PlayFirst Company

Industry: PC game company

Description

PlayFirst, Inc. is a Delaware based publisher of casual games founded in 2004 by industry veterans. PlayFirst produced the Diner Dash series, which won the 2008 Annual Casual Game Awards. and has seen over 550 million downloads. Headquarters: San Francisco, CA Parent organization: Glu Mobile Founded: 2004, San Francisco, CA Key person: Marco DeMiroz Founders: Jason Rubinstein, John Welch, Brad Edelman

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PlayFirst Employees

Employee
Years
Job
Industry
Rebecca Vessal Rebecca Vessal San Francisco Bay Area Details
Rebecca Vessal's PlayFirst Experience October 2015 - Present
Job Game Engineer at PlayFirst
Industry Computer Games
Experience
PlayFirst   October 2015 - Present
GREE International, Inc  January 2015 - July 2015
Apple  May 2014 - November 2014
Apple  May 2013 - August 2013
Uncorked Studios  June 2012 - November 2012

Skills
C#, XNA, Java, ActionScript, Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Word, PowerPoint, Easy C, Picocrickets, Flash Animation, Photoshop, Objective-C, HTML 5, CSS3, CSS2, JavaScript, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, PHP, 3D Modeling, 2D Flash Animation, Maya, 3D, C++, CSS, Programming, Visual Studio, Game Design, Web Development, HTML5

Education
Rochester Institute of Technology   2010 — 2014
Bachelor, Video Game Design and Development, 3.83

Chaminade High School

Ethan Levy Ethan Levy San Francisco, California Details
Ethan Levy's PlayFirst Experience November 2005 - April 2007
Job Monetization & Design at N3TWORK INC
Industry Computer Games
Experience
N3TWORK INC  April 2015 - Present
FamousAspect   April 2012 - Present
Quarter Spiral   July 2012 - September 2013
Bioware  December 2011 - April 2012
Bioware  February 2009 - December 2011
Electronic Arts  June 2008 - January 2009
iWin  September 2007 - June 2008
Winster   April 2007 - September 2007
PlayFirst   November 2005 - April 2007
Completely PostModern Productions   August 2003 - December 2006

Skills
Game Design, Metrics Analysis, Team Management, Level Design, Game Mechanics, Social Networking, Game Development, Social Games, Analysis, Online Gaming, User Experience, Creative Direction, Monetization, Mobile Games, Video Games

Education
University of Southern California   2001 — 2005
Bachelor of Arts, Communications

Steven Chen Steven Chen San Francisco, California Details
Steven Chen's PlayFirst Experience March 2012 - May 2013
Job Product and Publishing at Kabam
Industry Internet
Experience
Kabam  July 2013 - Present
PlayFirst   March 2012 - May 2013
The Walt Disney Company  April 2011 - January 2012
Munch On Me (Acquired by Collegebudget.com)   January 2011 - April 2011
Google  June 2010 - December 2010
Salesforce.com, Jigsaw   February 2010 - June 2010
TechCrunch  November 2009 - June 2010
UC Berkeley Residential and Student Service Programs (RSSP)   February 2009 - December 2009
Premier Capital Advisory LLC   April 2009 - September 2009

Skills
Monetization, Analytics, Product Management, Product Marketing, CRM, Business Development, Salesforce.com, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Mobile Devices, Video Games, Google Adwords, Leadership, Strategic Partnerships, Social Games

Education
University of California, Berkeley   2006 — 2010
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Economy, Concentration in Finance & Consumer Behavior

Damien Mammoliti Damien Mammoliti Edmonton, Canada Area Details
Damien Mammoliti's PlayFirst Experience July 2009 - February 2010
Job Freelance Concept Artist at Bone and Brush Studios
Industry Computer Games
Experience
SEGA Europe Limited  March 2014 - Present
CD PROJEKT RED  2013 - Present
Built By Snowman, Inc.   January 2015 - Present
Planet Forge Games   August 2014 - Present
Paizo Publishing  October 2009 - Present
Fantasy Flight Games  June 2011 - Present
Wizards of the Coast  March 2009 - Present
pixelStorm entertainment studios Inc.   April 2010 - February 2014
Playfirst   July 2009 - February 2010

