Victor
Meinert

Acceleration Agency

• —Deployed three fully functional client AI prototypes across enterprise and education: a collectables inventory and management platform; an NFC-based alert and notification mobile app; a video processing agent for educational SEO metadata. Full stack prototyping through natural language prompting.
• —Client-embedded research and requirements development identified workflow friction points, mapped real-world operations and opportunities, and architected proof-of-concept systems that validate AI delivery before production scale.
• —Built end-to-end pipeline infrastructure supporting iterative agentic prototyping and deployment across client engagements.

Digital Insight Games

• —Brought in to stabilize and lead a development team through a critical transition period, inheriting an unstable build, a high-defect pipeline, and a team in need of renewed direction and leadership structure.
• —Retrofitted the entire development process to a disciplined 1-month agile release cadence, increasing feature release output by 30% and reducing defects by 80%.
• —Revitalized team culture, driving improvements in morale, collaboration, ownership, and accountability across a team of 15 plus 3 outsource vendors.
• —Stabilized the mainline build and extended the production pipeline to support live operations and ongoing feature development.
• —Identified core loop friction points through live user testing and drove a focused UX polish initiative that measurably improved first-session intuitiveness across a MOBA/RTS hybrid.
• —Implemented a continuous live user testing program, integrating player insights directly into the active development backlog.
• —Successfully launched into Pre-release closed testing (EU territories) with 30–50 active testers.
• —Managed full Steam and Epic Games Store launches, including storefront buildout, ESRB certification, pentesting, legal framework, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy.
• —Built the publisher and investor pitch deck and outreach strategy, targeting 45+ publishers and investors.
• —Researched GDPR compliance requirements and delivered product change recommendations to ensure regulatory alignment.

The Acceleration Agency

• —12-year independent consulting practice embedded with clients across games, SaaS, enterprise, IoT, and nonprofit sectors.
• —Served as principal client relationship owner and hands-on product development lead — responsible for UX design, user research, requirements development, team leadership, backlog management, budgets, contracts, distributed resource management, and release execution.
• —Selected clients: Carnival Corporation, COTALand/Circuit of the Americas, Disney Connected Learning, The Access Partnership, INVI Mind Health, Rallyhood, Aspyr Media, Ustudio, Rawdon Saunders School for Dyslexia, International AAA Game Studio (NDA).

Disney Interactive Studios Playdom

• —Co-founded and led a new Disney Interactive studio in Austin, growing the team to 35 and managing a ~$4M studio P&L.
• —Assumed live operations ownership of My Vineyard (Facebook social game), managing ongoing development and structured sunset.
• —Conceived and developed an original experimental social game with MMO elements, taking it through live geo-testing.
• —Led early-stage development of a new multiplayer title based on a marquee Marvel IP.
• —Established and scaled a 45-person outsource art content pipeline in Russia, including contract negotiation, art approval workflows, and full integration pipelines.
• —Responsible for talent acquisition, facilities, day-to-day operations, 3rd party outsourcing, budgets, content pipelines, and agile cross-discipline collaboration.

Austin Personal Rapid Transit

• —Co-founded an urban transit startup developing a personal rapid transit solution for the Austin market, securing $250K in initial seed funding.
• —Developed pitch materials and participated directly in investor and client presentations.
• —Engaged the University of Texas at Austin Provost Office as a prospective anchor client, advancing to active discussions before the initiative concluded due to funding constraints.

NCsoft Austin

• —Co-founded Destination Games alongside Richard Garriott (creator of Ultima) and Starr Long, scaling from founding to acquisition by NCsoft in under 6 months.
• —Progressed through Art Director, Art Production Director, and Producer roles across the full development lifecycle of an innovative combat MMO that shipped to live service.
• —Led the agile transformation of a 150+ person studio from waterfall, transitioning all active teams to a fully agile, sprint-based workflow.
• —Orchestrated a motion capture outsourcing pipeline delivering 500+ animation assets in 8 months.
• —Built and operated a proprietary outsource art production network spanning 4 locations: an internal studio of 60 in Beijing, two California-based studios (9 and 15), and NCsoft HQ in Seoul — totaling ~85+ managed heads internationally.