The XDS Advisory Committee was formed with the intent to leverage subject matter experts to guide and shape the External Development Summit (XDS). As a member, I help steward the overall direction of XDS to ensure the event delivers high value, and continues to advance the practice of external development for the games industry.

- Management of a dynamic international team across multiple disciplines and studios world wide.- Responsible for $40 million annual budget across external development/outsourcing involving art, engineering, co-development, audio, functional QA, International/Localization and marketing. Consistently, meeting goals of 85-100% on target, up from 33% before I implemented new controls and process. - Facilitation and tracking against key objectives as part of the M & A integration team.- Budget analysis to "right size" asks from internal teams resulting in forecasting within 90-100% of ask for across all disciplines. Up from 30% and 50% realization of ask.-Implementation of company wide strategy and alignment for all external development/outsourcing involving art, engineering, co-dev, audio, functional QA and marketing.-Establish strategies, best practices and drives solutions across multiple projects at a company and divisional level.-Sets business goals and briefs, aligns resources towards those goals.-Makes ground-breaking change that positively affects external development process.-Regularly communicates with C-staff and excels in facilitating understanding among participants when in a group setting.-Excellent leadership qualities and skilled at conflict-revision.-Lead a team of external development producers and PMs to keep contracts, budgets and schedules informed and on track for all internal teams.-Placement and career management for outsourcing management throughout company.-Drive and maintain vendor due diligence on an annual basis.-Relationship management of existing and new vendors.-Proactively review internal team outsourcing efforts to advise and educate for success.-Define and present best practices and what good looks like throughout the company through presentations, workshops, documentation and onsite team outreach-Regularly participates in global outsourcing and game development conferences such as XDS, Game Connection, SIGGRAPH and GDC

Farmville 2-Developed and directly responsible for all outsourced icon, tree, crop, object and concept cadence pipelines.-Managed and mentored direct reports, providing guidance and direction while fostering growth and creatively in their careers.-Used outsourcing expertise to streamline external development processes across disciplines and teams.-Created a scale-able model for external development.-Developed representative tests for potential external partners and nurtured existing relationships.-Trained new External development partners to successfully execute the style of Farmville 2 on time and on budget.-Consistently worked toward bringing the vision of company wide external development in alignment with the goals of efficiency, education, support and facilitation.

- Developed and implemented a proven outsource process which has resulted in saved time and money as well as defined rules which have been applied to all Sims development for increased quality and efficiency across multiple teams, platforms and art disciplines.- Final visual review and approval of concept and in-game art assets.- Provided art direction and training to outsourcing partners and teams in the US, China, Ukraine and India.- Implemented content creation guides, video training, tools and best practices for streamlined asset creation.- Created standardized specification and review processes and templates.- Participated in multiple seminars and training sessions to document and help other outsourcing efforts within EA.- Developed a forum in which all outsourcing involved staff meet and discuss issues, solutions and receive training. - Created a plan to centralize outsourcing efforts within the Sims Studio for better efficiency and use of resources.- Provided onsite training in Germany, China and Ukraine.

- Designed and created graphics, models, animations, technical diagrams and tests for video card drivers.- Project Manager on external production of the NVIDIA Audio Logo.- Worked with several external video production houses to produce graphics and video.- Created and edited promotional videos for E3 2003.- Reconfigured the layout of all driver control panel pages to streamline functionality and usability.

08/00 - 11/00, Senior Graphic Artist, ViOS, Cary NC- Directed rework of all art assets for MMO optimization, visual continuity and best practices.- Project Manager coordinating development with external architects and clients.- Designed and developed models and textures to help populate the ViOS landscape.- Organized the entire art database and naming structure.

- Directed art team on Timeline by author Michael Crichton.- Worked closely with the author and designers to determine visual style and game play.- Created and directed concept art for environments and architectural style.- Implemented pipeline for art production and motion capture.- Mentored by Ron Cobb

- Lead art production for Concept CAD, Landscape Pack, and 2 Building Materials Packs.- Held position until moving to corporate spin-off, Timeline Computer Entertainment.- Assisted on level editors QuakeMaker, HexenMaker and QuakeMaker2.

- Taught 3ds Max and Photoshop and updated curriculum to better match the needs of the industry.

- Lead “Warhammer 40K: The Chaos Gate” pre-production work.- Created art for Soldiers at War, National Indian Lottery, and Rules of the Game.

- Developed Computer Based Training programs and marketing materials for outside clients

- Created high polygon models, textures and detailed levels.- Built tiling system for Vikings: The Strategy of Ultimate Conquest.