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To meet the growing demand for the company’s online games and virtual worlds business, Brandissimo! is adding three new hires to its production team, it was announced by Executive Producer and Vice President of Content Josh Fisher. Sean McKenzie joins the company as Web Developer, responsible for managing flash and Web programmers as well as designing and programming games. He comes to Brandissimo! from The Sean James Company, LLC., a boutique Flash games design and programming firm he owned and operated for the past three years. Sean James Company produced flash games and widgets for NFLRUSH Zone in addition to designing and producing new features for Brandissimo!’s ultra funky online social community and game site, Urbaniacs.com. “For a guy who creates and plays games for a living, Sean takes his work very seriously. From Newgrounds to Kongregate, he is a student of the casual gaming industry and remains an active and well respected member of the gaming community. Having worked with Sean on a number of projects, I am thrilled to bring him on board, even if I can’t beat him at Disco Balls or any of the other games we’ve created together,” said Fisher. Mat Segal joins Brandissimo! as Producer, with responsibility for managing the production of a yet-to-be-announced massively-multiplayer virtual game world. Most recently, Segal served as Web and server product manager at Juice Wireless, where he was responsible for the ongoing development of Web, WAP, CMS, Flash player and servers. Prior to Juice, he was senior coordinator of site policy and enforcement at MySpace/Fox Interactive Media. “Mat has quickly established himself as a social networking expert. He’s not only active in the space, but constantly seeks new approaches to social networking with a keen eye for new applications and experiences in the social networking and kids space,” said Fisher. Drafted from the throng of young gaming aficionados who graduated college this spring, Iowa University graduate Todd Schultz joins Brandissimo! as Community Manager of the NFLRUSH Zone virtual games world. Reporting to Fisher, Schultz is charged with making the hugely successful NFLRUSH Zone world even more engaging and fun for the site’s 1.5 million registered users, in addition to maintaining the spectacular growth in new users NFLRUSH Zone has experienced since its launch. “Todd’s creativity, energy and enthusiasm for entertaining kids made him our top draft pick to bring NFLRUSH zone to the next level of virtual NFL excitement,” said Fisher. |
