Ready to optimize your build system and save costs or define your studio's IT strategy? Let's connect and explore the opportunities!Studio Foundations provides templatized build systems supporting Unreal and Unity to quickly deploy, configure, and get reliable and cost-effective builds running for game studios. Our Fractional CIO services provide partnerships at the level you need to help define your studios roadmaps and build initial teams for IT, DevOps, QA, and more!

Recruited to build and lead the DevOps and Shared Services organization from the ground up to support five studios to create games and platforms for mobile, console, and PC. This included recruiting, onboarding, and supporting 150+ remote developers, artists, and other cross-functional team members. ▪ Developed CI/CD platforms & pipelines to improve reliability of builds and increase iteration speed.▪ Design, implement, deploy, and scale multi-region backend cloud services utilizing cost controls in AWS & Azure.▪ Optimized creative development for five game studios by defining QA methodology and scaling processes to streamline workflow and remove technical/operational roadblocks. ▪ Expedited prototype delivery by six weeks by developing an Unreal 5 integrated build system.▪ Created a standardized playbook for spinning up new studios, resulting in significant cost savings, reducing burn rate, increasing velocity, boosting security, and faster achievement of critical milestones like playable demos and vertical slices while reducing headcount to achieve set goals. ▪ Increased security and reliability by building out and seamlessly migrating to new AWS and Azure infrastructure.▪ Identified and mitigated risk with best practices in a net-new InfoSec program for compliance, audit, and data privacy.▪ Partnered with studios to define data structures and build platforms for telemetry collection &utilization.

Hired to build out and lead a multidisciplinary DevOps department within a new technology organization to support a fully cloud-based environment enabling new product development and rapid growth. ▪ Designed and built a high-performing, auto-scaling, multi-region cloud-engineering data platform to increase security, velocity, reliability, quality, and scalable processes. ▪ Consistently achieved iterative milestones, budgets, and above-company average engagement scores by developing multi-year strategic roadmaps.▪ Drove revenue growth and profitability by successfully negotiating a five-year enterprise cloud agreement while optimizing infrastructure spend.▪ Grew data platform to 20% single-region and 375% multi-region spike capacity above peak.▪ Achieved average response time of one minute on a 30-minute SLA for production incidents.▪ Seamlessly migrated ~320M users to Aurora Postgres with zero downtime, reducing infrastructure costs by ~$4.5M annually. ▪ Reduced test environment buildout time from 7+ days to less than two hours by automating manual processes.▪ Spearheaded incident and risk management strategies to identify patterns and implement corrective actions to resolve bugs and mitigate user-impacting issues.▪ Built a high-performing cross-functional team by recruiting, onboarding, and retaining top talent and cultivating a culture of collaboration and mutual respect to consistently achieve zero unwanted attrition.▪ Optimized product delivery by mentoring peers and ICs on standardized processes and Agile best practices.

Promoted to lead the eCP DevOps group to enable continuous delivery for 7K+ users across six global business units. ▪ Recruited, mentored, and retained a high-performing global team of 95+ members with zero unwanted attrition. ▪ Drove continuous improvement of key processes by developing roadmaps with retrospective analysis and action plans. ▪ Reduced test environment buildout time from 7+ days to less than two hours. ▪ Provided an integrated CI/CD platform with 24x5 support.