Mari Wallgren

Director of Engineering

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland20 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Veteran in mobile game development.
Expert in free-to-play game mechanics.
Strong leadership in game production.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Game Development Expert with extensive experience in mobile and social gaming.

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Skills

Other Skills

F2PJiraTeamworkGame MechanicsGame ProgrammingDirectXUnity3DUser Interface DesignLevel DesignSchedulesXbox 360MultiplayerMobile Devices

About

My game development background includes a large variety of titles ranging from mobile to PC and social network games. Most of my career has been focused on Android and iOS game development and free-to-play games. In game development I count as my pros good communication and organizing skills and the ability to balance between creative and practical decisions with a humble and honest attitude towards my team. Contact me if you want to meet a veteran of the mobile game industry who has social skills, ideas and great knowledge on games and game making and experience from creating and running live operations on big budget mobile games. Specialties: F2P, agile development, mentoring, project management, game design, usability, product innovation, mobile games, Jira.

Experience

20 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Netflix

Development Director

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Metacore

Producer

Sep 2022 – Jan 2023 · 4 mos · Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Zynga

3 roles

Director of Production

Promoted

Mar 2022 – Sep 2022 · 6 mos

Lead Producer

Mar 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Senior Producer

Mar 2017 – Mar 2020 · 3 yrs

Electronic arts finland

Development Director

Sep 2014 – Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Helsinki

Electronic arts finland oy / ea maxis

2 roles

Producer

Promoted

Jun 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Helsinki

Associate Producer

Oct 2012 – Jun 2013 · 8 mos · Helsinki

Digital chocolate

5 roles

Associate Producer

Nov 2011 – Sep 2012 · 10 mos

Lead Game Designer

Apr 2011 – Nov 2011 · 7 mos

Game Designer

Promoted

Sep 2010 – Apr 2011 · 7 mos

Working as a lead designer for Facebook social games.

Junior Game Designer

Promoted

Mar 2008 – Sep 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Working as the lead designer for multiple game projects for different platforms such as mobile phones, Facebook, PC, iPhone and iPod Touch. Specialties include casual games, social games and casual virtual worlds.

Designer trainee

Nov 2007 – Feb 2008 · 3 mos

As a trainee at the design department I functioned as a supporting designer and also a lead designer in multiple projects for different gaming platforms, mainly making games for mobile phones, PC and Facebook.

Newspaper kainuun sanomat

Journalist

Feb 2006 – Jun 2006 · 4 mos

Writing news reports and articles. Written pieces published in other Alma Media papers as well, such as Aamulehti, Iltalehti, Satakunnan Kansa etc.

Tns gallup

Research Assistant

Nov 2004 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr 2 mos

Participant for several marketing research projects.

Kajaani city library

Librarian and project worker

Nov 2003 – Nov 2004 · 1 yr

In addition to the Librarian's position I also worked with the Finnish Ministry of Education endorsed project for digitizing historically valuable materials.