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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Saskatchewan, Canada, Remote

Team Leadership and Quality Assurance: Manage a team of 20 testers and oversees quality assurance (QA) throughout the product lifecycle. This includes triaging player feedback, recording bugs, and promptly correcting issues. Video Game Design, Programming, and Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as team lead and lead programmer for game design and development, fostering collaborative efforts with core team of 5 stakeholders in order to complete timely, high-quality product builds. User Interface Design and Systems Design: Take on a broad range of duties, including gameplay, level, environment, UI, and system design. Marketing Management, Graphic Design, and Community Engagement: Manage all marketing efforts, including graphic design for advertisements and community engagement. Large System Implementations and Scripting: Created and implemented a proprietary, script-based engine addon, which provided a foundation to rapidly implement new systems, features, and assets at a large scale. Project Development, Team Management, and Debugging: Published multiple builds of an innovative project in early access, maintained 100 monthly active testers, and implemented an effective debugging pipeline for rapid iteration.

Saskatchewan, Canada

Business Management, Needs Assessment, and Technical Support: Head all aspects of business, providing rapid response to IT issues within 24 hours. Employ hands-on approach that focuses on meeting client needs, diagnosing inefficiencies and weaknesses, and delivering simple solutions. Team Collaboration and Problem Solving: Collaborate with in-house technical teams and clients to walk through IT issues and promptly resolve problems. Solution Implementation and Information Technology Training: Analyze IT systems and infrastructures, provide insights on IT best practices, and support the implementation of new solutions and applications. To date, trained 40 personnel (clients and their staff members) on new IT systems. Software Installation, Hardware Installation, and Cost Allocation: Install necessary updates to software and hardware and allocate costs to stay within budget. Computer Repair and Cloud Storage: Recovered a damaged computer, saving 10 years’ worth of accounting records. Provided an ideal cloud-based solution and installed a secure, on-site replacement. Network Troubleshooting: Restored entire network of devices within 2 hours of major power loss event, minimizing operational disruptions. Internet Troubleshooting and Cost Savings: Repaired a misconfigured cellular internet solution, saving 80% of upfront costs compared to traditional cable solution.