Jody Hilton

Unreal Staffing, Inc

As the Founder - Chief Gaming Officer at Unreal Staffing, Inc, I excel in understanding and addressing the unique challenges faced in securing top talent. My team ensures that complex requirements are fulfilled and enables productive collaborations, paving a direct route to innovation and success. Reach out to join our epic quest for success!

Founder - Chief Gaming Officer 

SureTech Staffing

Founder

E V E R T I D E

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Co-Founder & CEO

Strategic IT Staffing, LLC

I successfully built and sold this $20M IT staffing company, paving the way for future entrepreneurial endeavors.

I am providing executive leadership to articulate goals for sales management, systems development, corporate communication, compensation, employee relations, quality, training and organizational development.

I am also pioneering all of the B2B strategic digital and print marketing plans that include Branding, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Email and Content Marketing, leveraging internal and external resources, creating innovative campaign programs in all vertical IT markets, generating individualized sales email campaigns, developing Marketing automation and lead-generation tools, and setting up business intelligence tools for leadership decision-making across the organization through a customized performance business intelligence dashboard.

Key achievements include:
-Ranked 10 in Sacramento Business Journal Fastest Growing Companies 2007-2009 – and ranked 38 in 2011-2013. 
-Winner of the Most Innovative Communications Program from The American Staffing Association.

Chief Operating Officer

The overall business objective of Strategic IT Staffing LLC is understanding your business, your culture, and your needs. The first step in achieving your goals is understanding them, that is where we come in.

As the Founder and CEO, my role was to help the company realize its vision of creating unique and strategic staff augmentation solutions through mentorship, coaching, advising current leadership, and constructing a consultative Sales, Marketing and Recruitment process to seize unique revenue-generating value proposition opportunities.

Founder & CEO

Flash Network Solutions - MSP

At Flash Network Solutions, my responsibilities encompassed the delivery of cutting-edge technology solutions, premier services, and comprehensive IT support tailored specifically for small and medium-sized enterprises. Our expertise spanned technical network assistance, helpdesk support, computer maintenance, and strategic consulting, ensuring our clients could focus on their core business objectives.

We forged strong partnerships with a diverse array of businesses in the region, proactively addressing IT challenges to prevent costly downtime and facilitate seamless operations. Driven by our motto, "Your success is our success, and as you grow, we grow," we remained steadfast in our commitment to fostering the growth and prosperity of our valued clients.

I successfully built and sold this $10M IT staffing company, paving the way for future entrepreneurial endeavors.

I am providing executive leadership to articulate goals for sales management, systems development, corporate communication, compensation, employee relations, quality, training and organizational development.

I am also pioneering all of the B2B strategic digital and print marketing plans that include Branding, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Email and Content Marketing, leveraging internal and external resources, creating innovative campaign programs in all vertical IT markets, generating individualized sales email campaigns, developing Marketing automation and lead-generation tools, and setting up business intelligence tools for leadership decision-making across the organization through a customized performance business intelligence dashboard.

Key achievements include:
-Ranked 10 in Sacramento Business Journal Fastest Growing Companies 2007-2009 – and ranked 38 in 2011-2013. 
-Winner of the Most Innovative Communications Program from The American Staffing Association.
- Championed a Marketing automation system AKA “Marketing Machine” which sent around 250K emails a month nationally and generated around 3 to 10 job orders a week that were mostly from new clients.
- Developed and implemented a company-wide performance management and recognition program for Sales and Recruitment which resulted in a 20% improvement in developed and modeled consistent pay plans and incentive packages.

Electronic Arts (EA)

Narrative team contributor at Ripple Effect writing on the next Battlefield campaign (AAA).

Writer (Ripple Effect)

Writer brought in to help kick off the single player campagin of the next Battlefield game, to include: 

- Contribute to writer room sessions to establish the narrative of the campaign
- Develop narrative arcs based on project scope, brand expectations, and genre innovation
- Write screenplays in Final Draft for cinematics and gameplay
- Craft character bios and casting sheets
- Assist with casting 
- Continually evaluate narrative content through military veteran lens

Writer (Ridgeline Games)

Galactic Entertainment

Author of tie-in novels for the PlanetQuest universe, available on Amazon and Audible! And don't miss out on the connected comic by Marvel comic-writer B Earl (whose credits include DEADLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN and DAREDEVIL AND ECHO).

