Objective:To produce creative and innovative games which provide unique gamer experiences and push expectations. Passionate about quality, design, accessibility and most of all fun.Professional Experience:Localization Support Analyst with 5 years of experience driving localizations for Activision, the industry leader in worldwide game publishing. Efficiently managed multiple localization processes on 10+ titles, including the Call of Duty and Guitar Hero series, providing seamless localizations with high quality results. Self-managed, resourceful and exceptional at prioritizing multiple tasks under tight and changing deadlines. Extremely well organized with the flexibility to work within rapidly evolving development environments.• Managed and partnered with multiple cross-functional international teams, including localization project managers, QA and top developers, and production, fostering positive and productive relationships.• Saved valuable time during crunch by proactively identifying and highlighting localization tasks, risks, age rating, and font issues early during localization planning phase. • Increased localization efficiency and accuracy by organizing large amounts of game assets, E-mails, builds and documentation on titles with 8 languages.• Documented the localization process, audio processes and best practices for over 50 production members and 10 developers increasing localization awareness and efficiency.• Motivated and trained over 30 people in teams of up to 8 onsite QA testers in bug reporting and database usage resulting in many promoted to QA leads afterwards.LOCALIZED TITLES SHIPPED- Call of Duty: Black Ops- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare- James Bond: Quantum of Solace - Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock- Guitar Hero 5- Spider-Man: Friend or Foe- Spider-Man 3 - Singularity- BlurSpecialties: Production, localization, collaboration with international and cross-functional teams, task and asset management.Localization Languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Korean, & JapaneseDevelopment Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3, Wi, NDS, PSP, PCTools: Xloc, Devtrack, Bugzilla, Perforce, Rsync, FTPApplications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, PhotoshopProgramming Languages: Java, C++, PHP, HTML, Regular Expressions, MS DOS Batch files