"In the AlphaLab offices on East Carson Street, there is something infectious in the air — optimism. Geraldine Yong, CEO of LeftRight Studios, says starting a tech company during a recession is tough, but has its upside, too." - Pittsburgh Business Times
Jesse is the CEO of Pittsburgh's largest videogame studio, Schell Games (www.schellgames.com), the author of award winning book The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses (www.artofgamedesign.com), and the former chairman of the International Game Developers Association (www.idga.org).
Prior to starting Schell Games in 2004, Jesse was the Creative Director of the Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio, where he worked and played for seven years as designer, programmer and manager on several projects for Disney theme parks and DisneyQuest, as well as on Toontown Online, the first massively multiplayer game for kids.
Jesse is also on the faculty of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University where he teaches classes in Game Design and serves as advisor on several innovative projects. In 2004, he was named one of the world's Top 100 Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT's magazine of innovation.
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