Adam Creighton

Current

• Senior Product Manager at Emergent Game Technologies
• Professional Voice & Film Actor at Collier Talent Agency (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Enterprise Technical Director at Visa
• Project and Account Manager at Globeset
• Technical Writer and Information Architect at IBM, Tivoli

• Freelance Interactive Designer at Texas Association of School Boards (TASB)
• Technical Writer and Administrative Developer at Department of Energy (DOE)
• Academic Counselor and Systems Administrator at Utah State University
• Technical Writer at Department of Energy (DOE)
• Retail Specialist at Peaches' Pets (Sole Proprietorship)

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Education

• Ongoing creative training
• Utah State University

Recommended

8 people have recommended Adam

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Entertainment

Websites

• Video Game Blog
• Acting Blog
• My Company

Adam Creighton’s Summary

I'm a business development and technology leader interested in leveraging my proven track record of building teams and growing business & revenue. I'm also a professional actor in voice, film, commercial, animation, video game, and other projects.

Currently, I'm the Product Manager for Emergent Game Technologies, responsible for the market relevance of our products (Gamebryo and Gamebryo LightSpeed), including building, maintaining, and maximizing strong relationships with our platform partners.

Prior to Emergent, I was responsible for business development and managing multi-million dollar budgets and local and distributed software engineering teams for Visa, the world's largest payments technology company. I switched vertical markets because I'm passionate about interactive story-telling, and working in gaming lets me leverage big-gun tech and biz dev leadership with my indepedent creative skills.

And I wrestle llamas (and sometimes win).

Adam Creighton’s Specialties:

Business development, product management, project management, managing software engineers, risk assessment / management / mitigation, budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, vendor assessment, RFPs / RFIs, audit management (SOX / Sarbanes-Oxley), customer care, outsource / offshore management, business analysis, IT solutions, event planning, event coordination, film acting, voice acting, emcee, video game analysis, stop-motion animation

Adam Creighton’s Experience

• Senior Product Manager

  Emergent Game Technologies

  (Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Product management, business development, and strategic partnering for the Gamebryo Element video game engine. Game Developers Conference demo producer and licensed IP liaison.

• Professional Voice & Film Actor

  Collier Talent Agency (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 51-200 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  December 2000 — Present (8 years 8 months)

  Agency Website: colliertalent.com

• Enterprise Technical Director

  Visa

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; V; Financial Services industry)

  January 2001 — April 2007 (6 years 4 months)

  Enterprise Technical Director for in-house ERP, Commercial Card, and blue ocean services.
  
  Managed development and engineering teams, schedules, budgets, and assets for software, services, company events, and construction projects. Formally assessed, managed, and mitigated risk. Budgeted, forecast, managed SLAs, drove strategic planning, implementated initiatives, assessed technology, created and responded to RFIs/RFPs, facilitated audits, drove business and technical development, managed customer care, reduced costs, increased revenues. Documented business and technical requirements, ran user requirements and JAD sessions, and created high-level design documents and initial product designs (patent holder).
  
  Director, Corporate Solutions (2005 - 2007)
  
  Director, International Commercial Card Solutions (2004 - 2005)
  
  Project Manager (2002 - 2004)
  
  Business/Technical Analyst (2001 - 2002)

• Project and Account Manager

  Globeset

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  August 1999 — October 2001 (2 years 3 months)

  * Technical Account Manager (Managed development and customer expectations for the American Express BankTone Personal Agent account (the American Express Online Wallet)
  
  * Project Manager (Implemented online wallets (SSL and SET) for Citibank and People's Bank of China accounts)
  
  * Consultant and Developer (Customized workflows, changed user interfaces, extended functionality, and integrated the Citibank CitiWallet product with third party technologies)

• Technical Writer and Information Architect

  IBM, Tivoli

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

  1997 — August 1999 (2 years)

  * Information Systems Developer, Tivoli Systems (Researched, designed, and developed information solutions for Tivoli products; Participated in the development of JavaHelp API)
  * Information Systems Developer, IBM Network Computing Software Division (NCSD) (Designed, developed, and tested information and multimedia products for IBM)

• Freelance Interactive Designer

  Texas Association of School Boards (TASB)

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; E-Learning industry)

  1998 — 1998 (less than a year)

  Implemented installers and coded a learning module for English as a Second Language (ESL) CD-ROMs.

• Technical Writer and Administrative Developer

  Department of Energy (DOE)

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Public Policy industry)

  1996 — 1996 (less than a year)

  Wrote technical documents and developed scheduling applications for the Department of Energy DOE-ID Operations Offices.