Galactic Author

PlanetQuest is a cinematic science-fiction transmedia project that invites you to discover a future where humanity has taken to the stars to explore, survive, and adventure into the far corners of the multiverse.

As the Narrative Lead, I established the brand and IP to include writing story, narrative design, world bible creation, documentation, and transmedia oversight. I also provided creative mentorship for the writers of the interactive, decentralized story and development on the comic and other tie-in media.

Narrative Lead

Hollywood

I write science fiction, horror, and thriller features and television, to include the following:

Previous: 
 
- RIVAL S/PEAK (interactive television produced by DJ2 Entertainment). 
- MINECRAFT: STORY MODE (interactive television/game produced by Telltale)
- INTO ABADDON (short film, horror). 
- Optioned such projects as a TV pilot based on an adaptation of John L. Monk's novel, KICK and a feature script adaptation of Sean Platt and David Wright's novel, CRASH.

Current Scripts Shopping: 

- Shooter Down (feature): After her husband is killed, a soldier returns home for answers and to reconnect with her 12 year-old son, but when criminals show up for a stash her late husband hid, she finds herself in a race to locate it while fighting to keep her boy safe.
- Mark Spears (pilot): A former U.S. Marine hopes to leave his demons behind by working security on the French Riviera but must confront his past when a shadowy organization hijacks a superyacht.
- Virtual Rift (feature): A man turns to a simulation to interact with a VR version of his dead fiancé for closure, but starts wondering if this really is the ghost of his lost fiancé, and if the company has gone too far.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1733364

Screenwriter (Television and Film)

Cyber Legends Inc

Narrative consulting in charge of worldbuilding, story, dialogue, and quest design for an upcoming role-playing game.

Principal Writer & Narrative Designer

Elder Tree Consulting

Oversaw a team of writers to deliver high-quality story consulting and writing with a focus on establishing IP and brand. Developed lore and story for 30-plus traditional and blockchain projects from ideation to launch, to include games, copy, short stories, novels, and graphic novels. 

With 10 years of experience writing for games and more years of relevant experience to include cryptologic linguistics in the Marines, economic and financial analysis with the Federal Reserve, and leading teams of writers and editors, I have accumulated a wealth of professional skills. My team has experience in the FBI, Web3, education, novels/publishing, film, and television projects. Additionally, having studied Japanese and attended Keio, I am interested in rewrites for games that are translated to English.

Freelance and consulting work I have done includes such projects as:

- FPS in development (NDA): Lead game writer for a procedurally generated sci-fi FPS, including lore, story bible creation, and barks.
- Project Kyzen, Impact Theory: Delivered expert writing and marketing materials for an Unreal Engine 5 game and Web3 “borderless entertainment” property, along with short scripts, a Webtoon, lore documents, character bios, and weapon descriptions.
- Novels for Eggtomatons

Managing Writer - Consulting | Founder

DJ2 Entertainment Inc.

Creative development and production for the Emmy-winning SILENT HILL: ASCENSION, an interactive television experience, in partnership with Genvid, Konami, and Bad Robot Games. Supported Stephan Bugaj. To include: 

- Drafting story treatments and development materials
- Providing story and art notes
- Researching and managing game lore on confluence
- Assisting with production as needed

Creative Manager

One of several writers staffed to create the hybrid interactive TV series RIVAL PEAK. Generated character sheets and additional writing to the companion show, RIVAL SPEAK.

Interactive Writer

Elder Tree Press

Publisher and author of books. If you are looking for a novelization or original high-quality novels for your IP, we would love to discuss the project and how we can help.

Led creative teams and development across multiple shared-world series, including worldbuilding and IP branding. Published such authors as myself, Jonathan Yanez, George S. Mahaffey Jr., L. Bowers, L.O. Addison, Kyle Noe, Justin M. Stone, Jamie Hawke, and more. 

