Scott Berfield
23719 NE 17th Street, Woodinville, WA 98077
425-283-9436, email: sb@berfield.com
Summary
Passionate and experienced Producer, Program and Business Manager. Exceptional creative and business management, team building, project management, budget, planning and mentoring skills. Quality driven, but realistic. Strong strategic vision coupled with tactical skill to achieve goals. Proven ability to balance features, schedule, and budget to ship high quality products.
Skills
Strategic Planning
Creative Project Management
Partner Relations Management
Scope, Schedule and Budget Control
Business Planning
Contract Negotiation
Recognizing and Nurturing Great Talent
Shipping great Products
Experience
2008 present Executive Producer, Smith & Tinker, Inc.
Responsible for all aspects of product development for Nanovor, a connected gaming experience for children composed of a hand-held game device, PC Game client, back end services, and Web presence. Four direct reports covering arts and design, development, hardware design and production, and server architecture and back-end tools. Direct production oversight for the Web sites and all hand-held software.
2000 2006 Xbox and Xbox 360 3rd Party Account Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Member of the initial Xbox 3rd Party Account Management Team responsible for evangelizing and managing relationships with 3rd party Publishers. Drove planning and implementation of Xbox and Xbox 360 demo game programs. Created and managed the Xbox Registered Developer and Incubator programs.
2006 2008 Lead Program Manager, Xbox Live Arcade , Microsoft Corporation
Managed a team of three producers while acting as producer for multiple titles. Shipped over a dozen games in 18 months. Participated in Arcade title approval, business planning, and strategic investment planning. Led crash development of Arcade camera-enabled titles to ship coincident with camera release. Defined standards and wrote white paper on best practices for camera-enabled XBLA games. Performed due diligence on developers and research on technologies which lead to successful titles including Trials, Magic the Gathering, Shadow Complex, and the currently-in-development Toy Soldiers.
Did extensive planning, managed cross-group communications and drove initial development required to support Xbox 360 Games on Demand through Xbox LIVE Marketplace
1997 1999 Executive Producer, Electric Planet, Inc.
Managed all aspects of internal and external product development for a start-up built around vision-enabled PC entertainment products for children. Multiple direct reports including development, design, and production leads. Directly involved in negotiations that secured a multi-million dollar investment from Intels entertainment venture fund.
1995 1997 Independent Production Consultant
1994 1995 Senior Producer, Sony Computer Entertainment of America
1992 1994 Senior Producer, Electronic Arts
1990 1992 Producer, Sega of America
1989 1990 Associate Producer, Mediagenic
1988 1989 Director SW Development, FASA Interactive (DBA Electronic Simulations Project)
1984 1988 Producer, Mindscape, Inc.
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Theatre, University of Illinois, 1981
Master of Business Administration, Santa Clara University,2000. Beta Gamma Sigma.
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