Scott Cummings
Vice President Product And Technology, PBS KIDS
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Cummings is a product and technology leader with 13+ years at PBS KIDS, now serving as Vice President overseeing product, engineering, operations and QA for digital platforms reaching over a dozen million monthly users. He has repeatedly led large platform redesigns and migrations—most notably transitioning games from Flash to HTML5—and built the production pipelines, game tools, and distribution strategies that deliver 50+ new games per year and a 200+ game library across mobile and web. Scott combines hands-on engineering empathy (contributions to the Cocos2d-html5 game framework) with grant-funded product innovation, launching flagship experiences like the PBS KIDS Games app, Kart Kingdom virtual world, PBS KIDS for Parents and PBS LearningMedia. He excels at aligning cross-functional teams during organizational change and embedding privacy and safety into children’s digital products, a specialty that has shaped how millions of kids and caregivers access educational content.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MA BA Electronic Music Composition Computer Science, MA BA Electronic Music Composition Computer Science at University of Arkansas
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
game-development10
cocos2d-html510
front-end-development9
debug9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cocos2d/cocos2d-html5
Dec 2012 - Jun 2013
Cocos2d for Web Browsers. Built using JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Cocos2d-html5 game development framework. They addressed issues related to tile map parsing in TMX files, ensuring that multiple properties for tiles were correctly handled. Additionally, the user fixed formatting and example code in the CCMenuItem component. These contributions suggest a focus on both core engine functionality and usability improvements.
browsersjavascriptcocos2dbrowser
mcscooter/cocos2d-html5-orthogonal-tile
Oct 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:44 commits in 3 months
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