Mark Templin

McKinsey & Company

Product Manager

Virtro

• Produced 11 entertainment, learning, and training simulation products for WebGL and Oculus Go/Quest VR platforms.
• Scored $1.25MM (CAD) in grant funding by producing an innovative VR language education product for Canada’s Dept. of Nat'l Defense.
• Established quality assurance testing and engineering capabilities, release management practices, and a framework for test automation.
• Created a SaaS based live operations cost model by conducting cost-benefit analyses, and considering app design variants, expected user behaviors, and the viability of monetization strategies.
• Hosted 21 presentations and workshops on topics including go-to-market planning, pondering time, and intellectual property.
• Established a technology transfer program by creating a patent development process and perfecting the studio’s first application.
• Improved design capabilities by mentoring UX and game designers, developing best practices, and creating an internal knowledge base.

Head Of Studio

• Improved Agile project management by transitioning projects to Z-Stream, and negotiating a sweet business deal with the CEO.
• Strengthened game design practices through mentoring, making play test process improvements, and focusing on principles.
• Ensured privacy and legal compliance for all applications by designing backbone workflows to satisfy legal requirements, protect users’ data, and minimize business risk.
• Provided direction to the art and audio teams by hosting constructive critiques, structuring creative processes, and teaching pre-/production best practices.
• Directed the development of an AI-driven conversation engine in Unity by working with the CTO to create a system roadmap, defining functional requirements, and mentoring software architects.

Producer–Director

Oculus VR

• Developed an innovative mindfulness application (Senso Oasis) by designing the experience with the product’s founder, and engineering a working prototype in Unity (C#) for Oculus Go.

Oculus Launchpad Fellow

CLC Entertainment Studios

• Led the conceptual design process for a film and media collaboration platform by developing user personas, information architectures, functional requirements, and an interactive prototype in Adobe XD.

Principal UX Designer

Facebook

• Developed go-to-market plan details for Facebook’s Portal product customer service by collaborating with Isobar designers, conducting market research, and defining best-in-class system requirements.

Customer Experience Program Manager

Autodesk

• Designed feature and workflow improvements for AutoCAD Plant 3D and P&ID by conducting UX research, prototyping, and collaborating directly with engineers.
• Demonstrated leadership by emceeing UX design workshops, hosting annual conference sessions, and sharing direction with developers.
• Created a UX research community by inviting users to test new features using web- and Flash-based prototypes, and encouraging participation in Autodesk Labs beta tests.

• Invented a unique interaction design model and workflow for visualizing molecular scale behaviors (U.S. Patent 9,317,951).
• Created interaction design models for a web-based 3D life science platform called Cyborg by drawing user journey storyboards with detailed process captions, and developing working prototypes to bring the stories to life.
• Conducted user experience research through in-situ interviews with scientists and potential end-users, working feedback into prototype development.

Principal Interaction Designer

Trion Worlds, Inc.

• Designed the End of Nations game (PC/RTS/unreleased) web presence by creating and iterating on interaction designs, workflows, and information architectures, in direct collaboration with artists.
• Supported the End of Nations eCommerce experience design with the product's point-of-view, and collaboration on wireframes and workflows.

UX Designer

BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America Inc.

• Designed the Dark Souls product marketing and community website by aligning the concept of making the hardest website to enter and play, with the notoriously difficult console game.
• Launched the most successful Facebook marketing campaigns to-date for the Dark Souls franchise by tying winning on the marketing site to a "treasure hunt" for clues woven into online media partners' articles.

Producer

Zynga

• Designed the look, feel, and function of zynga.org by collaborating with the lead producer, and using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Implemented the visual designs of zynga.com and zynga.org using Adobe, Flash, and PHP.

Web Developer

Spin Master

• Built a novel 3D game platform on the web using Adobe Director/Shockwave for Tech Deck Live by recruiting a team of engineers and system administrators that collaborated on architectural design.
• Negotiated business deals with top-tier co-location facilities and ISPs to host platform services by meeting with business developers and touring on-site.

Technical Director

• Produced the Swypeout: Online Battle Racing (PC MMO) game by managing an associate producer, managing cloud development and hosting with Amazon Web Services, and providing on-site support to designers and developers at Fuel Industries (Ottawa, Canada).

Senior Producer

At work, I enjoy growing high performing teams, interdisciplinary collaboration, streamlining processes, building pipelines, and having fun.  At home, I keep busy supporting our pollinator friends, playing games, and creating XR experiences.

https://marktemplin.com/

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