Matthew M. Goldman

For 20+ years I have led collaborative creative teams to deliver unforgettable gamer experiences!

Creating emotionally engaging, colorful, fun worlds is a fantastic occupation. 

Objectives:

Celebrate a 'players & fandoms first' philosophy.
Build a diverse, “AAA”, inter-disciplinary creative team in a high-performance organization.
Lead the creative team to align a compelling, cohesive, and comprehensive project vision.
Lead creative discipline experts within a shared vision of excellence to maximize their creative aspirations, contributions, and growth.
Collaborate with marketing, licensing & and community to create strong brand identities.

CONTACTS:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-goldman-80b3a01/

KEY Work ACHIEVEMENTS:

PUBG, Madison WI - Studio Art Director

JAN 2024 - present

It's secret cool stuff.

Riot Games, Los Angeles CA - Director of Art Management

MAR 2022 - JULY 2023

Slashed team attrition; Managed, coached, and grew a team of craft managers for League of Legends. 

Created visibility between teams, developed shared resources, and solved pipeline and communication problems.

Recruited, hired, and onboarded 12 new team members to deliver “ARENA” one of the largest League of Legends events in years. 

KoGo Studio, Edmonton AB - Owner

JAN 2022 - PRESENT

Various Clients

Original IP development for co-development and unannounced Unreal 5 project.

Pitches for venture capitalist groups and government grants.

Graphic design and team building consultant for a successful online brands company.

BioWare Electronic Arts, Edmonton AB - Creative Director

NOV 2017 - DEC 2021 

Built, mentored, and motivated a diverse multidisciplinary creative team.

Enriched the Dragon Age universe with novels, comics, merch, and a 6-part animated Netflix series.

Propelled “Dragon Age: Dreadwolf” (aka Veilguard) from inception to green light status. 

Partnered with consumer insights, UXR, marketing, branding, and player councils to create a cohesive player-facing comms strategy.

BioWare Electronic Arts, Edmonton AB, - Senior Art Director

FEB 2009 - OCT 2017

Led the creative team to ideate, develop, and deliver GotY “Dragon Age: Inquisition”.

Built, mentored, and motivated the Dragon Age art team.

We created a distinctive franchise, working with external partners to create memorabilia, movies, “Heroes” mobile game, and graphic novels.

Microsoft Game Studios, Dallas TX - Art Lead

JAN 2005 - FEB 2009

Helped bring the multiplayer RTS genre to the X360 console exclusive "Halo Wars”.

BioWare Corp, Edmonton, AB - Art Director

JULY 2002 - DEC 2005

Developed BioWare's first original IP - “Jade Empire”.

Education:

B.F.A Visual Communications, Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD)

Hobbies:

Art, drawing, modelling.

Hockey: Wing/ Goalie SWCAHL "Jets"

Music: Bass for "Shred of Dignity" https://www.shredofdignity.ca/

Reading, Walking, Cycling, On-line Learning

Knots and fieldcraft.