Brett Jackson

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Hi, My name is Brett Jackson and I'm Director of Game Development at Bally Technologies, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

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Brett Jackson's Experience:

• MD/VP Consulting at Qais Consulting

  2008 - 2009

  Moved to Singapore to lead the transformation of Qais from a successful Digital Media and Website shop into a developer of original IP in the form of web based products. The transformation project kicked off at the onset of the global financial crisis and had to be shelved. I stayed with Qais to help run the organization, lead development and pitch for large regional web dev projects.

• Director of Product Management and Design at Atlassian Software Systems

  May 2007 - July 2008

  Built and managed the Product Management and Design Departments from scratch. Was a key member of the Executive Leadership team. Oversaw Atlassian's entry into the Saas market. During my tenure the product range increased from 5 to 14 products and revenues increased by 30%.

• Graphics Development Manager/Studios Head at Aristocrat Technologies

  May 2005 - May 2007

  Restructured a global team of 250+ Game Designers, Creatives and Software Engineers to a studio model and redefined work practices and processes to significantly increase output and innovation. Envisaged, built and managed a best of breed outsourcing program that covered 7 geographies. Managed third party and licensing relationships.

• Director Creative Services at Fairfax Digital

  2003 - 2005

  Re-energized and restructured the Creative Services team. Redesigned the architecture, flow, logic and creative of every major web property in the Fairfax stable delivering significant increases to unique visitors, ad views and clicks throughs, page load, page click through, visit time, depth of path and referrals. Devised and led the move to Standards Based design for Fairfax Sites, far ahead of most similar publishers internationally, saving millions in bandwidth and making the sites faster and easier to update.

• Senior Account Executive at xm asia

  2002 - 2003

  Led regional communications projects and strategy for clients such as Visa International

• Senior Strategist at lemon

  2001 - 2002

  successfully pitched and led the design and implementation of regional online projects/strategy for clients such as Philips and British Airways.

• Senor Information Architect/GM HK at Selenium

  1999 - 2001

  Founded the Hong Kong division of this leading Australian digital agency. Led regional digital development and strategy projects for clients such as HSBC and Ticketek

• Founder, Director at babalouie

  1994 - 1999

  I saw the need for more integrated approach to web based application development and formed and led Babalouie to address this. The company sat developers and designers together. We sought out and trained designers to be technically proficient in Multi Media, HTML, Java, JS and CSS. Specialists in the Apple's Web Objects we developed high function web based applications for International Banks, Telcos and Technology companies.

• Technical Support Engineer/Internet Consultant at Apple

  1995 - 1998

  Initially I provided consumer and corporate technical support for the full range of Apple products with a focus on multimedia and internet. I then began to work on the builds of Apple's international websites. I held key roles on some of the first large scale database driven and mutli-language sites in the world. Apple's corporate customers began requesting Apple specific internet development support which Apple itself was not geared to supply. In response to this I formed Babalouie to provide these services to both Apple and it's customers.

• Technical Co-ordinator at Art Gallery of NSW

  April 1989 - September 1995

  planned and installed computer based art works, audio visual for events up to 2000 people, co-ordinated and operated technical aspects of film, performance and lectures.

• Director Game Development at Bally Technologies

  2009

  Iniitally hired and relocated to India to provide operational, creative and strategic direction for the Indian game division. I re-organized, trained and re-energized the teams. For the first time since established they are producing original games equal to the US teams. They are now the most productive game development units in Bally. In 18 months I lifted their share of game output from 5% to 40%. I committed myself to transcending the time zones and geographic barriers to be a constant contributor to global initiatives and strategies. For example I restructured Bally's international game development which is now delivering at three times the previous output with 40% less staff. I have recently relocated to the Las Vegas HQ to manage teams in the US and take ownership of a number of new initiatives.

Brett Jackson's Education:

• University of Technology, Sydney

  1985 – 1989
  BA Comm

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