Location Santa Monica, California, United States Regions Greater Los Angeles Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male Also Known As Tin Lloyd
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Justin is an entrepreneurial serial CTO with more than 35 years in the business of software development, 20 of which include leading cross-functional teams at an executive level of Chief Technology Officer or VP of Engineering. His career spans video games, web services, digital consumer products, desktop applications and tools. As a veteran
technology leader he has developed and delivered almost 60 distinct game titles on 26 game platforms and been responsible for the design and project management of more than 150 casino games both online and at physical casino locations in the social casino and real-money gambling industries. He has worked on franchises such as Civilization, Pitfall, Hotwheels, Tyco, Star Wars, Shrek and Battletanx and with Disney, Lucasarts, Activision, Mattel, DreamWorks and SONY as clients. Justin has extensive experience in all aspects of the software development lifecycle as an executive and as a hands-on engineer for consumer facing commercial software, ecommerce websites, B2B and B2C services and technology, and several other types of digital and physical products.
In the past 15 years he has singularly developed more than a dozen ecommerce websites, collectively generating mid-six figures per day at their peak. His greatest website development success to date was a virtual social casino that sold to Vivendi Universal for $248M. On the casino website he developed five of the six front-end game clients that powered more than 100 networked social casual casino games, the game server and database back-end architecture and technology stack, secure transaction protocols and the website itself. The last three websites he personally developed were sold for $2.6M.
He has directly worked for a total of 12 start-ups, as employee, founder or co-founder in California, Washington, England, Wales, Belgium and Germany. Six of the start-ups he was either sole founder or co-founder. He has experience as a technology consultant and mentor to several more start-ups. He has an entrepreneurial mindset and puts the delivery of a final, working product above all other priorities.
* Serial CTO and entrepreneur with a huge amount of start-up and start-up growth experience
* Creating $800+ Million in revenue for companies and clients
* Cross functional team leadership for multiple projects with a strong background in hands-on Software Development
* Superior verbal and written communication skills and public speaker.
* Guest speaker or guest lecturer at USC, UCLA, Westwood College, Art Institute, Lutheran University, University of Wales, University of Glamorgan, etc
* Regularly submits proposals to technology conferences
* Panellist, presenter or roundtable host at E4All Conference and Expo, Hollywood and Games Summit, IEEE ISM Conference, IEEE GS Summit, Video Game Legends, Game Developer Conference, World SF Convention, and many more
* Has taught classes at several colleges covering subjects such as Game Engines, 3D Rendering Pipelines, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics for Game Developers and Physics for Game Developers
* Motivated team player, contributing to multiple projects across a variety of disciplines
* Multiple awards by the games industry including awards and recognition by the state of California and the US Federal government
* Published writer for print and web for almost a decade on topics covering game development, software development and business development
* Regular participant in hackathon events
* Member of a number of programme advisory committees such as Art Institute and Westwood College
* Regular networker and attendee of technology meet ups within the Greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas
* Past-Chapter Leader and organizer of the Los Angeles International Game Developers Association Chapter for four years
* Has launched and successfully organized several technology focused group meet ups with attendance numbers in the hundreds
