VP Products/GamerDNA - Founder/360voice.com
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- VP, Products at GamerDNA Inc.
- Past
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- Creator, President at It Can Talk Systems, Inc (360voice.com)
- Senior Manager, Technology at Spencer Stuart
- Webmaster at Arnold Engineering Company, Inc.
- Education
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- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Connections
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Trapper Markelz’s Summary
Experienced product manager who practices iterative/agile methods. Effective communicator with a black-belt in presentations, capable of bridging the gap between business and technology. Good problem solver and team leader with an ability to derive solutions and strategies that are both creative and practical. Hardware and networking background enable a thorough understanding of how decisions made during design and development impact production systems. Experience with application interfaces and graphic design promote a meticulous attention to detail.
Trapper Markelz’s Specialties:
Product Management, Application Strategy, Software Architecture, Systems Design, Information Architecture, Interface Design, Graphic Design, Network Architecture.
Trapper Markelz’s Experience
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VP, Products
GamerDNA Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
GamerDNA exists to bring the world together through games. We're gamers. There are millions of people who share our passions and interests, and our company is committed to creating an experience for all of us to enjoy. GamerDNA.com is a community for where you can join forces with friends, share your stories and discover what's happening in the games you love.
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Creator, President
It Can Talk Systems, Inc (360voice.com)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2006 — April 2008 (2 years 1 month)
Created 360voice.com, one of the largest Xbox 360 community sites, where gamers can read automatically generated blogs about what they and their friends are doing every day on Xbox Live. It takes the static information in the Xbox Live gamercard and creates a very detailed history of gaming accomplishments.
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Senior Manager, Technology
Spencer Stuart
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
April 2001 — March 2008 (7 years)
Developed multi-year application strategies, managed a development staff of 20 people including designers, developers, and managers, defined processes that embrace Agile/Spiral development, evangalized the roll-out of social media technologies that leverage RSS, blogs and wikis, defined loosely-coupled enterprise architectures, championed the consolidation of legacy applications into new platforms, organized training and education for the department, coordinated the implementation of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007.
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Webmaster
Arnold Engineering Company, Inc.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
May 1999 — April 2001 (2 years)
Trapper Markelz’s Education
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Rochester Institute of Technology
BS , Information Technology , 1995 — 1999
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New England Games and Interactive Entertainment SIG (MIT Enterprise Forum) -
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Trapper Markelz’s Contact Settings
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