United States

UI/ Visual Design

Game Design

Generalist Product Management

Interaction Design

Content Strategy

Full Sail University

Drexel University

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Ted DiNola

Developer Relations Engineer

Product strategy

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Game programming

Product roadmap

Salesforce

Unity

Unreal Engine

Adobe Photoshop

JavaScript

Empathy

Team player

Project management

Public Speaking

Analytical skills

Content creation

Partnership

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Providing deep dive technical and design guidance for Quest titles, from pitch through launch and beyond. Working with our internal teams to set goals that support developer success. Spending lots of time in a headset. Reaching out to developers globally to help them align their strengths and core competencies with VR and MR.

Worked alongside a small team to build Wattam, a multi-platform game about friendship and connection. Spent lots of time playing with toys to ideate on interesting physical interactions.

(Wattam, Luna)

Led a small team building a massively-multiplayer cooperative shmup funded entirely by a nascent cloud gaming startup. Made it two milestones before that company collapsed.

(And I'll Form The Head, unreleased)

Served as one of three leads for a team that eventually scaled up to over 20 folks. Built an LGBTQ+ Bubblegum-Cyberpunk Adventure game that, despite being a niche-of-a-niche thing did quite successful by self-published standards.

(2064: Read Only Memories)

Contributed to front end development for a successful mobile slots game. Gave in to my lack of motivation for working in social mobile games.

(MyVegas Slots)

Worked on an upcoming mobile title in the FarmVille franchise. Spun up the team on the Unity engine, and used it both to build core systems, as well as rapidly prototype features for play testing. Collaborated with core services to author multiple new core Unity systems for use across the company.

(Farmville 2 Mobile, but the one that didn't release)

Developed core gameplay systems for a Virtual 3D Patient for use in nursing education, working alongside subject matter experts and medical professionals to support realistic simulations of physical diagnostic techniques.

(Digital Clinical Experiences™)

Lead programmer and designer for several mobile titles for the mobile division "Puppy Punch Productions". Worked closely with art lead and production team, as well as mentoring interns to assist in rapidly iterating multiple platform versions for our titles. Shipped 5 titles in less than one year.

(A Game With Balls, Colourbind, Chicken Coup, two other things lost to the sands of early app stores)

Made a bunch of iOS games when the App Store was young. Some of them even did alright!

(A Game With Balls [Original release])

I assisted in a wide range of capacities, including testing, debugging, asset preparation, data entry, scripting, tool assisted editing, and making tea.

(Sword of the Stars: A Murder of Crows, Sword of the Stars: Argos Naval Yards)

Ted DiNola🇺🇸