Allen Ma
Founder | Exec | Gamer
15.1
Years of Experience
Education
Companies
forte, americana game studio, merigo, dena west, ngmoco, ngmoco, ngmoco, yahoo, right media, atlanticare, pjm interconnection, department of health and human services
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Experience
2018 - Present
forte
VP of Partnerships
Our team is comprised of veterans from companies including Kabam, GarageGames, Unity, ngmoco, and Twitch. We're building a transformative blockchain gaming platform that aligns the interests of developers and players. To more quickly bring blockchain's benefits to the masses, we've put together a $100M developer fund.
2015 - Present
americana game studio
Co-owner, Board Advisor
2013 - Present
merigo
Co-Founder, CEO
Our unified backend service helps developers build server-driven games faster and empowers product managers with custom tools. It takes as little as 30 minutes to get setup with our SDK and start writing server-driven game logic. With Playground's tools, you can build a fully-networked first playable in as little as 1 man-month. Check us out at http://merigo.co
2013 - 2013
dena west
Head of Third Party
Managed all third party developer relationships, development schedules, launch strategies and third party production teams. -Doubled baseline ARPDAU for games such as Motor World Car Factory, Flutter, and Please Stay Calm by integrating gameplay and functionality best suited for mobile free-to-play game experiences. -Oversaw development and release strategies for 3rd party games in development, beta launch and global growth phases. -Grew high-trust relationships with over 20 developers including Crytek, Nimblebit, Runaway Play and Ohbibi. -Mentor and grew a highly specialized 3rd party producer organization, teaching them free-to-play monetization, mobile marketing/UA, and forecasting. -Worked directly with CEO to determine strategies for 3rd party portfolio. -Responsible for P&L of entire 3rd party division. -Defined marketing and user acquisition targets for titles, determined risk/reward profiles for executing against spend targets.
2012 - 2013
ngmoco
Senior Producer
Lead producer in charge of managing all 3rd party development efforts on DeNA/ngmoco Mobage Platform. -Shipped highest revenue titles including Tiny Tower, Pocket Frogs and Zombie Farm on Android Mobage and continue to update these in close coordination with IP owners to ensure quality bar that they have come to expect. -Engage new developer partners with insight gained from shipping over 40+ mobile games between first and third party in the last 4 years. -Provide Marketing, Design and integration support for 3rd parties developing original games for the Mobage Platform -Supporting international development and localization efforts across Japan, China and Korea and work closely with our operating partners (AT&T, NTT Docomo, Samsung, etc). -And all other responsibilities as listed in Producer below.
2009 - 2012
ngmoco
Producer
- Shipped over 10 titles at ngmoco to date. -Concept, create, develop and market all forms of titles from puzzle to strategy to first person shooters to casual online drawing games. - Managing multiple teams of external and internal developers, artists, sound engineers, QA and localization teams to deliver outstanding products and meet milestone dates in a timely manner. - Evaluate real time game analytics and revenue numbers in order to create compelling content updates to retain daily active user (DAU) goals. - Streamlined and created ngmoco's Plus+ Partners game network developer program's acquisition and relationship management. - Achieved integration of the Plus+ framework in the games of 45+ developers including Team17, Universal Music Group, Mumbo Jumbo and Turtle Rock Studios and helped grow the Plus+ networks user sign ups to meet company objectives. -Experienced in all next-generation mobile development markets.
2008 - 2009
ngmoco
Associate
-Launched titles on the Apple AppStore include MazeFinger, Topple, Dr. Awesome, Topple 2, Star Defense. -Managed multiple teams of external developers to deliver completed tasks and meet milestone dates in a timely manner. -Conceptualized and designed levels and gameplay modes in such titles as Topple 2 and Dr. Awesome. -Coordinated asset delivery among external sound, art, and localization teams. -Organized and prioritized items discovered by external QA teams on the various titles. -Currently working on two new titles while managing the live update process for all currently released titles.
2007 - 2008
yahoo
Software Engineer
Currently in a role where I'm prioritizing and allocating work items and projects, dealing with client issues directly through support, communicating our status with other departments (QA, Ops, SysAdmins, AdServer, ReportWare). Diving a little bit into product management -- information gathering and specification writing. On top of that, still developing our current system YieldManager, which is written in PHP/mySQL that heavily utilized Ajax and XML.
2006 - 2007
right media
Web Developer
Before being acquired by Yahoo!, designed and developed features and products for our main web application in a LAMP environment. See Yahoo! job for more details.
2003 - 2004
atlanticare
Web Software Developer
2002 - 2003
pjm interconnection
Assistant Web Master
2001 - 2002
department of health and human services
Computer Specialist
Experience
37 Skills
Advertising
AJAX
ajax
Analytics
architecture
Backend
Blockchain
Database Design
Database Design
Design
Founder
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Information Architecture
Information Architecture
iPhone
JavaScript
Javascript
Logic and Reasoning
Management
Mobile Applications
Mobile Games
MySQL
MySQL
Online Advertising
Online Advertising
operations
PHP
PHP
Product Management
Product Management
product manager
Senior Software Engineer
Software Development
Software Engineer
Unity
Video Games
Web
Education
