Theofilos koutroubis

Filling a multi-role for the leading company of handcrafted gaming tables in the world. From marketing and production management to peer to peer customer service.

Have been working on gaming projects and studying game design over the years, with an active presence on the Board Game Industry. My experience so far has resulted in:
• Working on more than 20 game design projects, with 1 published game, and more to come.
• Being a playtester in now published games such as Alexandria, Tour Operator.
• To become a founder member of Board Game Stories, a website about board games.
• Working for Rathskellers as a sales and communications manager at Fairs since 2015.
• Supporting game publishers with game development, proofreading, and marketing such as BigKid Games, Tabula Games, Babox Games, Booyah Games, and more.
• Being invited as a Mentor in Thessaloniki's Entrepreneurship School 2018.
• Working as Game Guru (Instructor) in Game Cafes and conventions.
• Working as a Sales Instructor for the gaming sections of big-size retailers.
• Creating a board game for Nasa App Challenges 2018 about the Humble Telescope.
• Creating two "Treasure Hunting" gaming experiences for AEGEE in Thessaloniki and Ioannina.
• Being invited twice as a Game Design speaker to middle schools of Thessaloniki.

An administrator of this board game media site with more than 120 Publications, remotely working on:
• News, Reviews, Previews, Interviews (Designers & Publishers)
• Managing our newborn 2000+ members community (since June 25th, 2018)
• Publisher Consulting (Development, Proofreading, Aesthetics, Kickstarter campaigns)

Remotely implementing culture development according to the company's core values. Onboarding new members and creating a welcoming environment. Performing quality assurance

Teaching and marketing over 60 modern game titles as a Board Game expert at "The Comic Con 4 & 5" (2018 & 2019 respectively).

I had the chance to work on various projects, learning by action:
• Digital Marketing: Creating various Google Adwords campaigns (video, app, text - in both Display & Search Networks), Facebook Ads and LinkedIn Ads for our clients.
• UX & UI app reporting, ensuring the best experience for users while being up to date to its Industry.
• Organization and Team Management through tools like - Trello, Evernote, Insightly.
• Project research and collaboration with NRG Productions for the creation of a radio spot.

Working on an intense high-season period on this touristic island, being in charge of customer service.
Creating the digital presence of "Ksenyxtis" Grill House and enhancing its brand through CRM.

• Teaching and recommending board games to customers in the two board game cafes of the brand.
• By being the first game guru in the company, I assembled and trained an appropriate team.
• Implemented strategies followed by Game Cafes globally both in service and in dealing with the gaming library. Thus, a strong working structured was formed and the number of games was doubled for a total of more than 800, so the company could keep up with modern gaming and stay competitive.
• Resulting in a positive ROI, with the brand maintaining the strategies implemented for that position.

Teaching and marketing over 60 games at the annual Fair "The ComiCon" 2015-2019.

Writing articles about the board game industry, in Greek.

Working B2B & B2C on the International Spieltage SPIEL 2015/2017/2018 and at PAX Unplugged 2018.

Managing the logistics for one of the company's stores during the Summer period.

Supervising the school's students in training and exams periods.

• Thesis in Cognitive Psychology: Information Processing Theory