Martin Wischhusen Email & Phone Number

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Member of the CIO Exec Leadership team, I lead a team that is focused on providing technology solutions to EA's game teams across the globe that enable game development at EA. I am also responsible for EA’s Enterprise Cloud Engineering and corporate infrastructure including EA's Data Centers, Global Network (WAN, LAN and WiFi), Compute/Servers, Storage, Database and Monitoring and Analytics Services.Being in the gaming industry and working at EA at this time is a very exciting place to be when you are passionate about technology and how to apply it to solve big business challenges. With the advent of next Generation Gaming platforms, 4K HDR quality, game streaming and leverage of the Cloud and 5G/Edge Computing, there's an ongoing explosion in the size and scale of content created in the today's games and those of the future. There are big challenges around how you manage all that content in a globally distributed development organization and how you efficiently deliver terabytes of content each day across the EA world.To help solve this, my team has created and engineered some innovative solutions. We are building the industry's first fully integrated, cloud-powered, game creation platform for use by EA's AAA/HD and Mobile Studios across the globe. It's enabling highly effective distributed development across EA's 7,000+ global community of game creators and also strategic development partners. It's also enabling new patterns of game development supporting hybrid studio/home working.We are executing a transformative Cloud-First Strategy. This includes consolidating data centers and transforming studio/site infrastructure and game dev workflows that are optimized to operate in the cloud. We've implemented an enterprise cloud portal that enables provisioning of PaaS and IaaS services across hybrid on-premise and public clouds to power game dev applications.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Reporting to EA's CIO and leading an IT team at EA focused on providing innovative IT solutions and services to EA's game teams to enhance the game development process. Includes responsibility for IT application services and new capability delivery for EA's game teams' globally. Also includes responsibility for global infrastructure supporting EA's game development processes.Innovative services rolled out include a self-service private cloud to provide on-demand infrastructure, compute and storage to EA's game teams. This solution is helping to transform the development workflow by providing game teams the ability to automate provisioning through the cloud, to script the spin up and tear down of machines to support automated smoke testing and build machine creation.Delivered an enhanced and intelligent Game Content Delivery Network to enable distributed development and collaboration across EA's global development locations, and new innovative Mobile development and testing solutions.Transformed IT team and operations to focus on "IT as a Service", providing on demand, pay for use IT services for EA's game development studios.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Responsible for IT service delivery and business relationship management at key EA studio locations globally. Established key service level agreements and KPI's and drove service improvement plans across IT services provided to EA's studios. Managed a team of service managers that were focused on delivering IT services and managing business engagement at each major EA studio location. Included both application and infrastructure services provided by IT to EA's Game Studios.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Formulated organizational transformation strategy and lead overall program to establish a new global technology IT organization supporting EA's worldwide studios.

Boston, Ma, Us

Toposware is the lead developer of Topos, the first Zero Knowledge Ecosystem that enables fully trustless and secure interactions between blockchains and serves as the springboard for the global adoption of Web3.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Bicycle is an early stage technology start up developing a digital operations platform that is optimized for digital businesses that want to manage their growth through a closed loop platform providing real time insights and actions that drive digital revenue, engagement and growth.

Bala Cynwyd, Pa, Us

Advisor to Osage Venture Partners and Osage University Partners, and member of the Osage Tech Advisory Council. Osage is a VC firm that focuses on business-to-business software, data, and technology enabled services companies in the Eastern US.

New York, Ny, Us

Member of the Board of Aston University in America’s Foundation, which is a US non-profit organized to promote Aston University among its alumni network across North America and to promote fund raising from alumni for the benefit of the University and its students.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Responsibility for the continuing development of BuildingSearch.com's IT and Internet infrastructure, SaaS applications, and IT vendor relationships and offshore sourcing strategies.

IT Consulting services provided in the areas of IT program management, outsourcing, IT org and delivery model transformation, Internet application and infrastructure engineering and solutions delivery. Provided consulting to a diverse set of companies including BuildingSearch.com and Electronic Arts.

Acsera Corporation, is an early-stage company, focused on enterprise J2EE application performance management. Provided advice on their business strategy, technology direction, product positioning and definition, product engineering and design.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

In addition to leading global IT eBusiness engineering and operations (see below), also had responsibility for the Middleware, Integration and Messaging IT Function at Agilent. During this time I also led a cross IT program to define an overall sourcing strategy and global IT delivery model. Defined overall structure and deployment plans, and coordinated across IT leadership team to implement plan. Established Agilent’s IT India center, recruited staff members, and executed detailed knowledge transfer. During this time also worked with CIO and the IT leadership staff to develop an overall IT strategic plan and led the deployment of cross IT planning tools and methodologies.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Developed and led the implementation of Agilent’s enterprise-wide Internet business strategy. Included formulation of business case and strategy, management of IT enterprise programs to develop and deploy new Internet technology, architecture and supporting infrastructure. Implemented business process change and benefits capture. Had direct responsibility for web architecture, application development and infrastructure engineering activities related to Agilent's global web site and test/release/delivery management functions. Strategic focus was to drive customer interaction to the Internet from traditional channels to reduce cost and improve customer satisfaction.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Developed and implemented eBusiness strategy and IT internet platform for $2.5bn Semiconductor Group. Defined their Internet strategy for direct customers, channel partners, contract manufacturers, portals and industry exchanges. Led a team that engineered and delivered the Group's internet platform and infrastructure. Included development of a channel partner portal that enabled a very low cost support model. Also implemented key B2B integration projects such as order status and content exchange with key channel partners.

Houston, Texas, Us

Involved in executive management of fiber optic semiconductor component division, reporting to General Manager. Developed and executed business plan, market strategy and industry alliances. Responsible for marketing communications strategy. Drove market development of fiber optics that were compliant with the Gigabit Ethernet standard and market introduction of a new wave of high performance fiber optic transceivers into leading Network Equipment manufacturers. Key strategy was to leverage HP's leadership around engineering and design work for the IEEE standards committee's to help influence the development of networking standards.The division had revenue growth from $400M to more than $1bn in 2 years through alignment to emerging high growth markets, through focused new product development and market introduction programs, and by selected strategic alliances and partnerships.

Houston, Texas, Us

Responsible for integrating BT&D (acquired company) into HP’s worldwide processes and operations. Consulted to executive management team. Integrated business planning, information technology systems, R&D and manufacturing processes and systems. Led change management. Noted by Harvard Business Review as one of the most successful technology acquisitions.

Houston, Texas, Us

Round Rock, Texas, Us