Grant Mcdaniel Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, US

San Francisco, California, US

Worked in this capacity on: Star Wars Hunters

Redwood City, CA, US

• Managed all studio operations, including studio and project budgets, facility requirements, and hardware and software procurements, across multiple studio locations.
• Established new work-from-home pilot program for EA identifying key learnings to share with other studios.
• Was responsible for project scheduling, working with the studio leadership team on prioritization, scope, and quality.
• Managed and mentored multi-discipline project leaders across the studio.
• Identified project staffing needs and managed associated headcount allocations and hiring across our products and locations.
• Acted as Executive Producer for The Simpsons: Tapped Out.

Edmonton, Alberta, CA

• Supported all BioWare Austin studio operations, coordinating with the Edmonton and Montreal studios as well as with other locations within Electronic Arts.
• Member of the studio leadership team responsible for managing all projects and headcount allocations across BioWare.
• Managed and mentored Austin-based Producers and Development Directors across all BioWare projects.
• Coordinated with the project leadership and finance team to help create and maintain quarterly and yearly project P&L’s for Star Wars: The Old Republic.
• Worked in this capacity on: Star Wars: The Old Republic, Shadow Realms (unreleased), Dragon Age Inquisition: The Descent, Mass Effect: Andromeda, and Anthem.

Edmonton, Alberta, CA

• Managed all aspects of the ongoing service of Star Wars: The Old Republic, including coordination across the development, live, community, customer service, marketing, and platform support teams.
• Developed the master project, Beta, and launch plan for Shadow Realms.
• Managed the Audio, Voice Over, and Localization teams in support of multiple BioWare projects.
• Worked in this capacity on: Star Wars: The Old Republic and Shadow Realms (unreleased).

Edmonton, Alberta, CA

• Successfully coordinated the global release of Star Wars: The Old Republic, working with the Development, Live, Marketing, Public Relations, Operations, Quality Assurance, Community, and Customer Service teams.
• Drew upon extensive online game experience to mentor development team members on running a live game product.
• Worked in this capacity on: Star Wars: The Old Republic.

San Diego, CA, US

• Managed day-to-day and long-term operations and scheduling for development teams of up to 100+ people, including production and project leads, to produce original games and game updates.
• Successfully coordinated the multi-platform, global release of DCUO working with Marketing, Public Relations, Operations, Quality Assurance, Community, Customer Service, SCEA, SCEE, and other external organizations.
• Managed prioritization and resolution of top live game issues based on inputs from Quality Assurance, Community, Customer Service, the development team, SOE management, and the DCUO player base.
• Worked in this capacity on: DC Universe Online (PC/PS3).

Austin, TX, US

• Managed day-to-day and long-term operations and scheduling for development teams of up to 65 people, including production and project leads, to produce original games.
• Coordinated development and publishing efforts with the publisher (THQ) and IP owner (Games Workshop), Marketing, Operations, and other external organizations.
• Worked in this capacity on: Darksiders (PS3/360) and Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online.

San Diego, CA, US

• Managed day-to-day and long term operations and scheduling for development teams of up to 75 people to produce original games and game updates.
• Coordinated development and publishing efforts across three studios, with the publisher and IP owner (LucasArts), marketing, Quality Assurance, Customer Service, platform group, and other external organizations.
• Received ScrumMaster certification (CSM).
• Participated in interviews, product demonstrations, and panels with press and community members.
• Worked in this capacity on: Star Wars Galaxies: Live Development, Star Wars Galaxies: Trials of Obi-Wan, Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit, Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Online Adventures, and an unannounced project.

San Diego, CA, US

• Worked with development leads to identify and track tasks for multiple development strike teams comprised of nearly 100 developers.
• Provided reporting for producers and executives, and communicated schedule updates to production teams.
• Worked in this capacity on: Star Wars Galaxies Live Development, Star Wars Galaxies: The Total Experience, and Star Wars Galaxies: Rage of the Wookiees.

San Diego, CA, US

• Managed and deployed client/server game builds to development, test, and live server environments.
• Assisted in prioritization and tracking of development tasks based upon urgency of reported items.
• Worked with the development team leads to identify and implement production process improvements.
• Worked in this capacity on: Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided and Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Managed team of up to fifteen testers, coordinating the software testing effort across five worldwide locations.

• Created game levels and mission content using Lua scripting language.
• Defined designer scripting requirements for programming team.

• QA Supervisor
• Managed department of up to thirty testers, handling staffing and HR requirements.
• Assisted in creation of yearly department budget.
• Worked in this capacity on: Ultima Online 2, Ultima: Ascension, Jane’s A-10 Warthog, Ultima Online: Live, and Chopper Pilot. QA Project Lead / Assistant Lead
• Managed QA teams of up to twenty testers, building and implementing project test plans, creating QA checklists, and administering the bug database.
• Worked in this capacity on: Jane’s F/A-18, Wing Commander: Prophecy Gold, Wing Commander: Secret Ops, Wing Commander: Prophecy, Jane’s Longbow Gold, and Jane’s USNF ’97. QA Tester