Sci-Fi and Fantasy as Justin Sloan, Middle Grade as Justin M. Stone. Accomplishments include top 50 in all of Amazon, #1 in terms of sales for Superheroes in 2019, #1 Bestseller in various top categories. Ghostwrote additional novels and short stories. 

Outside publishers included: LMBPN, Double Down, and Hachette. Audiobooks published by Podium and Tantor.

IP Development & Publisher | Founder

LMBPN® Publishing

Author of 16 novels in the LMBPN shared universe series with Michael Anderle, including the RECLAIMING HONOR, VALERIE'S ELITES, and the HIDDEN MAGIC CHRONICALES series.

Get started with Justice is Calling - over 1k reviews!


Kindle Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars. 

"One hell of a series! I bought the boxed set, out of curiosity, but what a ride! Loved it! We get to see both the worst and the best of humanity in these stories. We also get to see people of every kind, work together, to achieve a miracle! Hope Valerie and Robin continue to kick Lutheran butt in their future!"

Author / Creative Development 

Jam City

Additional writing on Jam City's MARVEL AVENGERS ACADEMY.

Mobile Game Writer

Justin is an award-winning writer and narrative leader whose most recent experience includes writing on the next BATTLEFIELD game at Electronic Arts and authoring the QUANTUM TRILOGY tie-in novels for Galactic Entertainment. He loves working on big IP while also creating his own properties, specializing in adaptations and media tie-in projects. 

He served as a Marine Corps non-commissioned officer in signals intelligence and as a MCMAP instructor, was a Presidential Management Fellow in the U.S. Government, and studied International Relations and Economics at Johns Hopkins SAIS before traveling the world and ultimately becoming a writer of games, screenplays, and novels.

Leveraging his 10+ years in entertainment, Justin is excited to bring worlds to life for the screen and on the page. He has contributed to eight shipped games/hybrid TV experiences, including Telltale's GAME OF THRONES. He also worked in creative development on the Emmy-winning SILENT HILL: ASCENSION hybrid television show (on Tubi). Justin optioned such projects as a pilot to A+E and a feature to Rampart films and, on the prose side, wrote the MG novel A VIDEOGAME STOLE MY SISTER and co-created the RECLAIMING HONOR series.

Justin looks forward to more ways to bring his passions together to create amazing IP. He participated in the Netflix Animation Foundations program and the Writers Guild Foundation's Veterans Writing Project. 

IMDB -  www.imdb.com/name/nm1733364
Amazon - www.amazon.com/stores/Justin-Sloan/author/B00OJPAM0K
Website - https://justinmsloan.com

UPCOMING TITLES

•	Battlefield (NDA)
•	PlanetQuest (NDA)
•	Cyber Legends RPG (NDA)

PRODUCED TITLES

•	Silent Hill: Ascension (2023)
•	Project Kyzen (2023)
•	Rival Peak (2021)
•	Marvel Avengers Academy (2017)
•	Minecraft: Story Mode (2016)
•	The Walking Dead: Michonne (2016)
•	Game of Thrones (2015)
•	Tales from the Borderlands (2014)
•	Into Abaddon, Short Film (2013)

RECENT IP I LOVE

•	The Boys
•	The Terror
•	Shogun
•	Ghost of Tsushima
•	Ghostwire: Tokyo

IP THAT INSPIRED ME

•	Star Wars
•	The Lord of the Rings
•	Percy Jackson 
•	Harry Potter 
•	Battlefield
•	COD
•	Shadow of Mordor
•	Tomb Raider (2013)

ADDITIONAL

•	50+ Novels Published, from SciFi and Fantasy to Thriller and Middle Grade
•	Short film written/directed, several features/pilots optioned
•	Japan studies BA and MA, lived in Japan 2.5 years

PROJECT AWARDS: Emmy, Independent Audiobook Awards, IGN's Best Adventure Game, Kids Choice Award, Winner/Finalist in various screenplay contests, Excellence in Storytelling (IMGA) Nominee, Amazon Bestseller (top 50 overall)

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