Erin (Browes) Mcmorris Email & Phone Number

British Columbia, Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Developing strategic plans and roadmaps and ensuring execution for the Frostbite Audio and Movie technologies. Interpreting the business' short and long-term goals, foreseeing possible risks, managing team development challenges, and coming up with solutions to resolve roadblocks. Coaching the leadership team and determining ambitious yet attainable deadlines. Communicating progress and liaising with stakeholders.

Burnaby, Bc

Vancouver, Canada Area

Burnaby, Bc

Leading a team of 16 people as Product Owner, we recently completed the transition of 50 disparate products to support XBoxOne and PS4. This included the creation of several new product suites specific to the new consoles.Using an Agile development methodology, I'm responsible for prioritizing the groups projects, brokering requirements with stakeholders, and enabling product teams to succeed in delivering tools that give a strategic advantage to EA. As an example, part of my… Show more Leading a team of 16 people as Product Owner, we recently completed the transition of 50 disparate products to support XBoxOne and PS4. This included the creation of several new product suites specific to the new consoles.Using an Agile development methodology, I'm responsible for prioritizing the groups projects, brokering requirements with stakeholders, and enabling product teams to succeed in delivering tools that give a strategic advantage to EA. As an example, part of my team provides critical development and support for EA’s PC and Mac installer and DRM technologies. These technologies are used on products like Titanfall and Battlefield 4. This often requires round the clock monitoring of product launch. I provide product direction to ensure high quality, ever evolving technology that hits deadlines, is easy to integrate, remains stable and meets EA’s objectives for slick installs and seamless DRM. Product Team, Technology Areas:- Low level, cross platform technologies for console development- Job management, threading- Memory management- Configuration management technologies- Cross platform build systems- DRM software and encryption technologies- Physical and digital software installation packages for PC and Mac (integrated into EA's Origin client). - Package delivery and technology outsourcing tools- Game patching technologies Show less

Burnaby, Canada

As a Development Director in EA's Core Technologies group I managed a number of products aimed at leveraging economies of scale to bring efficient workflows to EA's development community.Some of the projects I completed:I managed a collaborative project with EA's QA group, to develop an electronic builds transfer system to deliver secure game builds direct to consoles on distributed QA teams without requiring burned media. In order to meet EA's strategic objectives, my team… Show more As a Development Director in EA's Core Technologies group I managed a number of products aimed at leveraging economies of scale to bring efficient workflows to EA's development community.Some of the projects I completed:I managed a collaborative project with EA's QA group, to develop an electronic builds transfer system to deliver secure game builds direct to consoles on distributed QA teams without requiring burned media. In order to meet EA's strategic objectives, my team redesigned our PC software installation system to integrate with Origin, EA’s PC and Mac content delivery system. The team expanded to include EA's proprietary DRM technology suite used on both Windows and Mac. This tech is responsible for ensuring zero-day protection for all of EA’s PC games. I worked with the Configuration Management groups on tools and processes to remove development inefficiencies by adding automated testing workflows, improvements to a NAnt based build system and improving visibility of central technology information in EA. Show less

Burnaby, Canada

My team has built an award winning knowledge management and social networking portal for the enterprise. I have a passion for product development, web and user interface design. As the Product Manager for a technology services and web applications team, I managed a distributed team handling everything from specifications, requirements and design, to QA, customer relations, and the completion of the software's life cycle.- Developed an internal social networking platform, much… Show more My team has built an award winning knowledge management and social networking portal for the enterprise. I have a passion for product development, web and user interface design. As the Product Manager for a technology services and web applications team, I managed a distributed team handling everything from specifications, requirements and design, to QA, customer relations, and the completion of the software's life cycle.- Developed an internal social networking platform, much like LinkedIn or Facebook- Developed Communities of Practice, allowing teams at EA to share and retain knowledge and best practices easily.- Lead enterprise search architect, experienced with MOSS and familiar with GSA. - Developed metrics and telemetry engines and provided dashboards for end user consumption.I won "Speaker of the Day" at the SharePoint 2009 conference as voted by my peers, also, my team won "Customer of the Quarter" from Microsoft in Q2 09. For more information, take a look at the Social Networking case study: http://www.microsoft.com/Casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000004267Also available is "Designing it Right" from the Sharepoint Conference 2009 (https://spc2009.dynamiceventsreg.com/)SpecialtiesSharePoint 2010,SharePoint 2007,SharePoint 2003, html, javascript, css, sql, web development, project management, product management, communications Show less

My team built an award winning knowledge management and social networking portal for the enterprise. I provided product development direction, administration and user interface design. I managed a distributed team spanning three locations on different time zones and handling everything from specifications, design, and customer relations.As part of this effort we launch an extensive comparison between using a Google Search Appliance and SharePoint’s Fast Search Server to… Show more My team built an award winning knowledge management and social networking portal for the enterprise. I provided product development direction, administration and user interface design. I managed a distributed team spanning three locations on different time zones and handling everything from specifications, design, and customer relations.As part of this effort we launch an extensive comparison between using a Google Search Appliance and SharePoint’s Fast Search Server to determine the preferred search solution for EA. In 2009 I attended the SharePoint 2009 conference and won "Speaker of the Day" as voted by my peers. Also, my team won "Customer of the Quarter" from Microsoft in Q2 2009. Show less

My initial position at EA was as a Technical Writer for a team providing middleware technologies. Beyond documentation, some of the projects included adding polish to plug-ins for Maya and working on UI for some core technology. I also enhanced an automated documentation workflow using a modified version of Doxygen.As an outspoken and driven individual, I proposed a significant upgrade to our Tools and Libraries database and web portal. After working on providing an enhanced… Show more My initial position at EA was as a Technical Writer for a team providing middleware technologies. Beyond documentation, some of the projects included adding polish to plug-ins for Maya and working on UI for some core technology. I also enhanced an automated documentation workflow using a modified version of Doxygen.As an outspoken and driven individual, I proposed a significant upgrade to our Tools and Libraries database and web portal. After working on providing an enhanced entry point for internal customers to access information about EA's central technology, I moved into a Product Management role for EA's intranet. Show less

Technical communication, localization, usability testing, international standards compliance (for communication material shipped with products). Designed and implemented a SQL database for documentation control. Produce materials such as technical briefs, end user documentation, quick start guides and marketing materials in online and paper formats.

Project management and communications for a 4 day national skilled trades competition at BC Place (+30000 attendees). Designed and coordinated a 50 page full colour bi-lingual event guide.Created and managed the NFPs website including online registration forms and an online marketing campaign.

Created websites for small businesses (resaurants mostly) as a side project while at university. Though it never really took off, i completed 8? discreet projects including a number that are still operational today.

Various positions in the restaurant and service industry. Managing small teams, scheduling, ordering stock, serving, etc.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Comp Sci, Cmns, Geography

Financial Planning Certificate - Cfp Option, Gpa 86%

Completed the CFP program option in the Financial Management track. Passed the Financial Planning Exam (FPE 1) Fall 2013.

Education record

PMI’s Project Management Professional (PMP) course work