Electronic Arts (EA)

Senior Game Design Director 

StatusPro

Director of Creative and Design

Microsoft

Lead Producer 

NBCUniversal Media, LLC

Creative Producer

The Topps Company

Studio Lead

Microsoft - Turn 10 Studio

Senior Producer/Program Manager

	Establish and lead the vision for the experience between physical products and Apps-video games 
	Work with toy designers, marketing, patent attorneys, and external game developers to deliver integrated experiences on time 
	Heavily involved in the marketing plan, messaging, and box design for integrated play toys and products
	Responsible for budgets for several projects
	Create integrated play prototypes with internal teams and external developers 
	Work with external developers on cutting edge new technologies for physical and digital integration
	Manage a Production-Design team
	Created several Best Practices documents for App-video game design and development processes

Hasbro

Lead Producer

	Directly managed the careers of Designers while Mentoring designers throughout Tiburon Studio
	Created user experience Design Tenets that drove the design of the game
	Championed the concept of personalized presentation and UX compared to just customization
	Initiated and continued to lead Designer training for more than 5 years at EA -Tiburon
	Presented game concept to Executives, Coaches, Professional Athletes and League Officials
	Constructed Design Template used for Game Design Documents 
	Wrote, edited and reviewed game design documents
	Introduced in depth review summits throughout the stages of feature development
	Worked with development teams to create schedules using Agile methodology in Hansoft.
	Tuned and tweaked risk reward systems, animations and overall meta-game 
	Scheduled and monitored Play Test sessions throughout the development cycle
	Direct motion capture shoots- which includes contract negotiation 
	Used in game analytics and consumer research to prioritized feature design
	Worked directly with marketing and PR throughout the development cycle
	Primary person interviewed by the media

EA - Tiburon

Creative Director

	The founder and first Project Lead of Central Gameplay which is still going strong today 
	Managed the Central Gameplay management team that managed the engineers, animators, and designers
	Created tenets that defined the difference in gameplay between NFL and NCAA football
	Worked with the leadership of both Madden & NCAA to create features to satisfy both game teams
	Directed motion capture shoots- which includes contract negotiation
	Write, edit and review game design documents
	Set the development priority for every task during production and bug during alpha

Producer

I started as a tester at Midway Home Entertainment before moving into Production.  I worked as a 3rd Party Producer with several different developers around the globe.

Midway

Production

Jason Barnes