| Alexander Westerman | |
|---|---|
| Born | New York, NY |
| Occupation | Creative Director |
| Religion | Jewish |
Alexander Westerman (born 1969 [1]) is a United States of America Creative Director. He began his career as an Art Director having studied at Ithaca College and New York University. Westerman is currently the Creative Director for Mattel Digital and Mattel Marketing & Communications.
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Alex Westerman started out as an prop master and art director. Westerman's experience ranges from television to movie and theater productions. He was Executive in Charge of Development at Bona Dea Productions, a Production Executive of The Weisberger Theatre Group, and a year as an Assistant to producer Fred Zollo. In 2000, Westerman left his job at Disney to found a start-up called RadicalZoo.[2] RadicalZoo was to be a destination for independent film makers. RadicalZoo folded in 2003. Westerman joined the staff of Nickelodeon in 2004 and went on to create award winning sites and applications for the company. In 2009 Westerman left Nickelodeon to become Creative Director for the Mattel.
In 2007 - 2008, Westerman created an Adobe Air application as an Adobe launch partner. The application was the first game to be created using the air runtime. The game allows users to engage in a scavenger hunt, collecting jig saw puzzle pieces and assemble and solve the puzzle offline in the Air runtime.[3]
Westerman is also the publisher of a popular amusement park and roller coaster website; ThrillNetwork.com. ThrillNetwork is large community dedicated to provide news and information about the amusement park industry. The site contains one of the most comprehensive databases of statistical data on almost every park and ride in the world.
Westerman's background is diverse. He was classically trained as a ballet dancer studying at The School of American Ballet in NYC. While attending Ithaca College he choreographed ballets for the dance school. Two of which were critical successes; La Belle et la Bete [4] and Flight of Icarus.[5][6]
Westerman served as Production Director of Nicktropolis. Nicktropolis is Nickelodeon's massively multiplayer online game and massively multiplayer online role-playing game that is part of Nick.com.[7]
Transformers Game - A Transformers Game and area, based on the popular Hasbro toys, is being developed. Teams will compete for Nickpoints and prizes. Game players will have to choose which team to join, evil DECEPTICONS or the noble AUTOBOTS? These two opposing teams will battle it out for control of the elusive Energon Cubes. The area will contain brand new rooms, features, and gameplay, this is sure to be the next evolution of games in Nicktropolis.[8]
A method and a system for controlling a virtual environment of a user.[13]