My team functions as the bridge between Apple and our amazing Arcade developers

- Game Technologies- Metal Ecosystem- Software updates- Special projects

Lead DD for Redwood StudiosOther Command & Conquer: Rivals pods I've served:- Prototyping Pod- Game Design Pod - Feature Development Pod- Server Pod- Tools and Tech Pod (Rendering, Tools, Core Engine, Build)- Quality Engineering Pod

Shipped Titles:- Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series (Line Producer) - Batman: The Telltale Series (Producer)- The Walking Dead: Michonne (Line Producer)- Tales from the Borderlands (Line Producer)- Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series (Producer)Some of my Responsibilities:-Set the strategic vision for all development team departments from outline to out-the-door - own season schedule, episodic closing and roll-on plans.-Manage the Production team - work with Studio Resource Managers, Publishing, the Production team, and project leads, to drive project goals, priorities, and plans to completion. -Build, oversee, and maintain fundamental processes/reporting tools to ensure project health - own risk lists, staffing documents, team/leads meeting agendas, creative change communication pipelines, asset review pipelines, task-tracking and progress monitoring pipelines in Jira/Confluence, executive updates, and milestone reports -Studio Leader - Plan and execute projects in line with evolving studio best practices/expectations, up-front and accountable if goals aren't met, offers time to and is sought after to pair with new Production hires for training purposes, active participant in meetings regarding Production team vision/development. -Assisted in the mentorship and development of multiple producers at every level of the company

Shipped Titles:- Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series- The Walking Dead: Season 2Some of my Responsibilities:-Managed the animation, environment, and character art teams - handled internal scheduling, strategic planning, risk analysis, coordinated outsourcing efforts, and provided cross-disciplinary support for these teams.-Managed the cinematic art, content programming, UI, and QA teams - handled internal scheduling, strategic planning, risk analysis, coordinated outsourcing efforts, and provided cross-disciplinary support for these teams.-Oversaw and co-led the closing process for over 70 individual Walking Dead 2 sku submissions across 7 platforms -Worked closely with Build, QA, Engineering, and various other game content teams to ensure bugs were prioritized, fixed, and regressed prior to submission.-Team Leader - Planned, created, and owned team milestones. Ensured the crew was in sync and delivering both line item tasks and high level goals. -Assisted in the mentorship and development of 4 assistant producers.

Shipped Titles:- The Walking Dead (Winner of over 90 "Game of the Year awards" in 2012)- The Walking Dead: 400 Days- Jurassic Park: The GameSome of my Responsibilities:-Managed the animation team - handled internal scheduling, strategic planning, risk analysis, coordinated outsourcing efforts, and provided cross-disciplinary animation support for the team.-Responsible for each episode's ratings submissions - handled game footage capture and video editing, managed relationships with various worldwide ratings agencies, and prepared each rating's submission package.-Co-led the localization effort on the Walking Dead - including managing the updating of our physical and digital products to make localization possible, -Facilitated the scoring of timelocked cutscenes by providing timed video capture to Directors and Music content author. -Team Leader - Frequently worked with the environment art, choreography (editing), QA, and Programming teams to solve cross disciplinary problems.

-Helped design Madden NFL 12‟s “Superstar mode” game feature-Created game content and design documents to support our creative, online, and presentation teams using proprietary toolsets, including the “Madden Moments LIVE” weekly DLC-Communicated game updates and promotions to customers by creating video content and writing blog posts. Worked with PR, Finance, Marketing, and Communication for content approvals-Assisted and worked closely with a variety of team managers to learn AAA studio development process from high level gate meetings and sprint reviews to pipeline solution talks and dailies

-Assumed full responsibility for a 16 person development team working on a new IP-Presented game to industry executives who green-lit the project for production-Created a strategic plan for development focusing on constant iteration-Chosen for position by faculty based on performance-Managed team communication, working in 1 on 1, small group, and who team situations-Assisted lead designer by designing puzzles and mechanics-Assisted lead designer by providing design structure and by providing documentation

- Managed 5 distinct, 5-6 person development teams making rapid prototypes-Presented prototypes to colleagues and faculty with a focus on selling excitement of the product-Fostered development from brainstorming, designing, and scheduling, to implementation, testing, and polish-Collaborated with programmers, artist, and other producers on each prototype-Acted as lead audio engineer for all 5 games, performing duties such as finding/creating and clipping sound effects, creating music, recording voice acting, normalizing sounds, and writing code for audio implementation.

-Assumed full responsibility for 120 at-risk students with wildly diverse backgrounds per year-Collaborated with other teachers for cross-disciplinary student achievement-Held accountable for entire school's state writing proficiency score-Created and imlemented original lessons based on state mandated standards and sold those lessons to students.