Alex Knight Email & Phone Number

Rolla, Mo, Us

Edina, Mn, Us

Senior Producer charged with handling projects start to finish. Managing design aspects, Licensors, vendors, First Party, while managing budgets, schedules, and all that involved Publishing video games!

Gb

Continued role from Creative Producer.Additional responsibilities include:* Game Design Document creation and management. * Live Ops design, planning, and management structures. * Creative oversight with UX/UI creation and implementation.

Gb

Spearheading the self-publishing internal division for Firebrand Games while facilitating internal development teams, building a distributed studio working environment, and co-designing on a daily basis to ensure all aspects of game development are met.* Self-publishing, producing, and co-designing Firebrand original IP on mobile, Nintendo and Steam platforms from start to release.* Managing and driving internal marketing and social networking strategies to drive sales, downloads and exposure for Firebrand Games and the titles released.* Facilitating development team members via publishing schedules, milestones, and blended Kanban focused project management strategies.* Building new studio relationships with external vendors and publishers while maintaining direct interfacing to ensure development transparency including risk mitigation, content deliveries, schedules, and resourcing is as planned.* Managing daily studio operations to facilitate and support the development team as needed.* Maintaining a high level creative vision for development titles to further quality while meeting production timelines.* Co-designing original and licensed games from concept to release. Working closely with all departments to create a transparent and clear overall vision of the design and project status.

Gb

Worked alongside the Executive Producer to ensure that the current titles in pipeline were managed with daily reports, risk and analysis, and stand-ups as needed. Primary responsibilities included facilitating waterfall production methodologies on a daily basis. Weekly Senior Staff reports and meetings to ensure the games continued on time and budget and were resourced appropriately.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Managing time, budget, and high quality expectations with both external game developers and license holders globally as well as working with all internal departments including marketing, sales, IT, graphics, etc. to ensure high value produced games.* Was prioritized and responsible for public demoing of many slate titles during key sales events, trade shows, and PR driven events. * Assisted in training in new AP hires and on-boarding them into Activision practices.* Built new and lasting relationships with external vendors leading to repeat business.* Provided a leadership role and direct input into developer and vendor selection during Green-light stages.*Managed multiple titles at the day-to-day level integration, each with many skus simultaneously during a production cycle.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Provided qualitative and creative game design input and feedback for several titles simultaneously. I worked on a daily basis with Producers and External Developers to push the creativity of story, art, gameplay, features, etc.. As well as ensuring the titles that shipped met high quality standards as well as timely deadlines.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Provided both rigorous and thorough quality assurance testing in the Technical Requirements Group both in Microsoft and Nintendo to ensure that titles shipped adhered to strict First Party standards guaranteeing first pass submissions on multiple titles per season.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Ensured that the Online Multiplayer component of titles that shipped retained a bug free status and provided a high quality end user Multiplayer experience. I worked closely within a team of up to 16 to ensure all aspects of Multiplayer testing adhered to first party requirements and that an accurate test bed was recreated.

Grapevine, Texas, Us

Management retail skills that provided an increase in Gamestop Pre-order sales as well as boosting magazine subscriptions. Managed shift operations for several floor associates and drove morale to boost sales and marketing buy-ins.