Skills
Digital Illustration, Game Art, Digital Painting, Video Games, Game Development, Character Animation, Illustration, Zbrush, Concept Design, Game Design, Comics, Conceptual Art, Casual Games, User Interface Design, Traditional Animation, Storyboarding, Animation, Photoshop, Computer Games, Texturing, Art Direction, Mobile Games, Art, Concept Art

Education
Academy of Art University   2006 — 2009
Bachelor of Traditional Art, Traditional Illustration

Karyn Johnson Karyn Johnson Greater Seattle Area Details
Karyn Johnson's PlayFirst Experience September 2007 - September 2009
Job
Industry Consumer Services
Experience
Moochy Poochy   November 2010 - Present
PlayFirst, Inc.   September 2009 - December 2010
PlayFirst   September 2007 - September 2009
Google  August 2006 - August 2007

Skills
Training, Recruiting, Employee Relations, Talent Acquisition, Video Games, Human Resources, Technical Recruiting, Organizational..., Performance Management, Onboarding, Employee Benefits, Applicant Tracking..., Leadership Development, Social Networking, Social Media, Leadership, Interviews

Education
University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management   2004 — 2006
M.A., Human Resources & Industrial Relations

University of Washington   1999 — 2003
BS, Psychology

Kirk Sumner Kirk Sumner Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area Details
Kirk Sumner's PlayFirst Experience May 2011 - September 2013
Job Senior Software Engineer at Encore
Industry Computer Games
Experience
Encore  February 2015 - Present
Logicated, LLC   July 2014 - Present
Allen Interactions  September 2013 - June 2014
PlayFirst   May 2011 - September 2013
Zivix   January 2010 - April 2011
Clandestine Systems   April 2007 - January 2011
Zivix LLC  2010 - 2011
Destineer   January 2001 - March 2007
MacSoft/Atari   March 1996 - October 2000
GT Interactive  1996 - 2000

Skills
OpenGL, Game Programming, Objective-C, Game Development, Unity3D, Mobile Games, DirectX, C++, Wii, Xbox 360, Perforce, Game Design, Programming, Mobile Applications, Gameplay, Team Leadership, Artificial Intelligence, Subversion, Team Management, Xbox, Xcode, Gameplay Programming, HTML, Windows, Lua, OOP, Flash, Cross-platform..., Console, User Interface, Educational Games, Department Management, iPhone, C, Software Development, XML, Ruby, ActionScript, Software Design, Video Game Development, iPhone development, Windows Programming, C#, JavaScript, Python, Java, Scripting, Agile, Win32, Agile Methodologies

Education
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities   1985 — 1990
B.S., Computer Science

Erin Middendorf Erin Middendorf Greater Seattle Area Details
Erin Middendorf's PlayFirst Experience March 2008 - July 2009
Job Artist at PopCap Games
Industry Computer Games
Experience
PopCap Games  July 2010 - Present
Ooga Labs  August 2009 - June 2010
PlayFirst   March 2008 - July 2009
iWin Games, Inc.   August 2007 - March 2008
Cinematico  July 2007 - August 2007
LeapFrog  June 2007 - July 2007
LeapFrog  August 2005 - August 2005

Skills
drawing, character design, flash animation, Flash Animation, Drawing, Digital Painting, Character Animation, Game Art, Game Design, Video Games, Animation, Visual Arts, Illustration, Storyboarding, Game Development, Social Games, Gameplay, Casual Games, Concept Design, Flash, Traditional Animation, Character Designs, Art Direction, User Interface, Conceptual Art, Mobile Games

Education
San Jose State University   2002 — 2007
BFA, Animation/Illustration

Lars Edwards Lars Edwards San Francisco Bay Area Details
Lars Edwards's PlayFirst Experience July 2012 - Present
Job Animation Director at Playfirst
Industry Animation
Experience
Playfirst   July 2012 - Present
Lolapps  August 2011 - March 2012
Green Shoe Animation, LLC   2010 - September 2011
Soup2Nuts  September 2009 - April 2010
Magnetic Dreams   June 2009 - October 2009
Fablevision  June 2008 - November 2008
Radical Axis  March 2006 - June 2008
Vote-D   July 2006 - October 2006
Soup2Nuts  2005 - 2006
Rhode Island School of Design  2001 - 2004

