[vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” top_padding=”8%” zindex=”100″ enable_gradient=”true” color_overlay=”#fa6e08″ color_overlay_2=”#ea5207″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”1″ enable_shape_divider=”true” shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_divider_height=”200″ shape_type=”waves_opacity_alt”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/6″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”2/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”BRYAN MC NAMARA” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:60|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:1″ google_fonts=”font_family:Lato%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css_animation=”fadeInDown”][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” bottom_padding=”7%” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” centered_text=”true” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ font_color=”#ffffff” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”40″][vc_custom_heading text=”GAMER. COMMUNITY BUILDER. COMMS GURU.” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:35|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:1″ google_fonts=”font_family:Lato%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner enable_animation=”true” animation=”grow-in” column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_position=”all” background_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.01)” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_color_hover=”rgba(255,255,255,0.01)” background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”10px” bottom_margin=”-25%” width=”1/1″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”275″ alignment=”center” animation=”Grow In” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/6″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” bg_image=”264″ bg_position=”left top” bg_repeat=”no-repeat” bg_color=”#ffffff” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” top_padding=”10%” bottom_padding=”45″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/2″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”45″][vc_custom_heading text=”A BIT ABOUT ME.” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23fa6e08″ google_fonts=”font_family:Lato%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_column_text]
I’ve always been a gamer. Since I got my hands on my first console, the NES in the early 90’s I’ve found a great sense of fun, achievement, and friendships through gaming. This evolved and grew with the advent of MMOs. In my mid-teens, I would frequent a LAN gaming center with my friends and we got hooked on EVE Online, a space based real time MMO with complex economics and politics. It was here that I began to grow my leadership, planning and strategic skills. Through years of playing, I found myself helping to lead an alliance of 3000+ players. This involved a huge amount of social interaction, planning, coaching, strategising and combat command. It was awesome!
College life then took over as did working in the real world, so my time for gaming had cut back. I later took up World of Warcraft and have been playing now for 10 years. For the majority of that time I’ve been leading a guild and raid team. I really enjoy the planning and strategising that goes into progressing with a team of players and then carrying that out until we hit our goal!
My passion for gaming has never decreased, only evolved to my joining the game’s industry in 2015, building strong international communities and esport ecosystems all across Europe
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FOUNDED GEEK IRELAND
I launched Geek Ireland as a platform to highlight geek/nerd culture andevents that were happening throughout Ireland as there was no central location to see what it was that was going on. Shortly after, Geek Ireland transformed into a platform with a much broader scope, covering game and movie reviews, comics, technology, geek news, live event coverage, social events and much more. Currently, I lead a team of 25 voluntary contributors ranging from writers to editors and video content producers.
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MOVED TO DUBLIN & JOINED AOL
After completing my time studying Accounting and Taxation, as well as serving as a Students’ Union President, I made the move to Dublin to begin working with AOL. My work at AOL most focused on billing and invoicing for all UK advertising entities as well as compliance auditing. While at AOL I served on the groups Corporate Social Responsibility team and lead a team initiative for Monster Help Day.
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LAUNCHED IRELAND’S FIRST ESPORTS EVENT
If it wasn’t already obvious, I’m a hardcore gamer, particularly in the realm of online games such as League of Legends, World of Warcraft, Fortnite and many other titles. With the rising success of Geek Ireland, I wanted to expand into competitive gaming tournaments, giving rise to the first esport events in Ireland. I found a co-founder who shared a similar vision as I did and in our spare time, we kicked off a humble event called G-Series which went on to see 9 events in its lifetime. G-Series hosted the highest level of competitive play for League of Legends, CS:GO, Call of Duty, Hearthstone and Starcraft 2 in Ireland from 2013 to 2016.
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JOINED RIOT GAMES
I was able to build a strong relationship with the team at Riot Games in Dublin who supported League of Legends players and community at each G-Series event. By the second event, it was suggested that I apply for the role of Programs Specialist which focused on grassroots play across Europe. I joined Riot games and eventually moved up the ranks to become a senior esport and community lead for Ireland and The UK. As lead I was also a product owner for various initiatives that the team was responsible for, as well as owning and managing the relationship between Riot Games and third-party operators such as ESL, Dreamhack and Multiplay. While at Riot Games, I also had the opportunity to serve as a referee for the LCS and many of the international shows, such as All-Stars and Split Finals. I also developed and hosted Europes onboarding process for new rioters, arming them with the skills to be player facing online and in person.
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FOUNDED RAID GAMING
With Riot’s expansion of local offices across Europe I was afforded the opportunity to join the UK office and help shape a more focused esport ecosystem for players there, which made the role in Dublin redundant. Moving to the UK was not something I was able to do at that time so I took the chance to go out on my own and launch RAID Gaming. RAID is an esport production company, capable of providing a fully catered esport event, including online tournament operations, broadcasting of play to international standards and hosting live events. RAID Gaming continues to deliver excellence in esport events and has recently completed work with Red Bull and looks forward to working at Dublin Games Week later in 2018.
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JOINED WHIPPER
I was presented with an opportunity to join a very high potential startup with a super experienced team of leaders and developers who are set to reshape and evolve messaging. I joined initially to help shape out the website and social voice for Whipper, before going full time as the Chief Communications Officer charged with helping the team on upcoming projects such as Horizon 2020 and an ICO later in 2018.
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As a person, Bryan had a maturity that allowed him to receive and process feedback in a calm and measured way, always showing that critical feedback could be taken and acted upon without fuss – a quality that I truly admired him for. On many occasions he would be the ´go to’ guy that many Rioters would approach to help solve problems or to receive advice.
Bryan has grown to be a true leader with his successful launch of Raid Gaming. He developed new skills in terms of negotiation, management and leadership which was a joy to watch. If there is a ceiling for Bryan´s growth, I do not believe he is remotely close to reaching it.[/vc_testimonial][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/2″ column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_testimonial name=”Dave McKinley” namesize=”18px” nameclr=”#ffffff” prof=”Chief Product Officer at Whipper” profclr=”#ffffff” image_id=”88″ link=”#”]Bryan is a powerhouse, describing him as a communications pro wouldn’t do justice to the panoply of his skills. Bryan has transformed Whipper’s public-facing web presence, collateral materials, social strategy, web infrastructure and internal communications structure in a professional and efficient manner. We have worked together both remotely and in the same location, and I have found him to be a true pleasure to work with. He takes and gives direction gracefully, and always has an eye on the bigger picture.
Bryan is the secret weapon that can take any organization to the next level, bringing clarity to your communications, social and media strategy. Working with him is a true pleasure, and I hope to continue doing so into the future![/vc_testimonial][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” top_padding=”45″ bottom_padding=”25″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_type=””][vc_column centered_text=”true” column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”AWARDS & ACCREDITATIONS” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:35|text_align:center|color:%23fa6e08|line_height:1″ google_fonts=”font_family:Lato%3A100%2C100italic%2C300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” bottom_padding=”0″ overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_type=””][vc_column centered_text=”true” column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/3″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][nectar_icon icon_family=”iconsmind” icon_style=”border-animation” icon_border_thickness=”2px” icon_color=”Accent-Color” icon_padding=”20px” icon_iconsmind=”iconsmind-Thunder”][info_banner_vc]
Fastest Team Win
Riot Rumble 2017
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ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP)
Awarded 2016
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Riot Games Manager Academy
Course completed 2016
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Winner: Best Film & TV Blog
Geek Ireland at the Irish Blog Awards 2016
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Winner: Best Irish Comic Related Website/Blog
Geek Ireland at ICN 2015
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Winner: Best Website
Geek Ireland at European Science Fiction Society 2015
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