Adam Martin

Current

• CEO at Red Glasses

Past

• Silent at Stealthy Stealth
• Head of technology/development in Europe at NCsoft
• Network Lead / Principal Programmer at Codemasters

• CTO at Mind Candy
• CEO at Grex Games
• Lead Developer at Jumpleads
• Founder / Lead Consultant at JAX Consulting
• Developer at IBM

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Adam Martin’s Summary

My current role is founder of a high-quality iPhone consultancy: we make apps for large companies and brands ... twice as quickly and at half the cost of most agencies. If you need help with your iPhone strategy - especially if you're a non-tech company - feel free to get in touch.

I've co-founded a couple of startups, I've been the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) for a couple of companies, and I've done lots of project management and sales along the way. I frequently advise or consult on MMO (online games) business and tech issues, and on project-management using Scrum.

My last "normal" job was for a large multinational, where I started a new dev studio, performed due-diligence on external funding, and lead internal development.

Most popular blog posts:
- Kongregate’s ratings, rankings, and reputation systems
- We need to talk about Tabula Rasa; when will we talk about Tabula Rasa?
- Entity Systems are the future of MMOG development
- May 2009: Survey of iPhone Developers

Unlisted / volunteer work:
- organized business-plan competitions (helping startups get off the ground with up to $100,000 cash)
- judged game-development competitions
- founded/chaired the IGDA's Alternate Reality Games SIG

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Adam Martin’s Specialties:

Strategy, Scrum, Viral Marketing, Project Management, Contract Negotiation, Systems Architecture, Funding rounds, Programming, Consulting, Alternate Reality Games, MMOG, System Architect, Development, Design

Adam Martin’s Experience

• Silent

  Stealthy Stealth

  (Computer Games industry)

  2008 — May 2009 (1 year )

  Mass-market Education. Social Games. Learning is fun, but how do you help people see that for themselves? Learning is entirely internal, but how do you give people the power to be in charge of their own education?

• Head of technology/development in Europe

  NCsoft

  (Public Company; Computer Games industry)

  January 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 7 months)

  Helped to build the first European development studio for NCsoft, starting from just myself and Ken Malcolm. Big thanks also to Alys Elwick and Rene Reichert for all their hard work helping make this happen!
  
  Oversaw internal development on PS3 and PC MMO projects, and internal technology projects (tools), as well as performing all technical due dilligence on external development (tech recommendations on funding pitches, reviewing project milestones for games in development).
  
  Member of the US/EU Social Networking Steering Group analysing the effect on NCsoft's business (game design, technology, and marketing) of new trends in social networking and social gaming, and making proposals to the US and EU executive management on what to do about this.
  
  Many brilliant people joined us in Brighton to be part of this dev studio. I highly recommend hiring as many of them as you can.

• Network Lead / Principal Programmer

  Codemasters

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Games industry)

  September 2006 — November 2006 (3 months)

  Lead for Network/Multiplayer and Online Systems for an upcoming next gen title.
  
  Also designed company-wide infrastructure for integrating all games with online micropayments, in-game content-delivery, and in-game advertising systems.

• CTO

  Mind Candy

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

  January 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 8 months)

  Oversaw design and development of two major systems (an internal development/publishing/workflow system and the cluster of game servers for Perplex City) and delivery of many dozens of minor websites and casual games.

• CEO

  Grex Games

  (Computer Games industry)

  2001 — 2005 (4 years )

  Founded company during dot-com crash, turned down investment offers of upwards of $1million because valuation was stupidly low, then watched every potential investor drop like dominos or go bust. Doh.
  
  Kept the company alive long enough to wind it up without debt, but nothing more.

• Lead Developer

  Jumpleads

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

  Short fixed-term contract to develop POS systems for the retail outlets, ended up also designing and building a real-time screen-scraping and price-replacing system for 5 websites (including Amazon and Firebox).

• Founder / Lead Consultant

  JAX Consulting

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  May 1998 — April 1999 (1 year )

  IT Consultancy based in London, specializing in designing and implementing end-to-end content-management systems and tech outsourcing for SME's from 20-75 employees.

• Developer

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years )

  IBM Hursley - SSA labs, and DirectTalk test-team

Additional Information

Adam Martin’s Groups:

igda, ARG SIG, PUE, Alternate Reality Games SIG, Virtual worlds panel, GDC, TheChaosEngine

•    LOGIN
•    Association of Virtual Worlds
•    First Tuesday
•    Casual Games
•    Cambridge University Entrepreneurs
•    Digital Marketing
•    iPhone Developers - www.iPhoneintouch.com
•    Free 2 Play Assembly
•    Cambridge University Alumni Group
•    Alternate Reality Games
•    VirtualWorlds
•    Virtual World, MMO, Video and Online Game Consultants
•    Enternships
•    Kids MMOG and Virtual Worlds
•    London iPhone Developer Group
•    Brighton iPhone Creators
•    TwitJobs
•    Digital Marketing - London
•    JobStore UK - Jobs for iPhone Developers
•    London iPhone Publishers and Developers meetup
•    Young Enterprise London
•    Bay Area Games Network

Adam Martin’s Honors:

Finalist, Cambridge Enterprise Conference 6, 2004
Finalist, Cambridge Enterprise Conference 5, 2003
Finalist, Cambridge 50k Business plan competition, 2001
Finalist, CIMA Universities Business Challenge, 2000

Adam Martin’s Contact Settings

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