Island Officials

Ryan Morrison, CEO and Executive Producer
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Ryan Morrison is the business visionary that has led Island Officials from a ‘basement project’ into a fully operational game development studio. Morrison has led the management and creative teams at Island Officials in the development of nearly a dozen games and applications.

Alongside Island Officials, Morrison is a software engineer at The SI Organization, Inc. (formally part of Lockheed Martin), and is the lead instructor, and visionary, of the Game Design & Development AAS program at Camden County College. From 1993 through 2008 Morrison’s involvement in the game industry was focused on multi-unit, specialty and big-box retail business development. During this time Morrison worked with companies such as Blockbuster Video, Funcoland, Gamestop, Toys R Us and GameCrazy.

Morrison is an active member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the IGDA (International Game Developer’s Association) and is also the founder/advisor for Camden County College’s Game Design Guild. His educational background is in Graphic Design and Art from Gloucester County College and Thomas Edison State College.

Ryan Harbinson, COO and Creative Director
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Ryan Harbinson is a co-founder of, and the driving creative force behind, Island Officials. Harbinson has provided the overall vision and managed the design of over a dozen games and applications. Along with his responsibilities at Island Officials, Harbinson is also the product director at Storm City Games, a casual/value games publisher based in Sicklerville, NJ. At Storm City, Ryan has overseen the marketing and sales off over 120 games on the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii & Sony PSP including the top selling Chicken Shoot and M&M’s Cart Racing both on Nintendo DS and Wii.

Prior to his work at Island Officials and Storm City Games, Harbinson worked as a product specialist at game publishing houses, DSi & Zoo Games Inc. Alongside his work with these game publishers, Ryan has taught game design & development courses at Camden County College. Prior to his experience working in games publishing and development, Harbinson worked in a management position at specialty game retailers for more than 8 years.

Harbinson has two AAS degrees from Camden County College in Graphic Design and Game Design & Development. Harbinson helped form the Game Design & Development AAS program at Camden County College.  Harbinson is also the interim Vice Chair of the Philadelphia Chapter of the IGDA.

Ed Fleming, Vice President of Business Development
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Prior to working with Island Officials, Fleming was the President, and Founder, of Lunar Tide Communications, Inc. At Lunar Tide, Fleming built multiple video game related gaming services. Must notability, Fleming managed a multi-million dollar marketing and production partnership with NBC Universal to develop Video Game Expo, a gaming convention based in Philadelphia – at its peak the expo drew nearly 25,000 attendees.

In addition to his business development experience, Fleming has worked in higher education for the past ten years at St. Joseph’s University. At “St. Joe’s”, Fleming lectures undergraduate and graduate students in subject areas including business management, MIS, Internet-based marketing and video game production and management.

Fleming is a founder, and current advisory board member, of VideoGame.Org a non-profit
organization dedicated to developing educational services with video games. Fleming also sits
on the advisory board for the Games and Simulation Programming degree program at DeVry
University.

A graduate of Franklin Pierce University, Fleming received a Bachelor of Arts degree in both
Psychology and Anthropology.