Jim Tsai
Board Director And Strategic Advisor
Santa Monica, California, United States
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Top SchoolJim Tsai is a veteran gaming executive and strategic advisor with over 25 years of experience building teams and shipping games across PC, console, and mobile platforms. As former CEO of Snail Games USA and Studio Wildcard, he led companies from small startups to publicly-listed-scale operations, combining creative product direction with hands-on studio management and business development. He has deep expertise in production, art direction, and KPI-driven studio optimization—skills rooted in an early career as a creative director and reinforced by a BFA in Graphic Design and technical graphics training. Jim is especially skilled at leveraging non-core assets like real estate to stabilize growth and guide firms through transitions from deficit to Nasdaq-readiness. Based in Santa Monica, he blends creative sensibility with strategic rigor and an appetite for emerging tech, holding an MIT certificate on AI’s business implications. An understated detail: his GitHub bio wryly reads “I am a bug,” hinting at a playful, hands-on curiosity despite a boardroom résumé.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at ArtCenter College of DesignBachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Graphic Design at Chinese Culture UniversityCertificate Computer graphics, Certificate Computer graphics at Platt College-Los Angeles
English, Chinese, Mandarin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
objective-c10
ios10
cocoa10
keyboard10
sliding10
swift10
macos10
uitextfield10
dependency-manager9
codeless9
xcode9
cocoapods9
cropper9
iqkeyboardmanager9
package-manager9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
snailjj/snailjj.github.io
Jun 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
1791422018/SwiftDemos
Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:70 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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