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Redwood City, Ca, Us

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Presently directing multiple technical workstreams to advance centralizing EA core metric reporting to improve insights available for portfolio management.Delivered a solution to support regional pricing for EA mobile games, defining a release management mechanism for our team in the process. Defined and drove the delivery of the analytics data platform migration of a major EA Mobile acquisition, which included: 1) defining the overall strategy for completely replacing the analytics pipeline for the acquired studio; 2) forming a strike-force composed of resources on four separate organizations, to support the initiative; 3) identify and removing/mitigating impediments, risks and issues to ultimately drive a successful delivery; 4) driving backlog grooming, planning, and all scrum ceremonies for the strike force; 5) delivering effective stakeholder communications across several EA organizations through delivery;Defined and maintained a new management process for EA Unity licensing, including defining critical addendums to the license agreements, and managed the development direction of the EA Unity Support engineering team.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Planned and executed five programs that supported localization pipelines for AWS. Built and maintained eight localization-related project plans by partnering with product management, operations, engineering, and executive stakeholders. Managed sustainment efforts for six localization-related products in live operations. Managed the engineering backlog and Scrum ceremonies, including coordination of backlog management with several other engineering teams across AWS to ensure products launched on time with within budget. Provided regular status reporting on launch progress.Developed and maintained KPIs to track project quality, delivery and predictability, and engineering team velocity. Managed a risk and issue queue, including mitigations strategies.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Responsible for delivering the AAA+ game MTG Arena to China (and neighboring regions). Worked with executive stakeholders to design an implementation strategy to fulfill contractual agreements critical to delivering MTG Arena in China; served as senior technical producer responsible for launching the game in China; assembled implementation team to integrate the game with the Chinese game platform including a redesign to operate the game on AWS; managed the tactical technical production efforts, including grooming a backlog, managing a Scrum for our internal development team, as well as our Chinese partner team; producing the localization requirements for China, which included designing a new localization pipeline to accommodate changes to text, visual art, and video/audio effects.I worked on several other efforts that were critical to the successful delivery of MTG Arena to the global market. These efforts began as we stood up the Digital Studio that produces MTG Arena, and include numerous platform solutions that are the backbone of the game (e.g. Accounts, Real-money Transaction, and Code Redemption), as well as supporting the creation of the Business Intelligence and Economy Design organizations.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Successfully delivered a large game tournament management tool, and designed and launched several technical debt projects that resulted in a dramatic reduction of code complexity and infrastructure and maintenance costs for of the Wizards of the Coast Platform Services.

Arlington, Va, Us

Supporting multiple conservation projects within the Emerald Coast region. Responsibilities included: Developing project templates that included resource management and risk mitigation strategies; setting up project management processes that are uniquely suited for each project team; coaching key project managers to ensure successful implementation of new project efforts.

Snoqualmie, Washington, Us

Led software development on next-generation non-destructive inspection services. Responsibilities included: Providing oversight to geographically dispersed teams of 20 and managing a $7 MM budget; shipping flagship data analysis product within budget and on time for market field trials; delivering 7 additional major releases over 3 years, managing product migration of 5 products from Unix to Windows, resulting in reduced maintenance costs and software licensing costs up to $1 MM annually; decreasing QA costs by 50% by redesigning test processes and customizing test management software.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed software releases for the Microsoft/MSN Publishing Platform. Responsibilities included: Managing communications between varying business units to guarantee smooth and timely delivery of products and updates; defining software release schedules, defining release success criteria,; creating and maintaining risk mitigation plans; directing bug triage for teams of 20-25 people; writing and/or editing product functional specifications.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Assisted with development and configuration of web portal using open source technologies including Plone/Zope. Donated my time to this non-profit as a volunteer.

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Responsible for managing data-warehouse projects for a DVR company. Responsibilities included: Designing and implementing of business intelligence and telemetry reporting solutions for the “Moxi” DVR; writing and.or editing functional product specifications; creating product implementation schedules and managing release schedule for data-warehousing projects which were part of a larger design that earned Digeo an “Advanced Media Technology” Emmy®.

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Principle web architect and developer for all web applications and services and content manager for company web sites. Responsibilities included: Developing corporate web site and intranet/extranet web sites; selecting, configuring and managing the company-wide CMS;