Derek Bronson Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Managed three teams working on the Open 3D Engine (formally known as Lumberyard) focusing on the asset pipeline, networking and AWS integrations.

Greater Seattle Area

Managing a team responsible for the issuance, validation and revocation of SSL certificates as part of Amazon Certificate Manager.

Greater Seattle Area

Seattle, Washington

Bellevue

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

I managed a launch team of TPMs for Amazon Go and established the launch drum beat for the pilot store.

Greater Seattle Area

I was on the core TPM for the new Amazon Lumberyard game engine. My primary focus was the creation of the new AWS product Amazon GameLift which helps game developers create, manage and scale servers for their online games.• I helped drive Amazon GameLift from ideation to creation. Initially focusing on vision and roadmap definition and then switching to execution.• Drove the definition of the pricing strategy for Amazon GameLift.• Worked across 20+ AWS organizations to get support for the GameLift launch.• Managed the migration from Rally to JIRA. This included setting up the initial project structure and providing examples for teams on how to best utilize JIRA for agile management.• Setup the structure for launch readiness reporting for the launch of Amazon Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift.

Greater Seattle Area

I was on the Launch team for the Amazon Fire Phone. • I was the release manager for the first point release and the international expansion of the Fire Phone. Defining and driving key program milestones, reviewing program status daily and ensuring all teams were aligned on requirements.• For the 1.0 launch, I drove the use of JIRA/Confluence for reviewing the overall status of the program across multiple teams/projects.• Drove interactions with the UX team and the team responsible for the unique 3D UI. This included defining design specifications, driving schedules across both teams and helping find unique solutions to help bring designs ideas to reality.

Greater Seattle Area

As a program manager I acted as an interface between UX and engineering in a complete redesign of the UX for the Amazon Fire Phone. I was responsible for the following:• Establishing schedules for the engineering team• Working with the UX and engineering teams to solidify specs• Helping the UX team understand the underlying technology so they could take full advantage in their designs

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

• Produced and designed 3 Step Studio, a multi-million dollar project aimed at helping young aspirational game developers get started making their first games, from concept to launch with a team of web developers, artists, engineers, designers, doc writers and marketers. Currently working on an updated release with the same team.• Managed an R&D game engine project and acted as tool design lead.• Worked with the CEO and company owners on setting the company strategy for 2012.• Produced the most recent update to Torque 3D, GarageGames’ main game engine, which featured a 100+ page tutorial, new art, features and improvements to the engine and tools and updates to the website.• Designed and managed a website update that helped create a hub for information about the product, community interaction and documentation.

Las Vegas, Nv

I was the Associate Producer / Project Manager for our Torque line of game engines.• Worked with the Program Manager on developing new agile project management processes, which resulted in more accurate forecasting and a higher degree of quality.• Developed strategy as part of a business development team for the Torque game engine business unit, resulting in several new promising initiatives.• Sparked new relationships with other key business units in the company, increasing Torque’s internal credibility and starting new cross unit projects.• Worked with our legal team on all contracts that went through the Torque engine division, which increased the overall accuracy of our contracts and helped speed up contract approval.• Implemented SCRUM alongside our current waterfall practice leading to a hybrid approach of project management which allowed for rapid development while still maintaining high level plans and dates.

Eugene, Oregon Area

As a 3rd Party Development Manager my role was to manage our online 3rd party marketplace of extensions for our Torque line of game engines. This included art assets, code extensions, music assets, full game kits and more.• Brought over 40 new products to our developer store, greatly increasingly the stores revenues.• Worked with 3rd party developers to produce solutions that targeted our unique customer base.• Established key partnerships with other middleware developers which increased our brand exposure and drove new sales.• Helped drive strategic decisions for our business unit as a whole, resulting in new platform development and our most successful product launch to date.

Eugene, Oregon Area

• Developed business plans for various educational initiatives that increased our exposure and sales.• Worked with various levels of management to provide them with information on our unit for better decision making.• Helped drive direct sales for both education and other commercial customers.• Demonstrated our technology to potential customers which increased our customer acquisition percentage.