Brent Shinn

Current

IT Administrator at Double Fine Productions

Past

IT Manager at Planet Moon Studios
IT Manager at Ping0
IT Manager at Flagship Studios, Inc.

Owner at Onsite PC

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Education

American Management Association
JCC
West Virginia University

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Connections

259 connections

Industry

Computer Games

Websites

My Website

Brent Shinn’s Summary

I specialize in Gaming Industry IT Management. I focus on the technologies and infrastructure behind efficient, secure, and functional support; constantly looking for new ways to aid the development process.

I believe in hard work and focus; I am deeply dedicated and diligent with my tasks. Work ethic is extremely important to me and I am willing to go above and beyond the call of duty to see success. I have learned that the extra mile doesn't always reward you, but the feeling of accomplishment is more genuine and satisfying just to know that you made the effort.

As IT Manager, I have handled purchasing, budgeting, project management, overseeing the IT staff, and day to day operations for 2 companies working together in a shared environment.

We've had AC units in server rooms blow, water pour through ceilings, transformers exploding under the side walks, insane baseball fans sore at the loss of their team, parking spot intrusions, lost connections, hacked websites, worms on the network, crashed arrays, dead pigeons, bad directory paths at 4AM in Korea after being awake for 44 hours, BSOD's at E3 (and a few hangovers), and countless other calamities...

But I held my cool and made it through everything.

Brent Shinn’s Specialties:

Perforce Administration
Security
MS System Center
Network Architecture (LAN/WAN/MAN)
Windows / Linux / Mac
Facilities (Server room and data center build)
Sound Production

Brent Shinn’s Experience

IT Administrator

Double Fine Productions

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

May 2009 — Present (9 months)
IT Manager

Planet Moon Studios

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

August 2008 — April 2009 (9 months)
IT Manager

Ping0

(Entertainment industry)

January 2006 — July 2008 (2 years 7 months)
IT Manager

Flagship Studios, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

January 2006 — July 2008 (2 years 7 months)
Owner

Onsite PC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)

October 1998 — December 2005 (7 years 3 months)

I owned and operated a small computer and network support company. My customers ranged from a chain of convenience stores to random office support for various types of businesses.

I developed a shopping cart front end for a client. The website allowed customers to custom order golf-style shirts with custom monograms and colors. I spent over 1 year developing the scripts and constantly modifying the interface. Sadly the project lost funding due to the government cutting back on programs that help developmentally disabled individuals.

I supported numerous companies over a period of 7 years. I sold the company when I took my current job.

Brent Shinn’s Education

American Management Association

Completion , Managing Today's IT and Technical Professionals , 2007 — 2007

AMA - Management 3 day course. I actually took this initially in July. On the evening of the first day I was in a motorcycle accident and unable to return. I enjoyed the opportunity to take the first day over again.
JCC

1991 — 1992
West Virginia University

Additional Information

Brent Shinn’s Websites:

My Website

Brent Shinn’s Interests:

New Technology Physics Guitar Guitar Amplifiers Drums Music Video Games Philanthropy

Brent Shinn’s Groups:

GamesProducers
CIO Forum
Game Developers
Bay Area - Silicon Valley Network
Electronic Entertainment Industry Network
VideoGame Professionals
MMOGs
MMORPG
Flagship / Ping0
Flagship Studios / Ping 0 - Alumni
EVC Leaders - Practitioners of IT Enterprise Value Creation (Only for CIOs, IT & PMO Managers)
Strategic use of IT