Jason 'Opie' Babo

Jason 'Opie' Babo Video game industry veteran. CONTACT INFO Phone: - Address: R. Prof. José Magalhães Aguiar, N35 2 ESQ TRAS- Marco de Canaveses, PORTUGAL Website: jasonbabo.com Email: - With nearly 20 years of experience in the video game industry, I have had the privilege to be involved in exciting projects, build life-changing tools for content creators, as well as work with some of the most talented people in the industry. A greater part of my career has been focused exclusively on working directly with people as either a team manager, community manager, talent developer, or consultant. This is where my strengths lie. Helping people achieve their highest potential is what I love to do, and every day I have had the opportunity to do that. I thrive on it. SKILLS & EXPERTISE EXPERIENCE Talent Development & Management, Community Management, Project Management, Account Management, Customer Support, Quality Control, Esports and Livestream Production, Web Development, System Administration, Text-based Game Design and Administration, Photography, Networking, Monetization, Localization WarcraftMovies.com SEPTEMBER 2017 - PRESENT Owner / Site Manager After years of negotiation, I was able to acquire WarcraftMovies.com. A project I loved working on back in 2008. I am now the owner of this project and all it's network sites and domains. Twitch 2012 - 2017 Partnerships Manager, Development Considered as one of the most experienced video game streaming professionals, I was hired by Twitch to focus mainly on managing partnerships and talent development. What this means is, I get to use my strong people skills and work closely with content creators to help them reach their full potential. This type of talent development work has been very rewarding, as some of Twitch's biggest streamers today are content creators I have worked closely with for many years. Being able to see them evolve into household names, successful entrepreneurs and business owners, and celebrities in a sense, has made me very proud of what I do. WearTesters.com APRIL 2015 - PRESENT Digital Consultant Working closer with the owner and founder of WearTesters.com, I have helped WearTesters adopt a better back-end and server infrastructure, as well as socieal media and SEO practices. Now the focus has been on advertisement and finding ways to reach a larger audience. LFM Corporate 2011 - 2013 Digital Consultant Was hired again by LFM Corporate as a Digital Consultant, as they required my experience to build out strategies for new products they were working on, as well as innovating some of their old products and systems. own3D Entertainment GmbH 2010 - 2012 Director of Community & Customer Support This position allowed me to lead and manage the development of a very new video game streaming community, as well as create a team to provide quality support to the content creators and users of the service. Video game streaming at this time was still a pretty uncommon thing, so being there in its infancy was very rewarding, allowing me to shape the video game streaming industry that we have today. LFM Corporate 2010 - 2011 Project Manager Was hired to help create and build out a new IT department. That included helping recruit developers, designers, translators, and marketing professionals to cover the multiple teams inside the department. Ensidia Lead Developer / Administrator / Community Manager 2009 - 2010 Was hired to build the investor funded website of popular, sponsored, and investor funded World of Warcraft guild Ensidia. The site was complex, as it was a fully fledged community site that allowed users to register, own detailed profiles, write blog posts, create and share photo galleries, create and maintain groups, and interract via comments and a build in chat system. Machinima Entertainment Sweden AB 2008 - 2009 Key Account Manager / Lead Administrator / Community Manager Key Account Manager at Machinima Entertainment Sweden AB as well as the Lead Administrator, Moderator, and Community Manager for Machinima Entertainment's WarcraftMovies.com, WarhammerMovies.com, AoCMovies.com, Machinima101.com and MMORPGForum.com. Blizzard Entertainment 2007 - 2008 Specialist Game Master / Game Master / Customer Support Moved to Paris, France to work on the biggest MMORPG World of Warcraft. Started as a Game Master, providing Customer Support to players. Was quickly promoted to Specialist Game Master, which allowed me to deal with much more complex issues, giving me the opportunity to have a bigger impact on how I was able to assist players. Alchemic Dream 2006 - 2007 Assistant Project Manager / Senior Game Master / Customer Support Started as a Customer Support representative for multiple MMORPGs such as RF Online and Seed. I quickly became a Senior Game Master due to my quality and efficiency. Was offered the Assistant Project Manager role for Lord of the Rings Online, which meant I managed and led a team of over 65 Customer Service Reps/Game Masters located around the world. The team covered English, French, and German support. One of my most important tasks was organizing the support schedule, making sure all languages were covered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Design Binário 2003 - 2006 Lead Web Developer & System Administrator Created hundreds of websites as a full-stack developer, as well as maintained the multiple systems that ran every website. InforProText 2002 - 2003 Transcriber As a Transcriber in this law firm, I was known as the fastest and most efficient transcriber in the company. I also developed a few internal tools to automate certain tasks for the team. Media and Games Online Network (MGON) 2000 - 2003 Community Manager As a part-time worker, I was able to lead the localization project of MGON and all it's assets to Portuguese, as well as manage the Portuguese community. Laboratórios Fotográficos do Marco (City Lab) 2000 - 2002 Photo Technician / Lead Developer Created the company's first website, which included an online store. This was rare for Portugal during this time. The site went on to win a national innovation award. As a Photo Technician, I worked exclusively with all sorts of photography. As the Lead Developer, I worked on creating internal tools to automate certain tasks for the team. Cinemas da Praça 1999 - 2000 Lead Projectionist Led a small team of projectionists. I was one of the youngest cinema projectionists in the country. LANGUAGES English (Native), Portuguese (Fluent), Spanish (Proficient) PROJECTS Funcity 1998 - PRESENT https://funcity.org Since 1998, Funcity has given hundreds of users the opportunity to run their own online services. The goal is to offer free shell accounts to people who may not have access to one otherwise. With this shell account, users can create MUDs, talkers, web pages, or many other online applications. tbaMUD 2000 - PRESENT https://tbamud.com tbaMUD is an acronym for The Builder Academy Multi User Dungeon. We use it to mean both the Academy for training new builders and the codebase that is made freely available to the community. tbaMUD is the continued development of the codebase formerly known as CircleMUD. Our vision is to provide the MUDding community a stable and functional codebase that is ready to be molded into a custom MUD by its coders and builders. We also provide multiple resources to allow for feedback, contribution, and the sharing of ideas within the MUDding community to ensure constant development and improvements. Armazém Digital 2001 - PRESENT http://armazemdigital.net Armazém Digital is a portuguese service that provides web hosting that includes cPanel, PHP, MySQL, Email, and much more.