Arron Wray Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Currently working with an international team on pre-production of a new IP at Shapefarm, a AA studio based in Japan. • Worked with department leads to establish timelines and milestones for the project • Managed the day to day needs of the dev team by facilitating smooth communication across a team spread between Japan and multiple countries throughout Europe • Transitioned the team from Asana to Jira. Personally setting up the jira backend and adapting it to create new workflows for the team, as well as populating the database with tasks to create a project backlog • Maintained the projected budget in line with the needs of the project • Coordinated the hiring and onboarding process for new team members

Wilmslow, England, United Kingdom

After completing the successful submission of LEGO Star Wars, I took over guiding a dev team of roughly 50 people through pre-production on a new title created in Unreal. • Collaborated with departmental leads to build schedules and track progress through milestones. • Moved the entire dev team off of a sprint based workflow to a new one I created with the team, loosely based around Kanban• Worked with Design to set weekly goals for each department and ensure these are delivered in time for regular review meetings. • Mentored junior Production staff on other projects.

Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Managed a dedicated dev team of ~35 people from various departments, responsible for producing at least half of the content in Tt’s largest ever game, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.• Introduced the programming team to working in sprints for the first time• Created and maintained schedules for my teams using a combination of MS Project and Jira• Trained and managed a new junior member of the Production team over the course of a year. • Worked with the code team to develop a set of python script based tools to automate the tracking of fix rates and other useful data during submissions • Assisted in the submission of LEGO DC Supervillains and LEGO Marvel Superheroes by distributing and tracking bugs with the team.

Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Assisted with the delivery of the main submission and subsequent patches / DLC of one of our titles.

Worked as a general tester on three titles. On my fourth I was responsible for managing a team of ~15 other testers, assigning daily tasks and communicating the results of tests to the Production team.

Manchester, United Kingdom

My main duties include:• Selling to customers via conversational skills and product knowledge. • Handling customer transactions at the till.• Taking phone calls from customers, other stores and district managers.• Making decisions regarding the store layout and displays. • Training new staff members since a few weeks into my own employment.• Ordering and receiving deliveries.

Manchester, United Kingdom

The Gaming Society is not only one of the largest societies in the union, with over 500 members, but during my time as Chairman we also won the Best Hobby Society award. As Chairman my duties included:• Managing a team of 14 people, assigning them all tasks at weekly committee meetings and ensuring that these are all carried out correctly and in a timely fashion.• Running events at least once a week. Including setting up equipment which often required great initiative to solve technical issues before the events began.• Contacting companies and other societies to organise large events at venues off campus and negotiating deals where required. Working as Chairman was a great experience and taught me essential skills in leadership, negotiation, teamwork.

During the summer of 2011 I spent 3 weeks working for the UFA, a charity that runs summer schools for children aged 10-15. Each day I ran a sports workshop for a group of 30 children teaching them new sports and supervising them throughout the day.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Genetics

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