Kevin Ekstrom
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Daniel Cohn-Postar
Kevin designed an excellent Email Builder tool for our Content Department. He's a great designer and adept at explaining how to use the tool he designed Not only did the tool produce excellent emails with varied template sections, it was attractive, pleasant and simple to use on the backend. After demonstrating the tool, Kevin was attentive to our questions and revised needs rapidly incorporating our constructive criticism and feature requests into subsequent builds of his tool in a matter of days. Kevin's an intelligent coworker with an excellent work ethic, and a strong asset to any team or company he works with. Hire Kevin to execute complex projects, or build tools tools and sites with stellar ease-of use to your exact specifications. He knows exactly what he's doing, and his tools work. I'd work with Kevin again, and I should be so lucky to use tools as good as the ones he's designed in my time working with him.
Daniel Cohn-Postar
Kevin designed an excellent Email Builder tool for our Content Department. He's a great designer and adept at explaining how to use the tool he designed Not only did the tool produce excellent emails with varied template sections, it was attractive, pleasant and simple to use on the backend. After demonstrating the tool, Kevin was attentive to our questions and revised needs rapidly incorporating our constructive criticism and feature requests into subsequent builds of his tool in a matter of days. Kevin's an intelligent coworker with an excellent work ethic, and a strong asset to any team or company he works with. Hire Kevin to execute complex projects, or build tools tools and sites with stellar ease-of use to your exact specifications. He knows exactly what he's doing, and his tools work. I'd work with Kevin again, and I should be so lucky to use tools as good as the ones he's designed in my time working with him.
Daniel Cohn-Postar
Kevin designed an excellent Email Builder tool for our Content Department. He's a great designer and adept at explaining how to use the tool he designed Not only did the tool produce excellent emails with varied template sections, it was attractive, pleasant and simple to use on the backend. After demonstrating the tool, Kevin was attentive to our questions and revised needs rapidly incorporating our constructive criticism and feature requests into subsequent builds of his tool in a matter of days. Kevin's an intelligent coworker with an excellent work ethic, and a strong asset to any team or company he works with. Hire Kevin to execute complex projects, or build tools tools and sites with stellar ease-of use to your exact specifications. He knows exactly what he's doing, and his tools work. I'd work with Kevin again, and I should be so lucky to use tools as good as the ones he's designed in my time working with him.
Daniel Cohn-Postar
Kevin designed an excellent Email Builder tool for our Content Department. He's a great designer and adept at explaining how to use the tool he designed Not only did the tool produce excellent emails with varied template sections, it was attractive, pleasant and simple to use on the backend. After demonstrating the tool, Kevin was attentive to our questions and revised needs rapidly incorporating our constructive criticism and feature requests into subsequent builds of his tool in a matter of days. Kevin's an intelligent coworker with an excellent work ethic, and a strong asset to any team or company he works with. Hire Kevin to execute complex projects, or build tools tools and sites with stellar ease-of use to your exact specifications. He knows exactly what he's doing, and his tools work. I'd work with Kevin again, and I should be so lucky to use tools as good as the ones he's designed in my time working with him.
Experience
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GameWorks, Inc.
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United States
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Entertainment Providers
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Web Developer
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Apr 2021 - Present
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Web Developer
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May 2018 - Mar 2021
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Wargaming
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Cyprus
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Computer Games
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700 & Above Employee
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Web Project Manager/Developer
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Oct 2016 - Apr 2018
- Managed and programmed update of the player-rewarding system to version 2.0, which now sees >100,000 monthly users (>1M lifetime) and has resulted in a large increase in player lifetime- Oversaw the development of several player-facing websites, including the official website of 2 AAA titles (Total War Arena - inactive, pending further game development; and one un-announced title).- Developed the official Wargaming America corporate page, including full Content Management System (scheduled to go live in Feb 2018).- Built an automated Player Toxicity Mitigation tool, reducing support staff daily workload for the task by >95%.- Created a template-based email builder for CRM/marketing emails, reducing time to create emails >90% by making generation a simple data-entry task. Show less
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Product Manager
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Mar 2015 - Oct 2016
- Developed and ran a full-featured Fantasy League for the WGL Professional Gaming League, which helped multiply the viewing audience for NA by 4 times year-over-year.- Developed a player-reward system designed to increase player activity, retention, and spending.- Managed community staff to oversee Clan activity for the North America region, including the launch of Clan Wars 2.x.- Built a tournament matchmaking system (based on the Glicko 2 rating system) to match players with others who are near their skill level, and also separate newer players from those experienced in tournament play.- Developed several internal programs to help Wargaming Staff improve efficiency. Show less
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Product Specialist (Clans/Clan Wars)
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Jun 2013 - Mar 2015
- Developed World of Tanks playerbase into the highest ratio of clan-player-to-total-players in the game's history for the NA region.- Increased average monetization of a player in a clan to the highest level in the game's history for the NA region.- Created and maintained several recurring events with an audience in the ten-thousands.- Coded a third-party missions system as an add-on to the Clan Wars feature for World of Tanks, which formed the basis of an integrated feature of the game.- Aided developers in working out many flaws in the Clan Wars 1.x system, as well as implementing (and preventing) additional features, which would go on to be described by players as the best version of the game. Show less
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Assistant Director
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May 2011 - Jun 2013
- Managed a staff of approximately 15 employees at any given time. - Operated one of 5 summer camps for children aged 6-12 (up to 60 at a time, 100+ in a season). - Planned all camp activities, including off-site trips, weekly theme days, coordination with parents, accommodations for children with special needs, etc. - Managed a staff of approximately 15 employees at any given time. - Operated one of 5 summer camps for children aged 6-12 (up to 60 at a time, 100+ in a season). - Planned all camp activities, including off-site trips, weekly theme days, coordination with parents, accommodations for children with special needs, etc.
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Education
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2005 - 2010
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
B.S. Aviation Human Factors, Aviation, Informatics
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