Skills
Traditional Animation, Flash Animation, Illustration, Creative Direction, Animation, Character Animation, Storyboarding, After Effects, Flash, Drawing, Video Games, Film, Cartoons, Art, Concept Design, Art Direction, Digital Painting

Education
Rhode Island School of Design   2000 — 2004
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Film, Animation, Video

Andrew Goulding Andrew Goulding Greater Seattle Area Details
Andrew Goulding's PlayFirst Experience August 2008 - September 2014
Job Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Industry Information Technology and Services
Experience
Amazon  October 2014 - Present
Brawsome   April 2008 - Present
PlayFirst   August 2008 - September 2014
AIE  June 2010 - September 2010
Krome Studios  November 2007 - August 2008
Tantalus  November 2006 - November 2007
Codemasters  March 2006 - October 2006
Torus Games   December 2004 - April 2006
YTEK   February 2002 - November 2004
RMIT   March 2000 - November 2001

Skills
Lua, Game Design, Artificial Intelligence, C++, C, Editing, Scripting, User Experience, ActionScript, Programming, Gameplay, Game Development, C#, User Interface Design, iPhone, Unity3D, Photoshop, Flash, Public Speaking, Android, Java, Writing, iPhone development, Production, Casting, Dialog, Comedy, Max, PHP, JavaScript, Python, SQL, XML, Windows, Visual Studio, Proofreading, CSS, Apple, Mac OS X, Xcode, Excel, PowerPoint, Business Management, Perforce, Tortoise SVN, FogBugz, Bugzilla, Eclipse, Cocos2dx, Atlassian JIRA

Education
RMIT University   1999 — 2001
BAppSci, Computer Science

RMIT University   1999 — 2001
Diploma of Business, Management

Angel Inokon Angel Inokon San Francisco Bay Area Details
Angel Inokon's PlayFirst Experience September 2006 - December 2010
Job Limelight Health at Product Manager
Industry Online Media
Experience
Limelight Health  May 2015 - Present
LightSide Games   August 2014 - March 2015
Design Caffeine   August 2014 - October 2014
Store Grunt   December 2013 - April 2014
Pretty Mobile Meetup   December 2012 - June 2013
Animation Mentor  February 2012 - November 2012
Animation Mentor  July 2011 - February 2012
Recharge Games   January 2011 - June 2011
Playfirst   September 2006 - December 2010
Shaba Games, Activision   January 2006 - May 2006

Skills
User Interface Design, Project Management, Public Speaking, Team Building, Usability, Strategy, Coaching, Video Games, User Experience, Game Development, E-Learning, Game Design, Social Media, Agile Project Management, Photoshop, Mobile Applications, Flash, Creative Direction, Instructional Design, Android Development, Rapid Prototyping, Executive Management, Strategic Thinking, Product Development, Product Management, Gamification, UML, Wireframes, Android, User Interface, Agile Methodologies, Entrepreneurship, Scrum, Blogging, Leadership, Casual Games

Education
Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry   2013 — 2017
Biblical Studies and Leadership

Stanford University   2005 — 2006
MA, Education, Learning Design and Technology

Harvard University   1995 — 1999
BA, Sociology, Economics

Springbrook High School   1991 — 1995
High School, Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program

Chee Han Lim Chee Han Lim San Francisco Bay Area Details
Chee Han Lim's PlayFirst Experience February 2012 - August 2012
Job Senior Game Engineer at N3TWORK INC
Industry Computer Games
Experience
N3TWORK INC  July 2015 - Present
Hush Limited   May 2014 - June 2015
Freelancer  November 2013 - April 2014
Kazaana Singapore   December 2012 - October 2013
Lambdamu   August 2012 - November 2012
Playfirst   February 2012 - August 2012
PlayFirst, Inc.   October 2011 - February 2012
PlayFirst, Inc.   August 2010 - October 2011
LambdaMu Games Pte. Ltd   December 2009 - July 2010

Skills
Objective-C, C++, Programming, Lua, C, Xcode, OpenGL, iPhone, iPhone development, Performance Tuning, Problem Solving, Creative Problem Solving, Getting The Job Done, Instrumentation, Software Development, Video Games, Game Development, Game Programming, Mobile Games, iOS development, Ruby, Perforce, iOS, User Interface, Mobile Applications

