Producer with over 14 years of experience in the interactive industry with expertise in game design, team building and motivation, budget management, creative direction and schedule tracking. Experience also includes contract negotiations, marketing solutions, and license acquisition. Strong track record of accomplishments in relationship management, strategic planning and procedural refinement.

Work History:
Producer Mattel, Inc.
“Nickelodeon Sports”, “Barbie 12 Dancing Princesses”, “Hot Wheels Crush Course”, “Hannah Montana,

1st and 2nd Edition DVD games”, Cars DVD Game, Jonas Brothers DVD Game, Electronic Toss Across, Mindflex, Uno iPod, Uno Skip-bo

Partner I Sr. Producer – Red Giant Entertainment LLC.
“2-Spot”, “Mikirnoto’s Grand Arcana”, “Speedline”, “Luchadores 5″, “Yarnakaze”

Producer – Crave Entertainment Inc.
“Ultimate Fighting Championship”: Playstation 2, Xbox and Game Cube, “Battle Realms”: PC, “Freedom Force”, “Soldier of Fortune”: Dreamcast, “Kabuki Warriors”: Xbox, “Kengo 2″, “Jet [on GP”: PS2

Assistant QA Manager Squaresoft Inc.
“Fina[ Fantasy T: PC, Playstation, “Final Fantasy 8″: PC, “Xenogears”, “Parasite Eve”, “Parasite Eve 2″, “Brave Fencer Musashi”, “Final Fantasy Antholoqy”, “Chrono Cross”, “Front Mission 3rd”, “Legend of Mana”, “Threads of Fate”, “Ehrgeiz”, “Bushido Blade”, “Bushido Blade 2″, “Vagrant Story”, “Chocobo Dungeon”, “Chocobo Racing”, “Saga Frontier 2″

Product Analyst Blizzard Entertainment
“Warcraft”: Mac, “Warcraft 2″: PC, Mac, ·Warcraft Adventure”: PC, “Diablo”: PC, Mac, “Starcraft”: PC

Composer / Business Managment with decades of experience in the interactive game  and film industries. Skilled in music composition and SFX  as well as business development.

Work Histroy:

General Manager – SMP, LLC.

A composer with the ability to write music for television, motion pictures and games, all of which are completely different disciplines, is a very rare thing to find.  To find one who is able to do that in a variety of musical styles is even harder.  Los Angeles based composer, Eric Speier is one of those rare finds.

From Live Orchestral Scores to driving Rock and Roll, from Bluegrass to Mariachi, from Jazz to World Music, Eric has caught the attention of the major Hollywood Studios as well as the interactive community.  The quality and originality of his compositions continue to garner high praise by both critics and fans.

Some Network Show credits include, “Mission Hill” for The WB and Cartoon Network. “Mullets”, for UPN, “The Pitts”, for Fox, and “Complete Savages” for ABC

Eric’s work in Interactive Gaming includes the score for the best-selling “Oregon Trail” series, Bella Sara themes commercials and DVDs, Hannah Montana, Cars, Sponge Bob the complete score for the MMOG, “Alganon”  and the 2003 E3 “Best Sound and Music Award” for his work on Atari’s, “Horizons,

Empires of Istaria”, a massive multi-player online role playing game, which also won him very numerous critical reviews.

In the motion picture category, Eric has scored movies including, “Implicated”, for Columbia/Tri-Star studios, “Goldfish” for Canal Plus and has music in such recent releases as, “The Punisher”, Fantastic “Johnson Family Vacation”, and “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle”, “Ghost Rider”, “Fantastic Four” and the score for the upcoming animated feature, “Conan, Rednails.”

You can find out more about Eric, including contact information at:

http://www.filmmusic.org

Programmer I Technical artist with a decade of experience in the interactive I game industry. Skilled in programming, 3d I animation, compositing, and web development.

Work History:
Sr. Designer Mattel, Inc.
“Nickelodeon Sports”, “Barbie 12 Dancing Princesses”, “Hot Wheels Crush Course”, “Hannah Montana,
1st and 2nd Edition DVD games”, Cars DVD Game, Jonas Brothers DVD Game, Electronic Toss Across, Mindflex, Uno iPod, Uno Skip-bo

Interactive Designer
DZN design group, Los Angeles, California (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Graphic Design industry) October 2002 – November 2004 (2 years 2 months) Design DVD g!ames and menus. Worked on 007(Die Another Day). and Harry Potter 3 The Prisoner of Azkaban DVD game and menu design. Some programming for CD-ROM

Lead Game Developer/3D artist Design Reactor, San Jose, California
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry) December 2000 – January 2002(1 year 2 months) Leading game development team to building online flash/shockwave game for Disney Channel. Some website design for Disney.

Technical Director
Imaginengine, San Francisco, California (AKA Backbone) (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)
January 2000 – August 2000 (8 months)
Built kids game for Hasbro.

Programmer & Designer with 15 years experience in the game industry.

An innovative programmer and game designer, Ben tackles both technical and creative challenges with equal relish. His range of experience has covered nearly every aspect of technical development, resulting in a roster of successful projects, ranging from small-scale apps to top-tier AAA titles.

Ben has been developing games since his teenage years. His first adventure game, Sorcerer of the Crimson Tower, was released in 1996. It was followed by the Mac hits Harry the Handsome Executive, and Ferazel’s Wand, both released by Ambrosia Software. He was responsible for all game design, level design, and programming on these titles, which were very popular and well reviewed.

Later he spent 3 years as lead client engineer on the massively multiplayer online RPG, Horizons (now renamed Istaria.) This role brought new managerial responsibilities and critical decision-making roles on technical issues. It was also a chance to work with a top name publisher, Atari. Another successful project was GRCLive video streaming software.

Since joining 5 Elements, Ben has become a key member of the team, completing the iPhone apps iMock, Kau Cim, and most recently TxtFighter.