Abhilash Ravindran Email & Phone Number

Hyderabad, In

Pärnu, Estonia

• Overall responsibility for the Product Vision, driving the team to execute against the Product Goals and achieve our longer-term business objectives. • Working in partnership with the Development Director to constantly evolve and improve our team structure, delivery processes and communications.• Setting milestone goals and KPIs and validating delivery results through internal/external usability testing.• Primary project contact for internal publishing and stakeholder management, delivering stakeholder reporting across milestones and all major development gates.• Partnering with creative leads to maximize the productivity of the team and art outsourcing partners.• Mentoring and line management of 3 Associate producers•Facilitating and improving internal development processes• Identifying and resolving issues between schedule and design goals.• Ensuring all vital project documentation is complete and up-to-date.

Pärnu, Estonia

• Track and manage the product roadmap and resources based on deliveries;• Initiate and execute sprints (Agile: planning, review, retrospective).• Managing communication effectively with cross-functional teams within Production• Analytically identifying risks such as scope and pipeline dependencies.• Deliver reports on the progression of projects and team development.• Establish effective collaboration between outsourced and development teams.• Facilitating performance evaluation of the team.• Hiring and onboarding for production teams.• Involved in the productions team's organization restructure (Change Management).• Conflict management.

Pärnu, Estonia

Lecturer for the Game Production Course

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Worked on the development and expansion of Gameopedia's Taxonomy systems.• Contributed to the development of Gameopedia's Recommendation Engine.• Led and monitored all activities within the Game Taxonomy team of 40+ members.• Helped and assisted team members to achieve goals and targets.• Ensured resource availability and allocation.• Managed and influenced cross-functional teams without formal authority.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Ensured smooth operation and communication between cross-functional teams• Worked closely with agile product managers, software developers, and web designers to create and build a comprehensive video game recommendation engine.• Conducted daily Scrum meetings and weekly project meetings with key stakeholders.• Gathered and analyzed competitor data to build and track product development requirements.• Initiate and track all production processes through direct management of team leads• Maintained and updated a complex data-driven product with multiple deliverables.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Led and managed a team of 30+ expert gamers and trained them on analyzing video game metadata.• Implemented AGILE processes in order to quickly adapt to client needs and requirements.• Managed multiple SLAs in the digital data domain with deliverables to companies such as Google Search, Google Play store, and Youtube.• Outlined Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with these clients, estimated resources required to meet deadlines, and contract obligations.• Recruited, hired, and trained new employees to scale with the product platform.• Extensively and constantly upgraded the core product platform.

Hyderabad Area, India

• Performing content analysis on games; extracting and sharing insights on concepts and mechanics.• Discover trends in customer behavior through the analysis of gameplay videos.• Work with decision-makers to understand their goals, identify opportunities, and inform decisions about products and features across the company.

Certification, Game Design

Game Design - Game Critique - Game Theory - Interaction Design - Level Design - Marketing - Online/Social Games - Project Management.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Digital Communication And Media/Multimedia

The Bachelor of Science in Multimedia program curriculum fosters an understanding of media technology, as well as practical skills.

Certification, Digital Animation

Activities and Societies: Digital Animation

Certification, Art And Design Foundation

Activities and Societies: Figure drawing