Charles Porter Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, WA, US

Redmond, Washington, United States

Seattle, WA

• Production leader driving the development of Double Down Fort Knox, a franchise mobile casino property, on a $10M annual budget. Oversight included planning, processes, cross-discipline coordination and reporting.
• Shipped Double Down Fort Knox on iOS and Android platforms with >40 updates over a 4-year period to >2.1 million users.
• Achieved profitability and acquired >2M players while releasing over 100 slots.
• Go-to person for resolving contentious cross-discipline issues and driving deep-dive post-mortems on issues.

Bellevue, WA

• We were a small startup, so I wore a lot of hats; most of them simultaneously:
• Senior PM for the Envelop SDK
• Director of Test (and initially the entire Q/A org)
• Sales Engineer
• Release Manager
• The. Best. Demo-er.I was the go-to person at the company for filling gaps, and I had a ton of critical responsibilities:

Microsoft Studios Redmond

• Drove all release-related tasks for Project Spark, one of Microsoft’s flagship Games-as-a-Service property, including updates and DLC. Responsible for shipping 1-2 updates and 1-2 DLC monthly across Xbox One and.
• Commended by management for quickly, seamlessly, and autonomously assuming ownership and implementing improvements for all Release Management and internal service offer-related tasks.
• Managed the release of Project Spark’s Conker’s Big Reunion and Conker: Hail to the Remix DLC.

Greater Seattle Area

Advising executive staff on development workflow processes for e-commerce product development. Clients include Nordstrom, Zales, Expedia, and other major national retailers. Driving improvements from inception to implementation.

Microsoft Studios Redmond

• Drove program-management tasks end-to-end including Games-as-a-Service update schedule, design work, documentation creation, documentation review, determining feature sets and milestones, development schedule planning.
• Excellent internal and external peer and management feedback – described as “the best Producer I’ve ever worked with” by multiple industry veterans, and described my efforts as "saving these projects."
• Simultaneously shipped 4 launch games, working with 4 teams at external developer Arkadium. Over the past year worked on up to 10 titles simultaneously with approximately $7M total budget.
• Personally responsible for over $200k annual budgetary savings.
• Managed the Games-as-a-Service delivery of fresh monthly content for all 4 games.

Microsoft Game Studios Redmond

Handled extensive Redmond-area and E3 production responsibilities (demos, E3 media briefing demo, marketing support, commercial/trailer support, etc.) for Kinect Sports: Season 2. Owned production responsibilities around an extremely complicated staggered release schedule for Xbox Live's 1vs100.Test lead across a number of projects at Microsoft (Game).

Microsoft Redmond

Filled a variety of rolls during this time period - the initial, sole member of the Networking Virtual Build Lab's (NetVBL) BVT team. An individual contributor on the Networking Configuration and Test Team (NCITEST), simultaneously with the previous role, then promoted to the lead of that team. And finally, a lead on the Office Live Meeting team, then.