Michael Raith 🔜 Portside Game Assembly

Junior Project Manager @ Games/Bavaria

Germany

About

Hi, I'm a project manager at Games/Bavaria, primarily responsible for our events, including GAMEREI Open House and the GG Bavaria Business Day. Additionally, I'm in charge of our delegation trip program, where I am working on making Bavarian games visible at any gaming event :) I'm sometimes very slow to respond to messages and tend to use too many emojis when I reply 🐢 📆 Wanna talk? I’d love to! Pick a time that works for you at https://bookings.cloud.microsoft/bookwithme/user/6f59911f78bc41698491c2ce41ed59ed%40medien-bayern.de ☺️ 🌍 Or let’s chat in person! You can find me at the following events: - May 21: Media For You Nürnberg (https://www.startintomedia.de/media-for-you/media-for-you-nuernberg) - May 23 – 24: LFG-Con Hof (https://lfg-con.de/) - May 25 – 29: Nordic Game Malmö (https://nordicgame.com/) - June 2: GAMEREI Open House „Games & Film" (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gamerei-open-house-games-film-tickets-1981050179415) - June 25 – 27: Portside Game Assembly Hamburg (https://gamecity-hamburg.de/de/portside-game-assembly/) - August 24 – 29: gamescom dev (https://dev.gamescom.global/) & gamescom (https://www.gamescom.global/de)

Experience

  • Junior Project Manager at Games/Bavaria
    Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

  • Student assistant with bachelor degree at Universität Augsburg
    Oct 2023 - Feb 2024 · 5 mos

    - Organization of the monthly offer "GameTalks", allowing students to get hands-on experiences with the department's gaming-, VR-, and AR equipment and to exchange about video games - Organization of two expert presentations with Jonas Wurm (2D 3D Concept Artist at Aesir Interactive) and Heiko Klinge (Editor-in-Chief of Gamestar.de) and an additional expert presentation for the summer semester 2024 with Georg Baier (Business Analyst, Sales Coordinator, Funding Coordinator at rcp – remote control productions) - Marketing of the GameTalks and expert presentations to all students in Augsburg and surroundings - Additional help in research projects of the media reality department of the University of Augsburg

  • Research assistant at Universität Augsburg
    Oct 2022 - Mar 2023 · 6 mos

    - Organization of the monthly offer "GameTalks", allowing students to get hands-on experiences with the department's gaming-, VR-, and AR equipment and to exchange about video games - Organization of an expert presentation with Sandro Odak (Communications Lead at Xbox DACH/Microsoft at that time) - Marketing of the GameTalks and expert presentation to all students in Augsburg and surroundings - Additional help in research projects of the media reality department of the University of Augsburg

  • Internship Marketing, PR & Sales at PEIQ
    Mar 2020 - May 2020 · 3 mos

    - Maintenance (editing and updating) of the Insightly customer database - Evaluation and testing of various online event tools as well as supporting activities in the preparation of virtual events - Internal corporate communication: Testing Confluence incl. creation of target pages, creation/revision, and dispatch of the internal newsletter via Newsletter2Go

  • Internship Editorial office Landbote at Augsburger Allgemeine
    Oct 2016 - Nov 2016 · 2 mos

    - Independent writing of texts with the help of the editorial system for both the daily newspaper and its website - Independent planning and conducting of interviews - Digital photography in the context of interviews