One of the EdTech Lobby's consultants I specialise in Digital Strategy, Gamification and Games design, Digital Design, project managment, and QA managament.

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► Lead the design and creative output for Picaro World and related products. ► Hands-on project work and digital creative direction. ► Complete control of the product lifecycle. ► Management of multidisciplinary teams worldwide. ► Collaboration with other key departments including Content, sales, and academics.

Improve our blended learning game Picaro, add Gamification to new and existing digital products. ► Create, refine the game design documentation for our classroom games.► The creation and design of a new B2C version of our educational Picaro Games.► Adding gamification across all of our products. Project management and all aspects of digital design for Kaplan Digital English.► Manage overseas team in the Americanization of 64 educational books► Using Illustrator and In-Design to create promotional materials for trade shows, create online digital content for existing customers, edit our print materials.► Using Adobe premiere to create promotional videos for trade shows. Provide all of the QA testing/planning of all of our digital products, ► The creation, design and implementation of test plans, test cases and test suites.► Manual testing through the software development life-cycle.► Working to Agile methodologies, working directly with developers.► Managing our team of external developers, being the main point of contact between our developers and Stakeholders in Kaplan. ► Managing and performing UAT with international students in various institutions including schools in Budapest and schools in East London.I also provide customer/technical support to all of our international distributors and schools.

QA TESTER & GAMES DESIGN (PROMOTION)KAPLAN INTERNATIONAL ENGLISHAugust 2014 - February 2015 (7 months)Promotion within Kaplan and I was given additional responsibilities, including;► The submission of QA Summary reports to stakeholders at the end of test cycles.► Being the main point of contact for developers and stakeholders when management was absent► Design of test cases and test suites ► Responsibility for testing the K+ Skills eXtra study aid product.► Responsible for ensuring the app "Lost In The Jungle" was successfully submitted to the app store 1st time.Re-design of the interactive e-book/game "Jungle Survival" (formally known as Lost In The Jungle)► Complete change of narrative to make the plot more engaging for our target audience► Game Lead for project, managment of writers, artist and Development team. ► Mapping out of multiple pathways and scenarios with an author in order to design gameplay and narrative. ► Creation of a GDD for LITJ. ► Addition of Gamification Features & Gameplay features. Contribution to design and gameplay of Picaro World Games► Implemeted various changes in order to improve gameplay and "fun element"► Revision and implementation of GDD ► UAT and Beta Testing of games in the classroom. Products worked on;► Picaro World Classroom Game ► K+ Skills eXtra - Interactive Study Aid ► Picaro (LMS) Learning Management System ► Lost In The Jungle (Renamed: Jungle Survival) Interactive E-Book GAMES QA TESTERKAPLAN INTERNATIONAL ENGLISHFebruary 2014 - August 2014 (7 months)The initial role within Kaplan was to provide testing, support for the product Picaro English, a series of 960 games designed for the classroom to aid young learners in ESL studies. Products worked on;► Picaro Game - Offline desktop version► Picaro Game - Mobile version for Android & iOS

Preparation of vinyl’s and decals for installation, preparation of artwork for cutting and client’s approval using Adobe Illustrator.

Responsible for Certification testing of Microsoft Xbox 360 software to very short & tight test cycles using Microsoft certification tools and procedures.► Xbox Certification skills (TCR) ► BlackBox testing► Completion of multiple test cycles in a day.

Provided testing and support for Xbox 360 titles, projects worked on include;► Sesame Street TV for Kinect (Xbox 360)► Fable: The Journey (Xbox 360)Tasks included:► Following Test Cases ► BlackBox Testing ► Assisting with Beta Testing with the Public► Assisting with Voice recognition data capture for the Xbox Kinect

This was my first experience of QA testing, the title I worked on was;► All Zombies Must Die (Playstation/PC/Steam)