30 Johnson Rd., LaGrangeville, NY 12540  

(845) 592-0845  

richardhutnik <@ symbol> optonline <dot> net 

www.linkedin.com/in/richhutnik

 

SUMMARY

Experienced professional, with the skills and experience in the following areas:

Leadership (tech and non-tech)	Online Community Management	Game design (published)
Marketing	Sales	Sofware design and test
Operations (Technical)	Documentation	End-User support

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Management and Leadership

• Managed a team which developed and maintains the current IAGOWeb.com website. The website features a Leaderboard that rates players at over 100 different games, using XML files sent over RSS feed, utilizing a database.

• Oversaw creation of a social network site for CADERS, an organization dedicated to casual and retro gaming.

• Acted as assistant team lead that supported over 700 diverse AIX based machines essential to IBM chip design development.

• Jointly developed a business plan for a startup involved with automating bar leagues.

 

Non-Technical Management and Leadership

• Founded a community of casual and retro game enthusiasts, CADERS, with over 170 members on Facebook.

• Organization founder and original president of IAGO, a non-profit, currently incorporated in New York State.

• Set up a D.B.A (Doing Business As) for IAGO's promotion company, in Dutchess County.

• Developed new services and handled promotion to manage growth and expansion.

• Obtained a number of Memorandums of Understanding where organization would act as an agent for various game publishers, designers, and associations.

• Developed and oversaw a series of diverse global game tournaments, online and offline, which had hundreds of participants annually, and another series of tournaments, which had dozens of players weekly.

• Founded a standards committee, advisory board, and Hall of Fame. Installed a management team still functioning in organization, that included a president of an organization, and executives of various other game organizations.

• Trained and mentored new team members as an assistant team lead.

 

Sales, Marketing and Promotion

• Generated thousands of dollars in revenue marketing, promoting, and selling info products over Internet.

• Conducted technical system studies, market research, and formally presented proposals.

• Solicited new retail sites for distribution of marketing material, with over 85% success rate obtaining new locations.

• Jointly managed distribution route for marketing material.

• Advised on marketing decisions, purchasing, pricing, promotion, and display of videogame rental products.

• Negotiated rental agreement for video game products.

• Solicited, and collected, a number of games for use by non-profit's library.

• Place several game organizations (CADERS and IAGO) on first page of Google search, for their respected areas.

 

Game Design

• Created over 100 games, including world's worst board game. Games can be seen here: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/8933/richard-hutnik

• Multiple games were published in issue of Games Magazine during 2012-2013.

• Another game, Groups, published in the book “Connection Games” by Cameron Browne.

• Implementations of a number of my games on the computer can be found at:

http://games.wtanaka.com/simfour

http://superdupergames.org/gameinfo.html?game=groups

http://zillionsofgames.com/cgi-bin/zilligames/submissions.cgi?searchauthor=126

(I implemented a number of the zillionsofgames.com designs)

 

Coordinator and Liaison

• Coordinated quality assurance oversight on several projects concurrently.

• Organized, scheduled, took minutes, and facilitated meetings with project teams regarding SEI Levels 2 and 3.

• Liaison between management and ISO auditors.

• Received award for assisting department in obtaining ISO-9000 compliance.

• Held meetings with internal IBM customers.

• Acted as coordinator for multiple commercial helpdesks providing phone support for numerous IBM customers, involving Windows platforms and applications.

 

Software Development and Maintenance

• Created and maintained multiple web-based and stand-alone applications, including: a web-based helpdesk application, purchase order systems, and a factory floor control program.

• Gathered requirements.

• Supported a globally deployed web-based helpdesk application.

• Performed problem determination, and program maintenance.

• Coordinated with geographically disperse teams involved with development, test and support.

 

Website Development

• Implemented a web site, complete with forum, calendaring and games, for CADERS at caders.net.

• Set up a number of other IAGO related websites, and oversaw their integration into the current IAGOWeb.com site.

• Acted as webmaster for IAGO's websites.

 

Software Test

• Created and executed numerous functional and unit test cases involving auto provisioning, web helpdesk application, and a factory control program that integrated with SAP.

 

Operations

• Provided support for a team that supported over 700 diverse AIX based machines essential to IBM chip design development.

• Installed code, reconfigured, and migrated machines.

• Performed hardware diagnostics.

• Automated processes and improved operations.

• Installed Wintel-based servers and applications.

• Monitored numerous Wintel servers on network for various application and hardware problems, utilizing Tivoli Event Console.

• Worked with multiple teams to resolve technical problems.

• Acted as Webmaster for a number of IAGO websites.

• Provided end-user support for IBM and Apple customers, internal and external.

 

Writing and Documentation

• Updated standards documentation for division-wide QA standards database.

• Created, reviewed and modified documentation to meet ISO compliance.

• Documented technical problems and routed tickets to correct queue for resolution.

• Generated documentation involving designs and test plans.

• Created rules for over 100 games.

• Blog matters relating to games. Blog can be seen here:

http://boardgamegeek.com/blog/603/docreasons-designer-hq-rest-tbd

 

 

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/Me/NT 4.X/2000/XP/7/8, iOS, OS X, Unix (AIX Korn shell, Linux), MS-DOS, VMWare, Virtual PC, XWindows

Hardware Platforms: Wintel (Intel X86-based PCs), SP2, RS6000

Computer Languages: Visual Age C++, C, Visual Basic, C-Set++ for AIX, PERL, SQL, Korn shell, XML, Javascript, Java, HTML, Visual Basic (ASP)

Internet-Related Software: Dreamweaver, cPanel, Microsoft Frontpage, Websphere Application Studio Developer, CuteFTP, Blogger.com, Vanilla, GIMP

Additional Software: Lotus Notes, LoadLeveler, CMVC, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Adobe Acrobat, iLog, Tivoli Event Console, Tivoli Service Desk, Tivoli ThinkDynamic Intelligent Orchestrator, Novell, DB2, Citrix

Quality Standards: ISO 9000, SEI

 

 

PROFESSIONAL WORK HISTORY

Game Designer	Freelance	LaGrangeville, NY	2012 – Present
Subcontractor to Apple	Kelly Services	LaGrangeville, NY	2012 – 2013
Development Manager	IAGO	LaGrangeville, NY	2007 – 2011
Subcontractor, Part-time, & Self-employment	Various/Freelance	LaGrangeville, NY	2005 – 2007
Software Developer	IBM Global Services	Poughkeepsie, NY	2000 – 2004
Quality Assurance Coordinator	IBM Global Services	Poughkeepsie, NY	2002 – 2003
UNIX (AIX) System/Application Administrator	IBM Global Services	Poughkeepsie, NY	1998 – 2000

 

 

EDUCATION

Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science/Information Systems, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY

• Thesis: “Viability of Web Marketing and Sales” – Referenced by others on the Internet

 

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Management, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY

 

Associate of Science, (A.S.), Business Administration, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY