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Austin, TX, US

Mountain View, WY, US

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Worldwide, US

• Led and managed a nationwide Technical Product Ownership and Quality Assurance Team, distributed across diverse business sectors.
• Leveraged historical expertise to drive transformative enhancements within the IS organization, identifying and communicating areas of improvement to both teams and leadership.
• Championed the adoption and refinement of Agile methodologies.
• Mentored Technical Product Owners, equipping them with essential tools for effective product domain ownership.
• Collaborated with the QA Lead to strategize and implement future enhancements to QA processes.
• Conducted consistent Agile coaching sessions across various project teams.

Virginia Beach, VA, US

• Overseeing a worldwide Engineering organization of 40+ team members, spread across the various pillars of the business.
• Mentoring and developing Engineering leaders and giving teams the Agile/problem-solving tools they need to run Scrum/Kanban effectively.
• Collected/aggregated information from Product Leadership to build out roadmap visualizations, which were used to level-set the group on what we were getting done when, but also to assist in defining our staffing plan.
• Creating and maintaining an immediate and long-term staffing plan and then executing on said plan, which included doubling the size of the Engineering organization.
• Overseeing and improving the Engineering recruiting process, largely through the use of my Interview Kit system.
• Worked with other leaders in Engineering to define a staffing plan document that could easily be shared with our staffing/contracting partners in an effort to swiftly fill open reqs.

Austin, TX, US

• Overseeing a nationwide Engineering organization, broken up into 5 groups: Infrastructure, Front-end, Back-end, Native Apps, and Data Engineering.
• Mentoring and developing leaders on each of the Engineering teams.
• Overseeing, managing, and making improvements to the Project and Scrum Process used by the entire organization.
• Project Management responsibilities for the entire Engineering department, including driving sync meetings and project retrospectives.
• Researching and developing improvements to the way the organization plans roadmaps.
• Overseeing the recruiting process for the entire organization.

Austin, Texas, US

• Managing Engineers on 5 various Scrum Teams – a total of 18 Engineers on 4 Features Teams and the Business Intelligence Team.
• Using past experience to make meaningful, impactful improvements to the Product Development organization; getting us ready for an increased scale in operations.
• Bridge the gap between Engineers and Architects to help Engineering Leadership build Technology Objectives for 2020.
• Work with Product Leadership to build an overall organization Roadmap for our 2020 Platform objectives.
• Worked with other Product and Engineering Leaders to oversee the Product Development re-organization, an effort to improve focus and efficiency.
• Developed an Engineer Career Path and Performance Evaluation Process, based on rollouts I had done at previous organizations.

CH

• Focusing on transitioning day-to-day responsibilities to our Team Leads so that I can focus on our long-term department initiatives. This includes handing off Sprint ceremonies and several of my 1-1's with the ICs.
• Overseeing all of the major projects that Software Engineering is involved in.
• Researching and Developing improvements to the way the organization uses JIRA Portfolio.
• Overseeing the interview process and hiring of several Lead positions within the organization. This included making improvements to our interview take-home assignments.
• Developed a new project process to address issues with the clarity of requirements and the accuracy of estimates.
• Put into place a new resource management road-map to help the organization better plan what our Engineers are working on to reduce context-switching.

CH

• Leading a worldwide team of 20+ developers, to deliver innovative, consumer facing solutions for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows platforms, enjoyed by millions of customers.
• Dev Manager, Scrum Master, and Project Management responsibilities for 10 Software Engineering teams.
• Mentoring and developing leaders on each of the Software Engineering teams.
• Liaison with Product Management, Sales, Marketing, and Operational Stakeholders through all facets of an initiative’s lifecycle (roadmap planning, definition, execution, and release).
• Team Goal planning, Annual Reviews, and career planning. This included developing a clearer way of communicating progress and areas of focus for individual contributors.
• Work with developers on a bi-weekly basis to create and maintain personal goals.

Austin, TX, US

• Led a nationwide team of 13+ developers and remote contractors.
• Successfully performed multiple functions for three development teams, including Scrum Master and Project Management.
• Developed processes to improve resource management, code quality, and scoping.
• Improved documentation company-wide by getting all departments on a single platform.
• Responsible for Team Goal planning, Annual Reviews, and career planning.
• Worked with developers frequently to create and maintain personal goals.

Las Vegas, Nevada, US

• Developed over two dozen games, including the “Smokin’ Hot Jackpots” series.
• Created template modules for all games and sub-games to be built from; templates that were used by the entire Game Development department.
• Collaborated with product management to create the Feature Scope document, so that anyone could see how long any feature takes to develop.
• Created and maintained the Game Programmer Checklist; a checklist for developers to go through before submitting a game to QA, which led to a large decrease in defects reported on games.
• Collaborated with QA and production leadership to optimize the game submission process.
• Worked with art and programming leadership to create a standard structure for art folders, which made learning our development process much easier for new hires.

• Developed UI for “Sims 3” and “Sims 3 Pets” on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
• Created the Trait module to be used by multiple other gameplay and UI systems.
• Architected the "Town Map" mode of the game, and ensured that it remained robust and modular.
• Implemented several UI components to be used by artists and scripters alike.
• Worked with programming leadership to develop a process in which programmers, scripters, and artists could all share useful information with one another.

• Worked on several Nintendo Wii games, including “Family Fun Football”.
• Designed and implemented a grid-based and vector-based path-finding system.
• Developed a robust ball-catching system that allowed designers and animators to easily make any gameplay or visual changes.
• Implemented systems that would expose behavior attributes to designers.
• Designed an intermediate utility UI system that allowed programmers who were unfamiliar with Flash and ActionScript to implement menus.
• Created a game sub-system that allowed mini-games to be easily added and integrated with the game flow.

• Developed the gameplay and UI for the Nintendo Wii game, “Helix”.
• Implemented core gameplay features, including the parsing of song scripts, integration of the HUD.
• Developed the game’s Tutorial and Input System, which both made use of the Facade design pattern.