MIKER RIVERO

• Currently working as the Head of Project management for Games and App Development, a part of Innovation and Business Development Group under Digital Media Division under ABS-CBN Corporation. This division focuses on producing innovative applications that could be in a form of a utility or entertainment softwares for mobile or the web.

• Has led the Art Department team of Kuju Manila in producing art assets for AAA games in multiple platforms such as Android, Iphone, Ipod Touch, Wii, Xbox 360, PS2, PS3 and PC. All game projects are coordinated with other umbrella studios of Kuju Entertainment, one of the biggest game development company in Europe.

• Has played a major role in producing Circus Games, this is the first ever originally and locally developed Wii console game in the Philippines and it was also the first Filipino game ever published by a world renowned triple A publisher, Ubisoft.

• Also managed the Matahari Studios’ Art Department, in developing an arcade ball toss video game entitled “Big Top”. Matahari Studio and its’ games are under the propriety of LAI games, an Australian arcade game publishing company which also owns Timezone across the globe.

• Worked as an Art Director for the critically acclaimed First Ever Filipino RPG - PC video game, “Anito: Defend A Land Enraged” which won grand recognitions at the Independent Games Festival and Game Tunnel in 2004. This project earned him credits as a pioneer in the history of Philippine Game Development.