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Puerto Rico

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Responsible for scheduling, tracking, and the art pipeline, fielding requests from multiple competing stakeholders and coordinated schedules on a 2-week release cycle, ensuring assets were delivered on time.
• Created a comprehensive tool to forecast work a year in advance, burndown capacity vs scope, and detect potential conflict issues based on live data synchronized with Jira.
• Managed the art pipeline for Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure, focusing on optimizing workflow for seven different teams with downstream scheduling dependencies, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality art.
• Collaborated closely with interdisciplinary creative teams to deliver high-quality art assets and improve creative workflows.
• Created flexible processes to adjust to each discipline’s specific needs, communicating status, risks, schedules, and roadmaps to clearly communicate health of the project.

San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Responsible for the development pipeline for multiple concurrent projects, including scope, budget, and timeline management. Charged with identifying potential issues, assessing impacts to ongoing and upcoming.
• Developed a coordination tool that improved communication and resource distribution among art, design, QA, engineering, and management, forecasting the studio's capacity and upcoming conflicts over a year in advance.
• Delivered over fifty projects covering a wide range of platforms, including mobile, PC, VR, AR, and MR applications, managing 4-7 projects simultaneously at any given time.
• Led globally distributed, multidisciplinary teams, focusing on agile methodologies and effective task tracking, and scheduling.
• Championed process changes to improve team performance based on tracked metrics.
• Coordinate with sister studios on ongoing efforts, staffing needs, and critical issues.

Orlando, Florida Area

Worked on a project-by-project basis as a producer for various studios on projects. Generally responsible for task tracking, budgeting, and establishing and managing processes.

Master’S Degree, Game Design

Bachelor’S Degree, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies