Todd Meier, Pmp® Email & Phone Number

Pleasant Hill, Ca, Us

San Mateo , Ca, Us

• Accountable for Heroes Pipeline Development in all disciplines at 31st Union, collaborating with Gameplay Designers, Concept Artists, Character Artists, Producers, Engineers, System Design, and Lead Developers to deliver high-quality content.• Overseeing Character Art & Animation teams, balancing scope with capacity, tracking progress, and mitigating risks to ensure project success.• Implementing and improving processes, mentoring team members, and achieving milestones in a hybrid work environment.

London, London, Gb

• Managed sound design production, deployment, and quality control for Horizon Worlds, achieving an 80-90% task completion rate weekly.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to construct product roadmaps and deliver audio enhancements for Horizon Worlds creation tools.• Partnered with internal teams to align project strategy, monitor progress, and ensure timely delivery.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Achieved goals in positioning the product portfolio competitively by creating awareness in a fast-paced environment by adjusting strategies and priorities. Responsibilities include defining end-to-end experience to product definition and connecting customer sales and needs to internal apps. Defined early adopter and beta programs. Managed up to 10 staff, including Technical Publications, content creation, education teams, international vendors, and contractors.Released Products: macOS and Windows App: MAPP 3D System Design Tool and Compass Control Software; Mobile First Apps: Spacemap Go, Compass Go; Hardware: RMServer, GALAXY, and CAL. Developed partnerships with content platform providers.► Involved across the entire product life cycle, from strategic planning, product requirements, product roadmap, day to day development activities, new product introductions, and end-of-life activities.► Collaborated with marketing, communications, sales teams, and subject matter experts writing product and market requirements documents. ► Built strategic partnerships with dealers, and distributors to gain customer insights, investigate new technologies, and develop product launch strategies.► Able to work with diverse teams and interact, influence, collaborate, and negotiate effectively at all levels of management including executives, functional managers, and project managers.► Owned, groomed, and prioritized the backlog between new features, architectural improvements, and operational excellence.► Directed product planning and execution examining the business value of engineering decisions and how they affect the product life cycle.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Served in a multi-functional role as a full lifecycle Product Manager, working in collaboration with UX designers, full stack software, hardware, and firmware engineers involved in customer facing digital products to meet business goals using agile development best practices.Released Products: macOS and Windows Cloud App: MAPP System Design Tool, Hardware: Galileo GALAXY Digital Platform; Mobile First App: Compass Go; Hardware: Galileo Callisto 616, CAL and RMServer; macOS and Windows App: Compass Control Software; loudspeaker products across multiple platforms.► Lead and executed product vision with creativity, collaboration, and communication between all cross-functional product teams, anticipating potential blockers and disruptions.► Created, and managed product strategies, roadmaps, project plans and product specifications.► Owned, groomed, and prioritized the product backlog with the ability to interpret data & clearly articulate product requirements and acceptance criteria for each user story.► Challenged the UX team to create innovative and intuitive features by monitoring competitive products, evaluating insights from both qualitative and quantitative data analytics, user needs, subject matter experts and usability testing.► Facilitated regular collaborative meetings to influence value proposition, growth strategy, gather stakeholder feedback, collect/update product requirements, and build consensus.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Directed Project Managers as well as experts in designing sound reinforcement systems for bid purposes. Collaborated with clients to create effective, high quality systems for all types of sound reinforcement applications including sports venues, live theatre, cinema, showrooms and cruise ships. Managed Digital Products: MAPP System Design Tool and Compass Control Software.► Managed multiple staff members, including contractors.► Achieved scope definition, project scheduling, resource allocation, and project budgets. ► Increased client retention in all markets through exceptional customer service, superior product knowledge, and attention to detail.► Worked with Human Resources to hire contractors for additional support on special projects; reviewed staff performance annually.► Achieved on-site system alignment and analysis for awarded projects.► Created marketing and technical documentation for every project.► Trained customers on software to streamline all aspects of their business that resulted in increased client communication and provided sales leads for emerging markets.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Accountable for in-house design services team which created content to increase product visibility and sales.► Created 700+ virtual sound system designs for technical sales proposals used for bidding purposes.► Produced 200+ Technical illustrations for marketing and product documentation as well as on-site field analysis and system alignment as needed.► Participated in 50+ special projects included technical writing as well as leading 30+ education seminars for professionals and students how to use Meyer Sound MAPP XT software tools for system design and deployment.

Mfa, Sound Design - Theater, Film, & Television

Bfa, Drama