LEVEL UP YOUR STUDIO
>20+ years of gaming industry experience
SERVICES
Operational Insights
Navigate beyond game ideas with tailored
operational strategy, pinpointing essential
actions for strategically planned growth, and building healthy team rituals and culture.
BizDev Ronin
Too small to have a full-time BD team, but too large for your founders to keep spending so much time on it? Leverage my connections for invaluable feedback, partnerships, and funding opportunities, acting
as your industry liaison.
Communications & Social Media
Forge impactful early-stage communication strategies, and get connected to specialists
for sustainable growth in
visibility and engagement.
Pitch Perfection
Elevate your funding pitches with targeted
reviews and feedback, ensuring your first
impressions are compelling and successful.
ABOUT
With almost 20 years in the gaming industry, I'm eager to take my accumulated knowledge across the myriad of disciplines I've worked in, and use my knowledge and experience to help support the latest generation of early-stage game creators. Let me lend my expertise and vast network of industry connections to help you fill in the "business" gaps beyond just engineering, creative, and design, to ensure your success for your studio through, and set you up for future stability and success.
PRIMARY SKILLS
General Operations
Business Development
Developer Relations
Industry Partnerships
SECONDARY SKILLS
Funding Strategy
QA Management
Live Operations
Team Growth
FULL BIO
J. is an 20 year veteran of the Games industry, with a career spent at place such as Riot Games, Electronic Arts, Genvid Technologies, Xsolla, and ASUS; with additional experience at his own and other early-stage startups and non-gaming technology companies. He's also a long time gamer, photographer, Part 107 certified Drone Pilot, an avid Maker, and a Board Member for a Non-Profit running the Las Vegas Hackerspace/Makerspace SYN Shop.
These experiences have provided him with two decades of working experience spanning across many disciplines, including General Operations, Business Development & Partnerships, Developer Relations, Live Operations, Production, QA Management, 1st Party Compliance and Certification, and even foundational Legal work around Contracts, IP, and Copyrights. Additionally, he's versed just well enough in coding to be dangerous to himself in his free time, and is an avid contributor to many Open Source projects.
For the last six years he has focused most of his efforts and skills building on helping companies grow and scale from the 10 to 100 team size phase, on their day-to-day operations, building healthy company cultures, establishing best practices, and building frameworks and policies for long term success through the common growing pains of those stages.
PAST PROJECTS
League of Legends
Ran the 3rd Party Ecosystem team, providing game data to dozens of third parties and tens of millions of players as well as managing strategic partnerships with our partners throughout the industry.
Rival Peak
The first Massively Interactive Live Entertainment (MILE) reality show, powered by AI and controlled by thousands of viewers in real time.
Genvid Technologies
The world's first MILE SDK technology company, I
built out both California offices from scratch,
growing us from 15 to 100 people.
Honored
Founder of the world's first
attempt at a player
data
aggregation platform designed
to reward
gamers with tangible rewards and merchandise
for the achievements in-game.
Electronic Arts
Shepherding dozen of SKUs through the 1st Party
Certification process, including the Dead
Space, Mass Effect, Rockband, and Sims
franchises as well as Digital Publishing and
internal DevRel leadership.
SYN Shop
On the Board of Directors for the non-
profit operating a 25,000 sq
ft
makerspace, managing
operations of the
shared facility for a hundred members.
