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Marc Mencher (born 1961) is an American executive in the video game industry, who has written multiple articles and books about gaming careers, such as the 2003 book ''Get in the Game: Careers in the Game Industry.'' He is best known as co-founder and CEO of the recruiting agency GameRecruiter.com,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GameRecruiter.com )〕 and is a frequent contributor to game developer trade magazines and websites such as Gamasutra. ==Biography== Mencher was born in 1961 in New York, the eldest of five children to a schoolteacher and a government adjudicator. The family eventually moved to Ohio, where he attended Shaker Heights High School, and then Cleveland State University, receiving a degree in business in 1984, with a minor in computer science. After college, his first job was with Cincinnati Milacron, where he was eventually put in charge of an AI research project funded by the USAF, in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. While working at Carnegie Mellon, he saw some of the programmers late at night playing the first networked UNIX-based game, known today as ''Asteroids''. This inspired him to leave Cincinnati Milacron and become involved in the video gaming industry.〔 His first gaming job was at Sphere, which was later renamed to Spectrum Holobyte. He worked as a software engineer on the games ''Vet'' and ''Falcon 1''. When Spectrum Holobyte merged with MicroProse in 1993, Mencher was asked to staff the entity, and hired over 200 people. He later joined The 3DO Company, a game console manufacturer, as Staffing Manager, and helped to build The 3DO Studio (The 3DO Company’s Game Development Studio) from scratch, hiring over 300 people.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Marc Mencher bio )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=February 5, 2009 )〕 In 1996, Mencher decided that he enjoyed the work so much, he opened his own recruiting firm, Virtual Search, which was later renamed to GameRecruiter in 2004, with Mencher as CEO, along with co-founder Howard Taule. The firm specializes in career opportunities within the worldwide gaming industry, and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with satellite offices in Austin, Texas, Las Vegas, Nevada, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. While running the recruiting company, Mencher also contributed to the gaming industry as a producer of games such as ''Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals'' and was given special thanks in the credits of: ''Force 21'' and'' Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare''. Mencher has written many articles for game industry periodicals and websites such as Gamasutra, with advice and observations on gaming careers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Author biography )〕 He has also been interviewed as an industry expert on ''Blog Talk Radio'', and in periodicals such as ''Wall Street Journal'', ''Boston Globe'', the ''Florida Sun-Sentinel'' and ''The Washington Post''. In 2002, he wrote and published his first book, ''Get in the Game!''. The book guides and prepares readers to start a career in the game industry, and shows the reader how to research, network, meet the right industry people, access the unadvertised job market, and present an effective demo. The book also gives advice for writing resumes, handling interviews, and negotiating salary packages. Additional advice is included from several industry experts who discuss different types of careers in the industry. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marc Mencher」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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