Creative Director at GeoVector Corporation
New Zealand
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- Creative Director at GeoVector Corporation
- Past
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- Creative Director/Owner at Gamefreaks
- Concept Development Manager at Webmedia
- Vice President: Concept Development at ISIS Communications
- Creative Director at IQ Media
- Owner at Judson Steel
- Art Director / Studio Manager at Twist Media
- Owner at Real Time Interactive
- Team Leader at Terabyte Interactive
- Education
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- Waikato Institute of Technology
- Auckland University of Technology
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Scott Judson’s Summary
I love all things digital and have a passion for minimal clean design. I believe in creating clever and forward thinking strategies and ideas for client’s problems. I want to work in an agency that loves creative thought and integrates their digital across the agency.
I have worked in both start ups and large companies, but at this stage I would prefer to work for a larger agency.
With 17 years experience delivering digital commercial products, the past 8 years being focused mainly on mobile and location based services, I feel my strengths in this area as well as my overall digital knowledge will be a huge boost to any agency.
I have substantial experience delivering creative technology products and solutions in Australasia, Asia and America, including the successful launch of products into the Japanese and worldwide mobile application markets. This includes pure concept work, creative design and managing delivery from both internal development teams and outsource partners.
Scott Judson’s Specialties:
Experienced in all aspects of digital & print design & development including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, HTML, XML, PHP.
Experienced in mobile phone application design for J2ME, BREW, Windows Mobile, iPhone & Android platforms
Scott Judson’s Experience
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Creative Director
GeoVector Corporation
(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)
August 2001 — Present (8 years 5 months)
Headquartered in San Francisco, GeoVector develops solutions for the efficient delivery of location-based services. Supported by significant intellectual property, GeoVector allows mobile web services to be attached to any physical object or location and launched just by pointing with a mobile device.
Initially employed as Concept Development Manager, focused on conceptualising/prototyping potential applications based on GeoVector's patented methodologies. I was promoted to Creative Director after successfully launching our commercial solutions in Japan and took on the role of working with our clients and partners.
In this role I also designed and managed the build of our flagship pointing application, World Surfer. This has recently been launched worldwide on the iPhone and Android platforms.
A brief summary of my role includes:
Conceptualise and manage the development of consumer mobile phone applications on the iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile & BREW platforms.
Commercial deployment in Japan on the BREW platform.
Commercial deployment worldwide on the iPhone and Android platforms.
Design and management of construction of GeoVector’s spatial servers.
Management of GeoVector’s websites.
Managing staff and contractors in Auckland, Christchurch, San Francisco & Tokyo. -
Creative Director/Owner
Gamefreaks
(Publishing industry)
July 2001 — September 2009 (8 years 3 months)
I launched Gamefreaks in August 2001 as New Zealand’s only free video game magazine, printing over 25,000 copies a month, it is now a very competitive retail magazine and the only locally produced retail video game magazine in New Zealand.
Set up gamefreaks.tv a video game culture tumblr blog in February 2009. It is consistently placed as #2 Tumblr in New Zealand and #1 Video Game Tumblr in the world.
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Concept Development Manager
Webmedia
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 2 months)
Initially based in Melbourne I was employed to set up the Australian office in Melbourne and staff it (10 staff). Once the Melbourne office was running I was transferred to Head Office in Auckland to conceptualise and manage the design and build of Webmedia’s web application ‘Q’ (an autonomous personal assistant, workflow manager) with a staff of 12.
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Vice President: Concept Development
ISIS Communications
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1999 — May 2000 (9 months)
ISIS Communications was a public company based in Melbourne. With an IPO of over $200m ISIS grew dramatically up from 14 staff when I started to over 250 when I left.
Although their main focus was on an online secondary school teaching/homework social network (XSIQ) they also purchased a number of businesses. I was employed to help analyse the potential fit of some of these companies to what ISIS was already doing, and from that I setup and staffed ISIS digital streaming division and wireless division. My final assignment at ISIS was to conceptualise and manage the design of mySUMO (a unified messaging system). -
Creative Director
IQ Media
(Internet industry)
May 1999 — September 1999 (5 months)
After contracting to IQ Media for several months I worked inhouse on the strategy, design and branding for IQ Media’s clients including the AFL, Melbourne Exhibition Centre, ISIS Communications and The Age.
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Owner
Judson Steel
(Internet industry)
June 1998 — April 1999 (11 months)
I contracted to various advertising and media agencies in Auckland and Melbourne including Saatchi & Saatchi, Foote, Cone & Belding, AD-FX, IQ Media and Dunham Bremmer. I also wrote the webmaster column for New Zealand Computer magazine.
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Art Director / Studio Manager
Twist Media
(Internet industry)
June 1996 — June 1998 (2 years 1 month)
Dunham Bremmer purchased Real Time and my team was integrated into their existing digital media division (Twist Media). I took on the role of running the studio of 10 staff and art director for the department. I managed all aspects of design and production. I was responsible for answering all client briefs, budgeting and project management. I had the chance to work with some outstanding clients including Sony, BMW, KPMG, DHL and Honda producing interactive CD’s, websites and television commercials.
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Owner
Real Time Interactive
(Telecommunications industry)
February 1995 — June 1996 (1 year 5 months)
After several years in the industry I decided to begin my own multi-media studio and set up a team of 6. We focused on bringing to the market a different set of services from the other multi-media studios, integrating great design, solid technology and creative marketing to give our projects the point of difference no one else had at that time. Some key projects were the world’s first real time interactive television game/commercial for Saatchi & Saatchi, an interactive television voting system for Max TV and Advantage Groups Annual Report interactive CD.
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Team Leader
Terabyte Interactive
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
January 1993 — February 1995 (2 years 2 months)
After working as production manager for the print division of Terabyte, I was promoted to help staff and led the development of multimedia in New Zealand. Within the role I answered the client briefs and designed/developed many projects including interactive kiosks for the Auckland Museum and Maritime Museum and the Keno automated television draw.
Scott Judson’s Education
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Waikato Institute of Technology
Graduate Diploma in Computer Based Learning , 1994 — 1995
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Auckland University of Technology
Marketing , 1991 — 1993
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The Executive Club
Scott Judson’s Honors:
Finalist in Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Awards 2006 for our Local Search Application (on KDDI Japan)
Nominated for SPIFFY Award for Engineering Excellence in Telecom 2007
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