William Dooling with his poodle Gatsby.

I’m a product-minded project manager who builds practical systems to solve complex issues. I run BevFantasy and am solo-developing and launching Into the Storm.


Role
Risk Enablement Specialist at DraftKings
Based
Baltimore, Maryland

Independent design projects

BevFantasy.com

Founder & Designer

A production fantasy-football platform built on Sleeper’s API with a PostgreSQL database, serving stat views through a static front end.

  • Designed and shipped the platform end-to-end, turning league history into rivalry stats, a filterable trade archive, and a live earnings ledger.
  • Created a weekly ritual modeled on college football’s AP Poll: a drag-to-rank ballot built for one-thumb voting, roster previews in place, and a live ballot count on every page, reshaped by power-user feedback before launch.
  • Built the Keeper Assistant, distilling eight accumulated bylaws of keeper rules into a plain yes-or-no for every player. The season it shipped, every manager set their keepers for the first time in league history.
  • Iterated on observed behavior, replacing dropdowns with tap-friendly avatar pickers and rebuilding the trade archive around a two-manager filter after the original went unused; 5 seasons and 500+ matchups stay current via nightly syncs.

Into the Storm

Studio Director, Game & Systems Designer · Studio Gibbles

A roguelike deckbuilder where three heroes share one deck, headed toward commercial release and currently in alpha.

  • Self-taught game design from scratch, then built and directed a team of 4+ freelance artists, steering the game’s visual identity through reference boards and annotated feedback.
  • Built feedback capture into the game itself (one tap logs a screenshot, session data, and note straight to the playtester Discord) and tied every report to full run analytics, so balance decisions are grounded in data instead of guesswork.
  • Ran structured blind playtests and translated observed friction and confusion into 200+ concrete iterations across the core gameplay loop and interface.

Experience

DraftKings

Risk Enablement Specialist

Previously Senior Risk Withdrawals Associate

  • Lead a six-person team as PM on the Risk Case Reduction Strategy, a top 2026 organizational priority targeting a 20% reduction in case volume through automation, AI, and process redesign.
  • Designed and built an internal anomaly-detection tool for Risk Operations work queues, iterating from manager feedback to add a three-way tagging system (false positive, expected, confirmed issue) that surfaced real upstream data-quality issues.
  • Appointed Head of the Fraud Mitigation Taskforce, ensuring Risk Operations regulatory compliance across all regulated U.S. states, Canada, and international jurisdictions; built DraftKings’ centralized Regulatory Library.
  • Led cross-functional workflow automation initiatives generating approximately $1.5 million in annual impact.
  • Promoted from Senior Risk Withdrawals Associate after a competitive internal Project Management internship.

Digital Gaming Corporation (Betway)

Risk Analyst

  • Built an automated Excel and Python process that increased Venmo withdrawal-processing speed by 40%.
  • Performed thousands of fraud and anti-money-laundering reviews on customer accounts and withdrawals and represented hundreds of payment disputes and chargebacks.

Congressional & legislative internships

Early career

Supported constituent casework, legislative research, and district-based issue resolution in the offices of U.S. Representative Lori Trahan and Massachusetts State Representative Jerald A. Parisella.

Education

University of Massachusetts Lowell

B.A., Political Science · Law & Politics concentration

May 2021 · Magna cum laude · Dean’s List, five semesters

Skills

  • 0-to-1 product design
  • Design systems
  • User research & iteration
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Workflow automation
  • Data analysis

Outside of work

I’m a long-distance runner who’s completed the Quebec, Philadelphia, and Buffalo marathons, a PC- and server-building enthusiast, and a GeoGuessr world-record holder. I’m also a lifelong cinephile with 1,500+ films logged. Follow me on Letterboxd.

Get in touch

Want to talk product, systems, games, or a project of your own?