- Eric M. Scharf – founder of Scharf Creative Services
(SCS) – has been
involved in the greater software and interactive media industry
for studios, agencies, and corporations since 1991. He is well-established,
having collaborated in-house or remotely – as a permanent
resource or consultant – on domestic and international projects
and products for Brøderbund, Activision, Nova Logic, Sony Computer
Entertainment of America (SCEA), Midway Games, BreakAway, Ltd., SiTEL,
Ignition Entertainment, Google-Motorola Mobility, Inc, Publicis
Groupe, Mars, The Mosaic Company, and many others.
Through various capacities
– using agile, waterfall, and mixed methodologies – Eric
has helped build the distributed teams, engage the clients, frame the creative
concepts, outline the user experiences, shape the development
processes,
execute the launches, and guide the market presence for a wide
variety of software products, both domestic and international,
consumer and enterprise, entertainment and business, covering a
broad spectrum of genres, and spanning several mainstream
hardware platforms.
Production environments and hardware
platforms – with which Eric
is and has been familiar – include Apple (iOS / MacOS), Android
OS, Microsoft
Windows / Windows Mobile, Meta Quest, Pico, Super Nintendo / Nintendo GameCube,
Sega Genesis / Sega Saturn, Sony Playstation (1, 2, and 3),
Microsoft Xbox / Xbox 360, as well as proprietary location-based
entertainment (LBE) systems.
Production management software used by Eric
has included Perforce, Subversion, Confluence JIRA, Confluence WIKI,
various CMS's (Vignette, Umbraco, WordPress), Microsoft
Project, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft FrontPage, Microsoft
SharePoint, Microsoft Office365, Google Docs, Campaign Monitor, Redmine, Smartsheet, and
Various VPN & S/FTP clients.
Creative software tools,
CGI 3D packages, and real-time 3D environment
technology utilized by Eric have
included Gamebase USA Gamebryo, Unity, Epic Unreal Engine, Newtek LightWave 3D, Autodesk 3D Studio MAX, Nichimen Mirai,
Autodesk Maya,
Autodesk Softimage, AutoDesSys form•Z, Specular International Infini-D,
Impulse Inc. Imagine, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign.
Eric’s product delivery experience covers a range of commercial product types and themes, including
gaming software – AAA, XR (AR, MR, VR, and WebGL), entertainment, serious / simulation /
training, edutainment, casual, and mobile – and virtual worlds,
as well as digital business / marketing solutions (responsive,
CMS-based e-commerce sites, enterprise productivity software,
and gamification apps).
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