I'm J.
After 18 years in the gaming industry, I've decided to take my accumulated knowledge across the myriad of disciplines I've worked in, and share my knowledge and experiences with the latest generation of early-stage game creators.
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I'm J.
After 18 years in the gaming industry, I've decided to take my accumulated knowledge across the myriad of disciplines I've worked in, and share my knowledge and experiences with the latest generation of early-stage game creators.
Navigate beyond game ideas with tailored operational strategy, pinpointing essential actions now versus later for prioritizing seamless growth that aligns with your fiscal strategy.
Leverage my connections for invaluable feedback, partnerships, and funding opportunities, acting as your industry liaison.
Benefit from comprehensive playtesting and feedback, as well as support in developing effective feedback programs for wider audiences for iterative improvement.
Forge impactful early-stage communication strategies, and get connected to specialists for sustainable growth in visibility and engagement.
Elevate your funding pitches with targeted reviews and feedback, ensuring your first impressions are compelling and successful.
Cultivate a strong corporate culture and effective communication channels, ensuring your studio stands out to prospective hires, and remains resilient through growth and challenges.
Over my time I have accumulated a diverse set of knowledge and skills in General Operations, Business Development and Partnerships, Developer Relations, Live Operations, Production, QA Management, 1st Party Compliance and Certification, and Contracts, IP, and Copyrights.
Lately, more and more Creatives and Developers have blazed their own trail, launching their own studios. Let me lend my expertise and vast network of connections to help you fill in the "business" gaps beyond just engineering, creative, and design, to ensure your success for your early stage studio through your initial funding, and set you up for future stability and success when you are able to grow and fill in those roles with full time experts.
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.
The first Massively Interactive Live Entertainment (MILE) reality show, powered by AI and controlled by thousands of viewers in real time.
The world's first MILE SDK technology company, I built out both California offices from scratch, growing us from 15 to 100 people.
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.
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.
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.
J is an 18 year veteran of the Games industry, with a career spent at place such as Riot Games, Electronic Arts, Genvid Technologies, and ASUS, with additional experience at his own and other early state startups and non-gaming technology companies as well. 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 almost two decades of working experience spanning across many disciplines, including General Operations, Business Development and Partnerships, Developer Relations, Live Operations, Production, QA Management, 1st Party Compliance and Certification, and even foundational Legal work around Contracts, IP, and Copyright. 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 more of his efforts and skill building on helping companies grow and scale from the 10 to 100 team size phase, focusing on the 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.