Aug 2025 – Present · 9 mos · San Mateo, California, United States · Remote

• Leading Sales & Business development for Keywords Studios Player Engagement Services

Aug 2025 – Present · 9 mos · San Mateo, California, United States · Remote

Sep 2021 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

Feb 2016 – Sep 2021 · 5 yrs 7 mos

• Leading the AWS World Wide Games Business Development, Strategy and Operations functions.

Sep 2011 – Feb 2016 · 4 yrs 5 mos · San Mateo

• Global Ownership of Games Content Business Development Activities across Sony platforms.

Jan 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Reported to CTO
• Executive approval and ownership of all mobile business development related activities for Namco Bandai's Mobile group.

Jun 2005 – Nov 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Reported to Director of Product Development
• Managed a team of 4 producers and 10 QA
• General oversight of production efforts for Namco’s wireless division, which included: Production and QA
• Day to day activities included; GDD Review and Creation, Project management, Developer relations, execution of product strategy roadmap.
• Primary focus was process development and building an efficient production team.

Sep 2004 – Jan 2011 · 6 yrs 4 mos

• Reporting directly to CEO/COO
• Managed team of 100 internal and 100 offsite
• Executive level oversight of all production and deployment related activities for Namco’s wireless division, which includes: Production, design, art, QA, submissions, and porting groups.
• Responsible for developing and implementing studio wide roadmap.
• Day to day activities includes: Budget analysis, implementation, and approval, Resource planning / management , Communication with Sales, Marketing, and Engineering groups and high level strategy meetings with other subsidiaries of the Namco Bandai Group, and helping manage / provide guidance to Namco global studio’s (London, Romania).
• Lead business development efforts which includes: Negotiating and executing developer contracts and work orders, negotiating licensing agreements with IP holders, review and commenting of distribution agreements for various channels, negotiating in corporate global acquisitions.

Sep 2004 – May 2005 · 8 mos

• Reported to Sr. Producer
• Was first QA hire and was tasked with duty of building QA department.
• General QA efforts for Namco’s mobile division and was responsible for executing on a quality strategy that allowed Namco to very efficiently get product to market reducing overall costs and time to market
• Test plan creation and execution
• Implemented QA standards that still exist in company today
• Primary focus was on building a QA team and implementing non existent QA standards

Aug 2003 – Sep 2004 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Reported to CEO
• Managed Console and Mobile QA and localization services as a 3rd party service provider.
• Build team of specialized localization testers was 3rd party solution for many top publishers such as Jamdat (Now EA Mobile), THQ, Warner Bros, Sony, Disney, BAM! Entertainment, Natsume.
• Partner communication and management
• Resource Management and recruiting.