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Sacramento, Us

Schenectady, New York, Us

As the Producer Manager at Atomic Theory, I was responsible for managing the production team and ensuring the successful execution of client projects. My responsibilities encompassed overseeing the entire production lifecycle for multiple client engagements, from project inception to successful delivery. Additionally, I served as a key member of the Atomic Theory leadership team, driving business growth by collaborating with the studio GM and Business Development team in developing and negotiating winning proposals and contracts.

Schenectady, New York, Us

As the Lead Producer at Rocket Science, I was responsible for overseeing the entire production process from start to finish. I built and managed our team of talented producers, ensuring they had the resources and support they needed to succeed. I also played a key role in maintaining strong relationships with our clients, understanding their needs, and delivering exceptional results.In addition to my day-to-day responsibilities, I was involved in setting the strategic direction for our production department. I worked closely with company leadership to define clear goals and objectives that aligned with the overall business strategy. This involved everything from developing new processes and workflows to identifying opportunities for growth.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

EA Industrial Toys | Battlefield MobileResponsible for refining and managing the live service release process for Battlefield Mobile, including release scheduling, issue resolution, and overall communications with the development teams and stakeholders. - Partnered with EA's customer support, legal, certification, and release management teams to resolve issues and obtain all necessary approvals in order to go live with the Closed Alphas, Closed Betas, and Soft Launch release phases. - Coordinated between EA's customer support and localization teams and the development teams to align tech integrations into the app to support the live service needs. - Supported feature and engineering development teams as their production partner to plan, scope, and achieve their sprint and milestone goals.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Maxis | Unannounced Project (Cancelled) Responsible for prioritizing development and guiding multiple development content and backend teams through milestone checkpoints. - Worked closely with EA’s social platform teams to identify desired features for the title and had regular check-in to review progress and provide project updates. - Set priorities for Sprints and Milestones to meet Pre-Production goals.- Reviewed player experienced data that was collected by the EA User Experience team to help identify player motivations and expectations in order to validate our hypothesis of the title gameplay, art style, and elevator pitch messaging.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Red Crow/EA Mobile | The Simpsons: Tapped Out (Mobile)Lead Producer for The Simpsons: Tapped Out that was responsible for content development updates, scheduling, live service response, development team management, and licensor approvals.- Successfully launched 50 content updates for the title and consistently beat yearly revenue and player engagement targets. - Created year long content and feature roadmap development plans and responsible for aligning development team, executive, licensor, and development partners to those plans.- Ensured a constant and consistent schedule of major and minor new content updates by working closely with internal cross-discipline teams and external development partners. - Directly managed and mentored the design, engineering, and art leads as well as the development manager and associate producer.

Doom (2016), Fallout 76, BattleCry (cancelled)Associate Producer and Scrum Master for multi-disciplinary teams responsible for development and release of new content, infrastructure, and security services for single player and online multiplayer gameplay for DOOM, DOOM DLC 1/2/3, Fallout 76, and BattleCry. - Worked closely with Senior Production team to create and maintain milestone schedules and production plans of new content and tech development. These plans were used to identify key dates and help the development teams make informed decisions about the priorities for gameplay development. - Coordinated Product Owners, Production, and Development teams to pivot as necessary due to changes in milestone, release dates, or scope change and develops achievable mitigation plans to develop high quality content.

BattleCry (cancelled) - Responsible for creating and implementing QA processes and practices for BattleCry Studios.- Coordinated testing between multiple studios in for focus testing, general balance/functionality testing, demos, and evaluations. - Evaluated and implemented QA bug tracking tool and workflow (Hansoft).- Worked directly with QA management, production, and development team to discuss test scheduling and issues.- Diagnosed and communicated issues at a high-quality level (i.e., complex bug troubleshooting and scheduling conflicts) to upper management.- Tracking and management of the daily workload of the embedded test team.- Effectively and objectively communicating the status of the project to both the production and development teams as well as QA management.

Edmonton, Alberta, Ca

Star Wars: The Old Republic- Responsible for coordinating testing initiatives between Production, Development, and QA departments to create short and long-term testing schedules and goals in order to provide full testing coverage for new and emergent content and features for Star Wars: The Old Republic. - Prioritizing testing requests to ensure the highest quality of delivered content.- Analyzing issue report data to create risk analyses of testing initiatives and developed effective testing strategies utilized by in-house and outsource testing groups.- Managing the embedded QA analysts team (10+ testers) and outsourced QA teams (60+ testers)- Providing guidance in prioritization of tasks, creation of testing materials, and quality of work.- Developing full end to end test schedules and strategies in order to ensure all user facing and back end functionality was of the highest possible quality. - Prioritizing emergent testing requests against testing schedules.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

As the Quality Assurance Lead I managed multiple Quality Assurance teams for the MMORPG titles Tabula Rasa, City of Heroes, and several unannounced MMO titles. Successfully launched all phases of the Beta tests, live launch, and major updates for Tabula Rasa and major updates for City of Heroes from the quality assurance testing standpoint.As a Senior QA Tester I performed live testing for the MMORPG City of Heroes, created testing procedures, and trained new testers.As a QA tester I preformed regular QA testing duties for the MMORPG City of Heroes.

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Quality Assurance Tester on Ultima Online: Lord Blackthorn's Revenge (2002), Ultima Online: Age of Shadows (2003), and Ultima X: Odyssey (canceled).

Computer Systems Management

Visual Communication Design, Graphic And Web Page Design