• Academic Counselor and Systems Administrator

  Utah State University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  1996 — 1996 (less than a year)

  Counseled students and administered systems for Utah State University's (USU) college of Humanity, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS).

• Technical Writer

  Department of Energy (DOE)

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Public Policy industry)

  1995 — 1995 (less than a year)

  Wrote technical documents for the Department of Energy DOE-ID Operations Offices.

• Retail Specialist

  Peaches' Pets (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 11-50 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  1989 — 1994 (5 years)

  Served as retail specialist and cashier, co-planned promotions, and managed aquatic and avian departments for consumer pet and commercial feed store.

Adam Creighton’s Education

• Ongoing creative training

  2002 — 2007

  * Steve Prince
  > Meisner
  > imdb.com/name/nm0003930
  
  * Dan Fauci
  > Into the Abyss
  > Leadership and Creativity
  > imdb.com/name/nm0268994/
  
  * James Alburger and Penny Abshire (The Commercial Clinic)
  > The Art of Voice Acting
  > http://www.commercialclinic.com
  
  * Will Wallace
  > Auditioning / Cold Reading
  > Acting
  > http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003930/
  
  * Marci Winters Allen
  > Voice
  
  * Donise Hardy (CSA)
  > Commercial Auditioning
  > Take Your Career to the Next Level
  > castingworksla.com
  
  * Mona Lee
  > Acting
  > thebizonline.com/britelites/mona-lee-bio.html
  
  * Van Brooks (Two Chairs Studio)
  > Samurai
  > Advanced Film Acting
  > Audition Weekend Intensive
  > The Mastery
  
  * Lainie Frasier
  > Ongoing Personal Coaching
  > Voice Acting: Animation
  > Voice Acting: Industrial
  > Voice Acting: Commercial
  > You're On the Air Part II
  > www.lfvoiceworks.com/

• Utah State University

  Bachelor of Sciences , Technical Communication, New Media, Insdustrial/Instructional Design, Communications , 1993 — 1997

  Graduated Magna Cum Laude with University and Departmental Honors. Minored in Instructional and Multimedia Design.

  Activities and Societies:

  Beta Theta Pi, Departmental and University Honors Societies, Campus Crusade for Christ, Media Arts, Convocations, University newspaper, University politics

Additional Information

Adam Creighton’s Websites:

• Video Game Blog
• Acting Blog
• My Company

Adam Creighton’s Interests:

Technology leadership Professional voice & film acting Expert fly fishing and fly tying PC and video gaming (armchair video game industry analyst) Anime/action cartoons/comic books Recreational running and avid all around outdoors Technology- and computer-related knowledge and skills (hardware, software, eCommerce, networking, project management and financial services) Llama Wrangling CD/DVD Authoring Guitar

Adam Creighton’s Groups:

The Bohemian Theatre Troupe
Beta Theta Pi national fraternity

•    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
•    280 Group: Product Management & Product Marketing
•    International Game Developers Association
•    Gaming People - The Gaming People Expert Network (+8.000)
•    Triangle Game Dev Network
•    Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA)
•    The Creative Talent Network
•    Showbizjobs.com
•    Beta Theta Pi Fraternity
•    USU Alumni
•    Filmmakers
•    Utah State University Alumni, USU
•    Game Industry PR and Marketing
•    Marketing Communication
•    Game Developers
•    World Gaming Executives
•    Voices.com
•    Film TV Professionals
•    Credit Card Professionals
•    Visa Alumni
•    David Perry's Game Industry Map Group.
•    Media Professionals Worldwide
•    Music and Entertainment Professionals
•    The Games Developers Network (www.vfx-recruit.com)
•    Video Game Professionals
•    Payments & Cards Network
•    Game Creator's Network
•    Electronic Entertainment Industry Network
•    Video Game Marketing Group
•    Gamebryo & Gamebryo LightSpeed Users
•    Beta Theta Pi Professional Network
•    Video Gaming Industry Executives
•    VideoGame Professionals
•    Working Voice Actor Group
•    Serious games people
•    twitter innovators Innovation & Creativity Network of Tweeters
•    Video Game Financing
•    Globeset Alumni
•    Game Payments
•    Voice Over Vision
•    VIDEOGAME BIZ DEV
•    RTPconnected
•    Bloggers' Network

Adam Creighton’s Honors:

Visa "Wall of Fame"
US Patent 6,920,611, "Method and System for Implementing a Loyalty Merchant Component" (Paul Spaeth, Douglas Jones, Adam Creighton, issued July 19, 2005)

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