ahmad jadallah
Award Winning Game Director, Creative generalist, Developer, Public Speaker, Adviser, and Consultant
An MBA graduate from the American University in Dubai, Ahmad is the Director of Development at Semaphore Studios in Riyadh since its founding back in 2010, overseeing the production of games, multimedia and virtual reality projects for Mobile, Desktop and Next-Gen Consoles (PS4/PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X).
Ahmad is a regular speaker and advocate of local game development at universities and exhibitions such as ArabNet, Saudi Comic-Con, Mobily Developer Conference and Gitex Dubai. He served as an advisory board member for the Dubai Game Expo and a judge in Hackathon Arabia 2017 competition.
Ahmad's early portfolio included the production of an award winning web browser titled "Yahadi Browser" which captured the attention of numerous media channels including TV, Radio and Newspapers locally and internationally such as (BBC World, CNBC Arabia and Dubai TV).
result oriented
FROM CONCEPT TO MARKET, ON SCHEDULE AND BUDGET
10 SHIPPED TITLES
During the past ten years I shipped ten titles to the market in addition to several prototypes, in-production projects, client based and device based projects and 3D Animations.
30 SKUS
The titles I shipped were published on Steam, Mac App Store, iOS, Google Play, Ouya, Game Stick, nVidia Shield, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.
INDUSTRY RECOGNITION
- 2 Titles featured as part of PlayStation Plus.
- Featured by Apple, nVidia, QualComm, Huawei, PlayStation, Stage Interview by PC Gamer at E3 2016
SKILLS
Market Research
Team Building
Ideation and Brainstorming
Project
Management
Outsourcing
Game/Level Design
Technology Stack
Console Development
Optimization
Publishing
AWARDS
Winner of the 2002 Young E-Achievement Award in Middle East presented by H.R.H Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Winner of the 2003 King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) Award. First place award winner in the Kingdom wide National Competition for Computer Skills competition. First place award winner in the Kingdom wide Central Competition for Computer Programming in 2002 presented by Prince Ahmad bin Abdulaziz. First place award winner in the Fifth Exhibition for Student Innovations – Programming division in 2001. Second place award winner in the United Arab Emirates qualification round for the World Wide Microsoft Imagine Cup 2007. Second place award winner in the Zayed University E-Biz Challenge for business plans in 2005. First place award winner in the Ajman University business challenge. Finalist in the pan Arab “Arabian Business Challenge” in 2006.
MEDIA
RESUME
You can download my resume here