Bob has filled many roles in both publishing and development, and he has hands-on experience in virtually every aspect of the product pipeline.

Company Administration
From 1986 to 1989, Bob was the President of Challenge, Inc., an independent developer for Infocom. He was solely responsible for all business decisions related to the company.

From 1989 through 2002, Bob was the joint-CEO of Legend Entertainment, an independent developer and publisher which was acquired in 1998 by GT Interactive. His duties included Finance, HR, Legal, Business Development, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Product Development, including direct supervision of games in production. 

Bob was also a member of GT’s Product Acquisition Committee, evaluating and green-lighting games across their entire product line.

From July of 2002 to January of 2004, Bob was Legend’s sole Studio Head, with direct responsibility for the overall operations of this division of Atari.

From December 2010 to December 2012, Bob was the Chief Creative Officer for External Studios at Zynga, and from January 2013 to January 2014 he was Zynga’s only Design Fellow. In those roles he participated in the Greenlight Review meetings for the majority of Zynga’s games.

Product Development

Bob has been active in all phases of product development, including game design, writing, producing, programming, project management, art direction, QA supervision, localization, mocap direction, and voice direction. He has worked on games that have appeared on the PC, Apple II, Commodore 64, Amiga, Playstation, PS2, Xbox, PSP, Xbox360, PS3, and the Wii, as well as on iOS and Android mobile devices.

Bob has extensive experience both in creating original properties and in working with licensed franchises. He has not only worked with authors to adapt their existing worlds, but on one occasion he also co-created a new property with a prominent author, developing a series of NY Times bestselling books simultaneously with a game based upon them.

Directing both internal and external development teams worldwide, Bob has worked with a wide range of companies, from some of the smallest to some of the largest in the industry.

Bob has also worked in a wide range of genres, including Adventure, Action-adventure, Casual (mobile), FPS, RPG, MMORPG, RTS, TBS, 3D platformers, Social and Free-To-Play games.

As a consultant, Bob worked with companies in many countries, specializing in world-building, game design, level design, storytelling, character development, and general studio business development.

He also developed one of the first-ever “serious” games (for the US Department of Justice: Quandaries1997), and one of his later serious games, Project Raven, is used by U.S. agencies to teach critical thinking to senior intelligence analysts. 

At Zynga, Bob was “in the trenches” on the development of three major titles: FrontierVille, Empires & Allies, and Mafia Wars 2. In his roles as CCO and Design Fellow, he also sat on Zynga’s green-light committee and played an advisory role in the development of several of the company’s major titles.

Sales

Bob worked closely with the sales teams of Legend’s publishing partners, logging hundreds of thousands of miles on the road, making channel sales calls and participating in sales promotional events, both in the US and in Europe. He directly authorized MDF and SPIFF programs until he hired and supervised a Director of Sales who took on these duties.

Marketing & PR

From 1989 to 1998, Legend was responsible for its own Marketing and Public Relations. Bob supervised the Director of Marketing and the PR Manager, working with them to maintain good relationships with the industry press, and to develop and place advertising. Subsequently, Bob worked with external PR organizations and with Atari’s internal Marketing & PR groups in the US and in Europe to promote Legend’s products.