Sam Shields Email & Phone Number
Game Design Research Lead @ IDEO
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Sam Shields Location
- Burlingame, CA, US
Sam Shields Work
- Game Design Research Lead @ (June 2026 - Present)
- Founder @ (March 2026 - Present)
- Graduate Researcher @ Alternative Learning Technologies (ALT) and Games Lab (September 2021 - April 2026)
- Data Analyst on the Applied AI Team @ (June 2024 - August 2024)
- Senior Technical Product Manager @ (March 2018 - September 2021)
- Open Banking Developer Evangelist @ (March 2017 - March 2018)
- Innovation Lab Product Owner @ (December 2016 - March 2017)
- Frontend Developer Lead @ (April 2016 - December 2016)
- Full Stack Developer @ (July 2015 - April 2016)
- Undergraduate Researcher @ Washington University in St. Louis (January 2014 - May 2015)
- Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Washington University in St. Louis (August 2012 - May 2015)
- Technology Leadership Program 10-Week Analyst @ (June 2014 - August 2014)
- Web Development Intern @ Lookiyer (July 2013 - November 2013)
- Junior Engineer @ Evtron Inc. (June 2013 - August 2013)
Sam Shields Education
- University of California, Santa Cruz
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (Computational Media)
2021-2026 - University of California, Santa Cruz
Masters of Science - MS (Computational Media)
2021-2023 - Washington University in St. Louis
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (Computer Science)
2011-2015
Sam Shields Skills
- Academic Research
- Agile Methodologies
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Authentication
- Cybersecurity
- Designer Tooling
- Developers
- Evolutionary Algorithms
- Game AI
- Game Balance
- Game Balancing
- Game Design
- Gameplay Programming
- Games Production
- Games Research
- Games User Experience
- Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- JavaScript
- Mentoring
- Parametric Design
- Procedural Content Generation
- Product Development
- Product Management
- Project Management
- Prototyping
- Python (Programming Language)
- Research and Development (R&D)
- Scholarly Research
- Serious Games
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Software Development
- Systems Design
- Systems Engineering
- Unity
- User Experience (UX)
- Video Game Production
- Web Development
- Worldbuilding
Sam Shields Summary
- Sam Shields, based in Burlingame, CA, US, is currently a Game Design Research Lead at IDEO. Sam Shields brings experience from previous roles at Shields Games and Research, Alternative Learning Technologies (ALT) and Games Lab , Zynga and Lifion by ADP. Sam Shields holds a 2021 - 2026 Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Computational Media @ University of California, Santa Cruz. With a robust skill set that includes Academic Research, Agile Methodologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Authentication, Cybersecurity and more. Sam Shields has 1 emails and 2 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.
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