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Chief representative of the business’s interests on the development team.-Own features and processes; ensuring the team is aligned throughout development.-Act as the primary communication point between multiple teams, departments, and stakeholders.-Ensure that project objectives, strategies and designs are executed while adhering to the development timeline and budget.-Identify and communicate roadblocks and align the team to overcome various hurdles and challenges. -Assist launches by ensuring marketing and external partners are aware of game content and development milestones.

Responsible for the successful delivery of complex, cross-functional projects on time and with high quality.• Work closely with the Executive Producer and development leads on priorities, timelines, and resource planning.• Coordinate with business development and client services to quickly deliver pre-production documentation for customer proposals.• Lead teams of engineers, designers, artists, medical researchers, and others throughout project life cycles.• Manage risks, drive solutions, track deliverables, and communicate status.• Collaborate with marketing, business development, operations, client solutions, and other departments.• Establish and execute project goals and initiatives.

Manage the activities of a team of Project Managers to ensure best in class project delivery along with consistent, standardized, and high-quality project delivery artifacts.• Identify, manage, and communicate cross-functional project dependencies.• Guide, monitor, and coach project teams on project management standards.• Determine frequency and content of status reports from project managers, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas/mitigate project risks.• Effectively summarize project status information to support stakeholder meetings.• Analyzing financial data, including project budgets, risks, and resource allocation.• Drafting new and improving existing project management office policies and processes.• Maintain communication with leadership team, ensuring awareness of potential roadblocks, risks or challenges and proposing solutions.

-Participate in defining the content deliverables, milestones, and various decisions pertaining to the necessary modifications (changes to be brought by certain milestones, etc.) and implement new problem-solving processes;-Organise and coordinate the different activities and resources necessary to the production process (planning, tests, debugging, shifts, vacation leaves, etc.);-Assess workloads when defining the scope in order to help the teams;-Understand the game’s vision so as to intervene effectively when defining the scope;-Ensure the proper bug management of the deliverables;-Identify, validate, and communicate the resource and skills needs of the team;-Carry out and/or validate the team’s performance assessments;-Identify and manage bad performance and/or interpersonal conflicts;-Participate in identifying the technical training, management, and team needs;-Efficiently communicate with team members so that they are informed of current projects and theadvancement of the work;

Responsible for the long-term vision, development, and maturation of the European IT Project Management Office (PMO). Directs activities for multiple Regional initiatives, support complex global projects, ensuring that the initiative's business needs are addressed effectively and as agreed upon with the business partners. Accountable for all strategic project-related processes, training needs, tools and documentation delivering value and meeting quality standards, budgets, and deadlines.- Build & maintain an overall IT portfolio plan, balancing activities in agreement with the IT Senior team to assess & accommodate proposed changes to project prioritization.- Use expert-level knowledge and skill in the IT PMO discipline to build and mature best practice project management methodology, tools, and training across the European region.- Provide coaching, mentoring, and training to project managers

Work with business leaders to translate business strategies into project roadmaps to achieve strategic goals. Develop project plans, charters and schedules that support business needs and follow the established project methodology, standards, and best practices. Initiatives accomplished through worldwide coordination with multiple departments, development studios and vendors.

Responsible for managing the complete life cycle of moderately to highly complex projects, including planning, scheduling, budgets, managing risks, and coordinating cross-discipline interactions. Facilitate definition of requirements, manage project scope, request project resources and ensure planned results are achieved on time.- Proactively track and maintain the development schedule daily, identifying and fixing inter-dependencies early before they become problematic.- Perform Cost Account Management reviews, with focus on expediting variance reporting and Program Change Request.- Coordinate the identification of risk and formation of mitigation plans before the project is negatively impacted.- Manage multiple projects simultaneously at different stages of production from planning to final delivery.- Maintain effective line of communications with internal and external project stakeholders.- Write progress reports and present them to team.- Attend client meetings and guide them through processes.

Experienced in all aspects of visual database development including analysis, design, production, modification, testing, integration, scheduling, source gathering, quality control and configuration management.- Lead team in design and development as a technical and process leader in the database development group.- Develop program cost and schedules, in addition to providing technical oversight for multiple projects.- Work in a fast-paced production environment with ability to handle multiple competing tasks and demands simultaneously.