Steve A. Sims Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Stanford, Ca, Us

Stanford Media X is Industry affiliate program of Stanford’s H-STAR Institute. Media X helps its members explore how the thoughtful use of technology can impact a range of fields, from entertainment to learning to commerce. Together, Media X and its partners are researching innovative ways for people to collaborate, communicate, and interact with the information, products, and industries of tomorrow. We explore the use of information technology to improve the human experience.

Walldorf, Bw, De

Dublin, Ca, Us

Dublin, Ca, Us

Dublin, California, Us

Badgeville is the #1 Digital Motivation company with 100s of leading Enterprise customers. Badgeville adds social recognition, loyalty and game layers to enterprise applications, online communities and collaboration solutions to drive member participation and provide key customer or employee engagement insightsBadgeville’s Digital Motivation/Recognition solutions optimize user engagement with key enterprise systems such as online communities, CRM, HR management, learning education management and call center customer support operationsThe Badgeville Platform is an enterprise-grade platform that manages millions of user actions across the enterprise with high performance, scalability and reliability.The Badgeville Platform is used strategically to measure, drive and reward behaviors by customers and employees.At Badgeville I am responsible for Design and additional service functions including:*Thought Leadership/Design Quality*Enablement Services*Customer/Program Success*Analytics*Sales and Product Strategy SupportPlease feel free to connect with me above if you would like to see any case studies, use cases, examples or would otherwise like to enhance your level of education and understanding of gamification.

Dublin, California, Us

As the Vice President of Solutions and Design I was responsible for:Thought Leadership/Design QualitySolution Architecture/Sales SupportCustomer/Program Sucess

Dublin, California, Us

Design and Thought/LeadershipEnablement ServicesQASupport

Managed an organization that:Defined and maintained the extended roadmap for all productsProvided service programming for each game under management including promotions, events and activities including external web and SNS channelsEstablished and drove schedule/cadence to synchronize engineering, PM, GM, production and marketing teams for content delivery, events, and promotions with the goals of increasing retention, re-engagement and monetization.Established and Managed KPI’s for each game, under management with the objective of growing key metrics such as revenue, New User conversion rate, concurrent users, ARPPU, Customer LTVDeveloped rolling forecast for game revenue & budget needed for in game eventsManaged the relationships with development partnersProvided QA support for both launch and live operations

Responsible for virtual world business in North/South America and EMEA RegionsResponsibilities included:Design, delivery, operation and programming of mobile virtual world services, Product Roadmap End to end design, production, deployment and operation of first 3D virtual world product on iPhone and JAVA platforms (Motropolis – Top 50 application In social networking category on Apple Store) Creation, sell in and delivery of first 3D JAVA virtual world product at a tier one operator in EMEA (TIM Tribu) Formation and execution of marketing strategy for all regions virtual world products

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Managed and operated enthusiast graphics market segment for the award winning GeForce Series of 3D Graphics card products. Multiple product lines under management including: GeForce 7800 Series, GeForce 6800 Series, GeForce 5900 Series, GeForce Titanium (Ti) Series, and upcoming NVIDIA graphics chips in development.Led all aspects of product line including: market requirements, product definition, TAM analysis, forecasting, pricing, positioning, PR representation, sales support, risk start plans, end of life planning, as well as strategic and tactical decisions for the product line.Total revenue of line under management approximately $250 MM dollars.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Delivered two of three games in the first EA.Com sports subscription offering (NASCAR Web Racing and Knockout Kings Web Boxing). Delivered 5 sports products for the launch of the #1 multiplayer gaming site on the Internet Directed franchises in development including NHL, FIFA, trivia/game shows

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Managed $5 million budget and staff for 3 departments. Product mix included fantasy, strategy and action sports. Developed first online fantasy sports product, the EA Sports Edge Fantasy Football Analyzer (August 1998). Controlled production of Internet channel services that enabled online play of Madden NFL Football and other related NFL Products.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Produced the #1 selling sports video game franchise in North America (John Madden Football) across all platforms. Managed all aspects of production. Recipient of sports game of the year. Turned around troubled franchise (1996). Grew revenue by over 20% annually, resulting in a 3-year total of $250 million with depart of 20+ people and $3 million budget. Created and maintained relationships with NFL, NFLPA, celebrities (John Madden, James Brown, Pat Summerall etc.), agents (IMG) and product vendors.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Software project lead for NHL on 3DO and Sony Playstation as well as John Madden Football on the 3DO platform.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

Software lead on CD-I title Gardening by Choice.

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