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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Strategic Alignment and Task Management- Collaborated closely with the Simulation and Image Generation teams, ensuring project scopes, tasks, and sprints were aligned and clearly defined to meet milestones.- Partnered with the TPM team to communicate progress consistently, ensuring seamless integration of project components and clarity in direction.Communication and Leadership- Directed communication across all levels within the company, updating stakeholders about new processes, vital changes, and project trajectories.- Hosted triage sessions, assessing potential risks, ensuring milestone definitions were met, and fostering strong communication lines within the teams.JIRA and Process Improvements- Innovated and maintained JIRA dashboards, streamlining task tracking and enabling both individual contributors and teams to remain current with overarching company initiatives and their individual tasks.- Spearheaded process improvements, focusing on maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of JIRA dashboards and task-tracking mechanisms.Supporting Data Deliveries and Features Implementation- Worked hand-in-hand with the technical teams to ensure timely delivery of critical datasets and new feature implementations, aligning with project timelines and company objectives.- Ensured the accuracy of tasks and estimates, conveying daily progress to senior leadership and key project stakeholders.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Drove feature planning with designers, engineers, artists, and QA, ensuring the accuracy of tasks and estimates, communicating progress to senior leadership and project stakeholders on a daily basis to meet biweekly sprint milestones- Led the Disney Mirrorverse features team on scope and capacity planning, ensuring that our developers were able to meet targets for feature roadmaps and definitions to stay aligned on monthly releases- Triaged issues daily with various game departments to make sure that our milestone definitions were met for releases and risks were assessed as well as communicated to the team- Built and developed the processes and procedures around execution and planning of research tests with the UX researcher team made up of four people with up to seven projects at different development phases allowing the team more insights into overlapping timelines and risks

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Collaborated with the Marvel Realm of Champions production team on feature development and philosophy in which we were able to develop based on UXR feedback and quality milestones, allowing features to be delivered to a high quality which was received extremely well by consumers/players on social media platforms- Partnered with senior leadership at the end of Marvel Realm of Champions to ensure that we were able to transition a staff of over fifty people to other opportunities within the company, and stayed along at reduced capacity until sunset

Vancouver, Canada Area

- Directed a team of up to ten talented testers to ensure quality and stability throughout the live operations in four products ensuring that training and capacity was met through process improvements and management support, this had the effect of reducing live issues and player compensation, saving the company money- Received vision from the QA director and worked with the team to realize the QA department vision on a yearly basis or as changes happened

- Setup the live operations testing process with the Tabu team on FIFA mobile to ensure that testing was completed effectively in order to meet daily timeline constraints- Worked with the FIFA Online QA team to ensure that Online features were tested, test plans validated and understood by outsource testers as well as in house