies and maintaining the centralized portion of the web site. I drove the first redesign that transformed the site from static to dynamic content. The second redesign won CASE homepage award for universities in northwest and western Canada.

Montana

One of two University of Montana candidates chosen to teach Internet classes throughout the state. We were given a van and 14 laptop computers and hit the road (25k miles) to introduce thousands of people to the Internet.