Education
Nanyang Technological University   2005 — 2009
BSc., Computer Engineering

Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore   2001 — 2004
Diploma, Electronics, Computer and Communications Engineering

Eric Snider Eric Snider San Francisco Bay Area Details
Eric Snider's PlayFirst Experience December 2006 - May 2009
Job Senior iOS Developer at Duff Lite
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Duff Lite   March 2014 - Present
Sniderware   January 2002 - Present
PlayFirst!  December 2006 - May 2009
Apple Computer, Inc.   April 2005 - September 2006
Ten 90 Group   March 2005 - March 2006
Rearden Steel Technologies/Moxi/Digeo   October 2000 - November 2003
Mixed Signals Technologies   May 1999 - September 2000
Delta Tao Software   April 1996 - May 1999
Catapult Entertainment  February 1995 - March 1996
Apple  1991 - 1991

Skills
Casual Game Development, C/C++, Objective-C, Game Development, iPhone, iPhone development, Casual Games, iOS development, Video Games, Game Design, Mobile Games, Game Mechanics, Animation, iOS, Mobile Devices, User Experience, Interaction Design, C++, Computer Graphics, Photoshop, HTML, Software Development, Programming, OpenGL, Mobile Applications, Xcode, Computer Games, Software Engineering, Ruby, iOS Development

Education
Carnegie Mellon University   1987 — 1992
BS

Roeper School   1984 — 1987
High School

Sheridan Hitchens Sheridan Hitchens San Francisco Bay Area Details
Sheridan Hitchens's PlayFirst Experience 2006 - 2008
Job Product and Big Data Executive
Industry Internet
Experience
Auction.com  2012 - Present
Multiple Tech/Web Companies   2009 - Present
Kabam  2010 - 2012
Brightstorm, Inc.   2008 - 2009
PlayFirst   2006 - 2008
PlayFirst   2004 - 2006
Towers Perrin  1996 - 2003
Procter & Gamble  1991 - 1994

Skills
Product Management, Product Marketing, Business Strategy, Social Games, Social Media, Payments, E-learning, Online Video, Product Strategy, Mobile, Start-ups, E-commerce, User Experience, Competitive Analysis, Online Marketing, Strategic Partnerships, Social Networking, Analytics, Marketing Strategy, Mobile Applications, Market Research, Digital Marketing, Web Analytics, Agile, Strategy Development, Market Analysis, Team Leadership, P&L Management, Strategic Planning, Cross-functional Team..., Business Planning, Team Building, Team Management, Entrepreneurship, Agile Project Management, Monetization, Big Data, Organizational..., Data Science, Business Intelligence, Data Products, Startup Marketing, Leadership, Internet, Online Advertising, Strategy, Mobile Devices, Agile Methodologies

Education
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business   1994 — 1996
MBA, Business Administration, Honors

University of Cambridge   1988 — 1991
BA, Mathematics, Honors

Latymer Upper

Tim Mensch Tim Mensch Greater Denver Area Details
Tim Mensch's PlayFirst Experience September 2004 - May 2010
Job Software Architecture Consultant
Industry Computer Software
Experience
QuickCharge Games   May 2010 - Present
Amazon  March 2014 - May 2015
Amazon.com  October 2013 - March 2014
Cardinal Peak  August 2012 - May 2013
PlayFirst   September 2004 - May 2010
Z-Axis  2003 - 2004
Vividata   2002 - 2003
3d6 Games   2001 - 2002
Digital Eclipse   2000 - 2001
Third-i Productions   1993 - 1999

Skills
Assembly, Debugging, Object Oriented Design, Game Design, C++, Lua, Cross-platform..., Game Development, C, OpenGL, Video Games, Casual Games, Mobile, Video Game Development, iPhone, Game Programming, User Interface, iPhone development, DirectX, Video Game Design, User Interface Design, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Games, Android, Programming, Software Development, Scripting, iOS development, Software Engineering, OOP, Game Mechanics, Mobile Devices, iOS, Gameplay

