Thomas Hulvershorn

Angestellt, GameLead, Lotum GmbH
Hagen, Deutschland

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Projects
InSight
Resource Management
Scrum
Line Management
Quality Management
analytics
Jira
Product Management
Agile
Kanban
Hiring
Games
F2P
Economy Design
Data Visualisation
Python
R
SQL

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Thomas Hulvershorn

  • Bis heute 3 Jahre und 5 Monate, seit Feb. 2022

    GameLead

    Lotum GmbH
  • Bis heute 7 Jahre und 3 Monate, seit Apr. 2018

    Head of Analytics / Insights and Product Management Group

    Outplay Entertainment

    As the Insights and Product Management Group we identify opportunities for growth, we work with the business to prioritise our roadmaps, we track progress and we actively maximise the impact of our investments using data driven insights. • Leading a team of 6 Data Analysts / Scientists using Kanban to prioritise our work and continuously deliver high impact insights • Enabling Outplay Growth Teams to base their decision on reliable and insightful data Analysis

  • 5 Monate, Aug. 2021 - Dez. 2021

    Senior Product Manager

    InnoGames GmbH
  • 2 Jahre und 6 Monate, Nov. 2015 - Apr. 2018

    Analytics / Operations Manager

    Outplay Entertainment

    Direct Report to the CEO. Responsible for Goal settings / Progress monitoring and Decision making for the Outplay Support teams - DevOps - IT - Customer Support - Quality Assurance Supervising a team of 3 Managers, indirectly responsible for 35+ staff members. Analytics • Supervising a team of 6 Analysts • Regular reporting of KPIs that help Product, Design and Development to increase monetisation and retention

  • 2 Jahre und 1 Monat, Okt. 2013 - Okt. 2015

    Analytics and Operations Manager (Production)

    Outplay Entertainment

    Operations Management (Production) • Supervising 6 Producers (Senior, Associates) for 9 Titles on various Platforms (Mobile / Facebook) • Active Risk Management and project controlling • Initial Producer for Casual Game "Mystery Match" 11/2013 - 05/2014 Analytics • Supervising a team of 3 Analysts - Advanced visualisation and data exploration • Tool support and maintenance of existing scripts for ETL process

  • 11 Monate, Nov. 2012 - Sep. 2013

    Analytics and QA Manager

    Outplay Entertainment

    QA Management Analysis on a regular basis Analytics

  • 1 Jahr und 8 Monate, Apr. 2011 - Nov. 2012

    Director of QA & Certification / Deployment Operations

    Oberon Media

  • 1 Jahr und 5 Monate, Dez. 2009 - Apr. 2011

    Director of QA, Publishing

    Oberon Media

    Responsibilities: • Quality and Resource Management for our Publishing products on all platforms - PC Downloadable - iPhone / iPad, Windows Mobile and Android Games - Social Games on Facebook • Coordinating teams inside Oberon to define a sustainable technical infrastructure to support our Social Games Platform • Define requirements and best solution for Social Game Analytics in order to understand user behaviour and to adjust our development goals and roadmap accordingly

  • 2 Jahre und 5 Monate, Aug. 2007 - Dez. 2009

    QA Manager

    Oberon Media

    Quality Management • Responsible for the End to End QA process • Resource management and planning for all I-play QA departments in the US and Europe • Designing and implementing cost effective Testing procedures in order to cut down testing costs Project Management • Supervising and managing I-play porting projects • Constantly monitoring and balancing QA costs and time scales against the benefits of sufficient QA for all

  • 1 Jahr und 9 Monate, Nov. 2005 - Juli 2007

    QA Manager

    I-play

    Quality Management • Monitoring and improving the QA process with the effect that I-play’s QA costs for porting have been halved • Establishing and implementing a Company wide flexible Resource plan for European Porting projects • On site Recruitment and training of staff in offshore locations Project Management • Supervising and managing I-play porting projects Leadership Responsibilities: • Recruitment and training of QA Leads and Testers. • Full management responsibility for a team of dedicated Tester

  • 1 Jahr, Okt. 2004 - Sep. 2005

    QA Team Lead for Mobile Phone Game testing at I-play

    I-play

    Project Management • Running multiple projects simultaneously. • Leading Test projects from from Reference to Porting Leadership Responsibilities: • Recruitment of Testers. • Leading a team of dedicated Testers. • Training of Test Team in matters of testing mobile phone games and project management. • Staff appraisals

  • 5 Jahre und 1 Monat, Sep. 1999 - Sep. 2004

    QA Manager and Head of Business Unit 'FJA Test Factory'

    FJA Feilmeier & Junker GmbH

    Professional Responsibilities: • General FJA test management and methods for investigation and proper design of test cases. • Improvement and development of test automation for policy administration systems and actuarial core systems. • Conception, implementation and delivery of a two day FJA training course ‘Test Management’. Product Responsibilities: • Definition and implementation of Insurance Test Center (ITC) releases. • Preparation and conducting of ITC acquisitions including support of contract nego

  • 3 Jahre und 5 Monate, Apr. 1996 - Aug. 1999

    Testlead / Developer

    FJA Feilmeier & Junker GmbH

    Responsibilities: • Conception, design and implementation of customer needs into FJA standard software. • Conception and implementation of workable testing methods and test automation for actuarial testing. • Initial and further training and coordination of FJA and Customer project members. • Planning and implementing of professional workshops

  • 2 Jahre, Apr. 1994 - März 1996

    Software developer and Application designer

    Agrippina Lebensversicherung (Life Insurance company branch of http://www.zurich

    Responsibilities: • Development, programming and maintenance of a sales and service system for Front- and Back office use, including providing 3rd level support. • Transition of the actuarial core system to an object oriented design. • Conception and implementation of an extraction tool to provide certain contract characteristics. This enables further statistical analysis which supports the sales and product development departments.

Ausbildung von Thomas Hulvershorn

  • 1989 - 1993

    Physics

    Universität Hamburg

    Experimental Physics 1.0 (first class) in Solid State and Surface Physics Overall grade 1.6 (upper second class)

  • 1984 - 1989

    Physics

    Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Sprachen

  • Englisch

    Fließend

  • Deutsch

    Muttersprache

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