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Santa Clara, California, Us

Enabling AI and Gaming ISVs on AMD software and hardware.

Draper, Ut, Us

Draper, Ut, Us

• Led hiring and growth of the Author Success content acquisition team. Leading a team of 10+, designing career ladder, and developing job role.• Directed content acquisition and contracting• Partnered with nearly every team across Pluralsight on all content related matters• Raised author NPS over 20 points to 63 in less than 2 years. • Deployed adjustments in workflow and process in conjunction with cross-functional teams and created a reduction in content time-to-market of over 35%.

Draper, Ut, Us

- Led as project manager for over 75 Pluralsight courses.- Onboarded and maintained relationships as main point of contact to course authors, serving and facilitating over 50 authors and their courses simultaneously. - Commissioned new courses, managed legal contracts, and determined course compensation and royalties for each author and course.- Tracked deliverables, feedback, publishing, and all course content over extended periods of development, collaborating on instructional content.- Focused on experts and courses in VR/AR, gamedev, VFX, Adobe Creative Suite and design.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

- Produced custom training and instructional content for Fortune 500 and corporate clients, including: HP, HPE, Harley-Davidson, Morgan Stanley, McKinsey, OC Tanner, Deloitte, and Toray America.- Designed apps, games, websites, and experiences with team of engineers and artists.- Led content creation team of 10+.- Interviewed subject matter experts to translate knowledge and experience into content.- Storyboarded and edited video and motion graphics, managing translation services.- Iterated on all facets of design through customer preference testing using user feedback from customer product testing sessions on a continual basis.

- Led all facets of production on a multidisciplinary team of 12 (artists, engineers, designers).- Scoped project, managed features, releases, user testing, and led triage with team leaders.- Created all cut scenes, launch and marketing trailers, VFX, and motion capture.- Organic 500,000 downloads; “very positive” users score over 1,500 reviews (84% positive).- Organized bi-weekly distributed playtests, led triage meetings, and groomed feedback data.

Salt Lake City, Ut, Us

- Produced 3 separate, grant-funded research projects for Natural History Museum of Utah.- Developed for estimated reach of 80,000—100,000 visitors annually for two museum projects, and deployment for all Jr. High students in the state of Utah for third project.- Designed and facilitated usability testing with various test demographics and groups in various settings, enabled iteration through research and discovery with team of engineers and artists.- Responsible for presenting and communicating information to internal and external key-stakeholders such as educational board and executives accountable for grant funding.

- First QA hire of startup. Wrote initial test plans for core product.- Built QA team from scratch with upper management and trained each hire. - Maintained bug database, communicating severity, conflicts, and risk to product team.- Promoted development builds to live/production in conjunction with engineering team.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

- Created and designed testing/compliance checks for internal and external stakeholders such as Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony.- As principal liaison between QA and engineering teams, communicated risks, defined test patterns, and provided QA leadership with technical explanation of feature backend to customize targeted testing.- Responsible for verifying all features on a team-scale for daily production build. - Executed playtests and user testing with team, implemented feedback with engineering.- Declared stable daily builds to engineering team and wrote daily bug reports.

Master'S, Entertainment Arts And Engineering, Production

B.A, International Studies