Christopher Donley Email & Phone Number

Savoy, IL, US

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Lead project manager for Saints Row from Beta through 1st party submissions, launch, and post-launch content releases. Oversaw and drove process for Project Directors and a variety of lower-level, cross functional content teams. Responsible for outlining and coordinating major milestone and delivery dates vs projected work and staffing forecasts. Managed.

Project Manager for Volition's Core Technology Group as it supported Saints Row with their proprietary engine and tooling. Oversaw the collection and prioritization of various teams work backlogs, ensuring timely and effective improvements to developer workflows, engine-level functionality and next generation platform compatibility. Was most directly.

Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

Lead Producer for development and 1st-party publishing on Raw Data and Battlewake. Supported production of Sprint Vector, CREED: Rise to Glory, and Westworld: Awakening. - Managed internal studio development and QA teams, overseeing day-to-day tasking and team needs for multiple cross-functional development groups in a fast-paced technology start-up.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Provided general production support for large team focused on developing PVE content for in­development/ early­access MMO.Oversaw bug and task databases for the entire team and set priorities for QA department.
• Built a new internal bug database and workflow, rolled out to team in less than a week.
• Coordinated bug fixes for patches to live beta­test builds during continued feature development.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Oversaw development for multiple teams dedicated to UI and controls across PC, iOS and Wii-U platforms. Coordinated communication directly between Disney production and internal stakeholders.* Coordinated a complete UI overhaul to incorporate Apple/Disney feedback in less than 4 week period.* Worked closely with devs to create in-depth flow-charts to.

North Hollywood

• Producer for MiWorld Mall and several spec demo projects. Managed relationship withclient/publisher. Oversaw project schedules and day to day team management and resourcing.
• Served as scrumaster and project manager for various titles in a fast paced mobile appdevelopment environment.
• Processed client feedback on an ongoing basis, coordinating the shifting of resources toaddress client concerns throughout the project.
• Delivered three separate demos to client over the course of a single month of production.
• Experience with App Store and Google Play submission guidelines and requirements.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Provided production support for inenginegame footage capture. Consulted senior commercialproduction staff on game development practices and methods. Set daily goals for footage capture.
• Coordinated the capture and cataloging of thousands of pieces over an extremely shorttwoweekfinal shooting period.
• Tracked feedback on more than 100 separate shots and organized that information for thecapture team, editor and director on a daily basis.

• Supported the senior production staff and department leads in a wide variety of ways; productionplanning, scrum, cross disciplinary problem solving, localization and marketing coordination,outsourcing, motion capture.
• Generated actionable and prioritized items from meetings and ensured timely completionthrough regular followup.
• Communicated concerns on the cinematics scope combined with proposed solutions tostakeholders in a timely manner that avoided tens of thousands of dollars in additionalcosts.
• Tracked milestone progress and routinely caught deliverables that were in danger ofslipping through meticulous attention to status reports.
• Experience with Xbox and Sony submission guidelines and TCRs.
• Researched and built the team’s wiki to ensure that useful (and accurate) information onthe game was accessible to the entire team.

*Monitored servers, facilities and administered on-site troubleshooting for multimillion dollar reality series.*Responsible for daily video uploads to Hulu service, requiring high attention to detail.*Maintained communication between cast and off-site production crew.