About me

Dear HR manager

As a highly motivated senior manager with 20-plus years of experience leading development departments to produce AAA quality product for leading global companies, I am prepared to take my career one step further and seek the opportunity to join your team as CREATIVE DIRECTOR. I am confident my extensive background and expertise in multiple facets of strategic planning, production management, and concept analysis makes me completely qualified to apply for this position.

I have established a solid reputation as as senior manager which is able to help the growth of the companies which I worked with establishing the proper production processes and realistic quality goals tailored on the real potential of the teams and the company, avoiding the waste of time and money. I am also a mentor able to support the key people, I like to share my experience, give suggestion, create trust in the project and in the company vision and ensure that quality standards and deadlines will be maintained.

A sample of my accomplishments includes:

- built a AAA mobile studio for Funplus in Beijing

- Increase the value of IGG, Chinese developer/publisher leader in mobile games, developing and supervise 4 new studios for IGG. basically I helped the company IGG in the transition from a local Chinese publisher to become a world wide publisher

- Increasing comprehensive value of the Ubisoft Bucharest studio by creating production departments capable of producing AAA next gen product like Tom Clancy Hawx.

- Increasing the value of the "Angelo investment" holding creating from scratch Dreamslair a social game company based in Monopoli ( Bari )

You will also find I possess outstanding analytical skills with the ability to identify production milestones and workflows to support business objectives.

What I can bring in your company :

- the experience 20+ years of videogame production in a key position, where I successful managed indie teams, high skilled teams for large next gen product, mobile team, multicultural team

- Deep knowledge of the production processes and quality control, from preproduction to release, experience learned working with big publisher like Ubisoft, IGG and Funplus

- familiarity with the development of several type of games : adventures, RPG fantasy, strategic, match 3 casual, racing games, arcade jet fighter

- my experience in outsourcing management with European and not European companies

- the management of several projects at the same time

Please review the enclosed resume for a more complete presentation of my experience and individual abilities. Thank you for your consideration and I look forward to your response.

Sincerely

Mario Ricco