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RESUME

WORK EXPERIENCE

Hasbro - Associate Game Designer

  • Lead Game Designer for Hasbro’s two franchise brands Monopoly and Clue, responsible for ensuring innovative, accessible, and high-quality gameplay experiences across all franchise expressions.

  • Collaborate with major licensors including Warner Brothers, Mattel, and Disney to create licensed games that align with Hasbro brands and licensor expectations.

  • Responsible for evaluating and developing inventor submissions across many categories including franchise, portfolio, preschool, and party.

  • Work directly with the CEO on the design and development of a strategy board game to be used as an internal corporate training tool.

June 2023- Present

PROJECTS

Monopoly Go

  • Designed and developed a board game based on the popular Monopoly GO app. Recognized by PureWow and Good Housekeeping in 2024 for best kids’ games.

  • Worked on an extremely aggressive schedule to design, test, refine, approve, and manufacture product for an on-shelf date less than one year from project kickoff.

  • Designed preliminary CAD with considerations for injection molding manufacturing.

Hasbro, Fall 2023

Monopoly Board Crawl

  • Designed and developed an adult party game version of the classic Monopoly board game, working towards the broader company mission to expand Hasbro presence in the party game category.

  • Worked closely with narrative, graphic, and legal partners to ensure consistency across Monopoly brand and clear differentiation from competitor game Drinkopoly.

Hasbro, Fall 2023

Little Chef

  • Worked collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team to design and fabricate an electronic board game for children ages 7+ to teach the fundamentals of coding.

  • Acted as lead designer to design, model, refine, and construct all game components.

  • Created a project road map to guarantee a completed looks-like and works-like prototype within a 6-week timeframe.

MADE, Summer 2022

EDUCATION

Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design

Master of Art in Design Engineering (MADE)

July 2022 - May 2023

Brown University

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

September 2018 - May 2022

AWARDS + RECOGNITION

Hero of the Realm: Awarded internally to teams and individuals at Hasbro who have had a tremendous impact on the business. Received for my work on Monopoly Go.

Rising Start Innovator of the Year 2024: Recognized by the People of Play organization at the annual TAGIEs for my work on Monopoly Go.

Top 100 Most Influential People in Toy and Game Design Today: Recognized by Mojo Nation in their 2025 edition of the most influential figures working in toy and game design.

AVA GARFINKEL

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