Susan Manley Email & Phone Number

Half Moon Bay, Ca

Partner in ChessLecture.com an internet based subscription service for chess enthusiasts.ChessLecture releases a new video by chess masters every weekday.Responsible for marketing the subscription service and expanding their product offering to DVD and EDVD for consumers and retailers.

San Francisco Bay Area

Consultant for electronic entertainment and productivity software in various capacities including business development, production, project management, design, focus testing, market research, product and viral marketing, recruitment, licensing, product placement, venture funding, technical documentation. Clients include: www.Ubisoft.com, www.GlobalVR.com, Mattel Interactive www.Nuvostudios.com, www.Stuntpuppy.com , www.Blam.com, www.EasyStreetgames.com, www.DisplayWear.com , www.MP4Mediaworks.com, www.EagleClawStudios.com, www.FunBadges.com, www.Velosel.com, www.SignatureDevices.com, www.Awakengames.comm, www.GraphitiEntertainment.com www.ChessMagnetSchool.com, www.DoubleThumbsInteractive.com, www.ChessLecture.com, www.Suscivinst.com, www.ScienceTools.com, www.OldeSkuul.com, KittyCode.com, Wizbanger, LinkSV.comAdviser for:www.RecordingEssentials.com,

Seattle, Wa

One of four founders, all industry veterans, bringing old style game design and development to modern technology.

Creative partner for Strategic and tactical marketing, branding, evangelist & online presence and sales for HipTrac, the first-in-class portable medical device that delivers hip traction to relieve pain and increase mobility for individuals with hip osteoarthritis (OA), impingement, labral tears and other hip joint related issues. Cleared for use by the FDA in 2013, HipTrac is designed for independent use, both in medical offices and at home. www.HipTrac.com I was responsible for getting HipTrac into the VA.

Sunnyvale, Ca

Number 3 to the team that created Expresso. I was the person that explained to the executive team, we were not just creating a product. We were creating a platform that could potentially house downloadable upgrades, multiple operating modes and be upgradable. This changed the company valuation exponentially. Integral in creating the original concept for the company, developing the technology path to convey the interactive fitness concept. Sourced and recruited the VP of business development and the outside company to create the demonstration of technology and managed that technologies vision and creation.Responsible for the project management and implementation of the vision of the original prototype of the concept, a twenty minute interactive experience that gained the company 70 million in seed funding.Recruited original art team for inhouse development.www.expresso.com

Burlingame, Ca

· Responsible for all aspects of the Action, Simulations and Sports game categories for a Windows 95 client for release to America On-line consumers. · Created business plan, SKU plan, budget, personnel plan, financial analysis, market segment analysis, competitive products analysis, sell sheets, test plans, contracts and schedules. · Managed the creation of marketing materials including promotional videos. · Sourced, contracted and managed Legal Council and a Technical Director for the department.· Managed all aspects of product development. · Created the Technical Design outline for product submission review procedure. · Spearheaded the creation of a business development kit “Why Publish with WorldPlay” which was distributed to potential developers at E3 and GDC.

San Mateo, Ca

· Grew my position to reporting directly to the VP of operations. · Key person for projections of product development release as EA went public· First Project Manager at Electronic Arts for internally developed projects.· Responsible for the coordination of development efforts for up to 10 projects simultaneous. · Held weekly meetings with complete development teams (Programmers, Artists, Designers, Audio, Marketing and Production personnel) both internal and external to determine the state of projects and gain consensus in project decision-making. · Responsibilities included financial and date projections and tracking of projects. Made recommendations to executive staff for resource planning and priority setting to facilitate multiple development efforts. · Responsible for highlighting key operations dates to development teams and providing accurate milestone projected dates for operations schedules.· Held Post Mortem meetings at project completion to get key feedback for improving performance and satisfaction to all team members. · Created training documents on time estimation, schedule creation, process documentation, project management, project management software.

Sunnyvale, Ca

· Responsible for design and creation of static and animated art in bit-mapped and tile graphics. Specialized in interface design, portraits, and special story telling scenes.· Responsible for estimating art tasks for products, making and maintaining art schedules, assignment of tasks and overseeing those tasks completion. · Designed spreadsheets to handle time data collection and entered the data. · Supervised five in-house and one contract artist. · Trained new team members to in-house tools and procedures. · Set up archival process to allow easier porting and reuse of graphics. · Art Director for teams working on projects setting style, reviewing delivery.

San Jose, Ca

Recreation leader at a children's park that specialized in activities for ages 2 to 14 years old. Initially started as a ride operator and was propelled into management. From there I ran the front office, reservation booking system. I was responsible for daily accounting and cash register accounting. Supervised 20 + employees, facilitating scheduling and breaks. I became the assistant puppeteer, creating marionettes and hand puppets from raw materials. I performed live shows for audiences of 200 + and for audio tape. Painted murals. Designed and created park signs. Worked on Christmas in the Park a multi-million dollar display in down town San Jose during off season for the park.

San Jose, Ca

Opened and operated a video and computer game store. Pioneered a membership "lending library" of video and computer games. Started a mail order / 800 number catalog business. Wrote advertisement for compute magazine. Managed creation of radio advertisement and advertisement for print. Hired and supervised 4 employees. Responsible for inventory, purchasing, sales goals and merchandising and sales training of staff..