Education
University of California, San Diego   1988 — 1990
BS

Sora Bai Sora Bai San Francisco, California Details
Sora Bai's PlayFirst Experience January 2008 - September 2009
Job Senior Producer Words on Tour
Industry Computer Games
Experience
Zynga  May 2013 - Present
Zynga  May 2012 - May 2013
Zynga  May 2011 - May 2012
Digital Chocolate  October 2009 - May 2011
PlayFirst   January 2008 - September 2009
PlayFirst   March 2007 - January 2008
PlayFirst   December 2005 - March 2007
Shockwave   2000 - 2001
CNET  January 1997 - December 1999

Skills
Community Sites, Mobile Games, Game Development, HTML, Casual Games, Marketing, Social Games, Online Marketing, Online Advertising, Online Gaming, SEM, Newsletters, Monetization, Video Games, Facebook, iPhone, Game Design, User Interface Design, Social Media, User Experience, Social Networking

Education
University of California, Davis
B.S., Agricultural Economics

San Jose State University
M.L.I.S, Library and Information Science

Bonifacio Costiniano Bonifacio Costiniano San Francisco Bay Area Details
Bonifacio Costiniano's PlayFirst Experience August 2005 - June 2006
Job Software Developer at Tech Soft 3D
Industry Computer Software
Experience
Tech Soft 3D  March 2008 - Present
Backbone Entertainment - Emeryville   June 2006 - September 2007
PlayFirst   August 2005 - June 2006
Zentropy Partners  1999 - 2000

Education
California State University-East Bay   2007 — 2008
MS, Computer Science

California State University-East Bay   2002 — 2005
BS, Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics

Digipen Institute of Technology   2000 — 2002

Sherban Drulea Sherban Drulea Santa Monica, California Details
Sherban Drulea's PlayFirst Experience February 2010 - February 2011
Job Senior Research Programmer at RAND Corporation
Industry Computer Games
Experience
RAND Corporation  May 2014 - Present
Activision  September 2011 - February 2014
Cisco  February 2011 - May 2011
PlayFirst   February 2010 - February 2011
Gazillion Entertainment  October 2007 - February 2010
Electronic Arts  October 2004 - September 2007
Healthnet  July 2002 - April 2004
Pacific School of Religion  September 2001 - June 2002
Beatnik  January 2001 - July 2001
Grass Valley Group  July 2000 - January 2001

Skills
Web Applications, PHP, Agile Methodologies, Django, REST, Ruby on Rails, Databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Git, Web Development, Java, Apache, Jenkins, Game Development, Python, User Interface Design, Node.js, Video Games, LAMP, Casual Games, Lua, Ruby, Restify, Thrift, Perforce, CodeIgniter, Yii, Kohana Framework, C++, iOS development, Objective-C

Education
Oregon State University   1997 — 2000
BS, Computer Science

University of Oregon

Damien Murtagh Damien Murtagh San Francisco Bay Area Details
Damien Murtagh's PlayFirst Experience June 2011 - February 2013
Job Director of Engineering at Playfirst Studio at Glu Mobile
Industry Computer Games
Experience
Playfirst Studio at Glu Mobile   May 2014 - Present
PlayFirst, Inc.   May 2013 - Present
PlayFirst, Inc.   February 2013 - May 2013
Playfirst   June 2011 - February 2013
Playfirst Inc.  February 2010 - June 2011
PlayFirst, Inc.   April 2009 - February 2010
Information Providers Ltd   November 2008 - April 2009
Avaya  April 2004 - October 2007

Skills
Lua, Objective-C, C++, Ruby, Game Development, cocos-2d, ActionScript, Shell Scripting, Animation Pipeline, OpenGL, Perforce, Flash, Programming, iOS development, Cocos2d, cocos2d-x, UIKit, Box2d, Amazon Web Services..., Mobile Game Development, Social Games, Xcode, Python, iOS, Video Games, Mobile Games, Game Programming, DirectX, Game Design, Casual Games, iOS Development

Education
Trinity College Dublin   2007 — 2008
MSc in Interactive Entertainment Technology, Software Engeneering, Maths, Graphics, Animation, Physics, Vision Systems, XNA Development

Dublin City University   2001 — 2005
BSc in Computer Applications, Computer Science and Software Engineering

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