• Led a diverse team of developers, navigating complex project management across multiple time zones, enhancing team efficiency and project delivery timelines. • Innovated people-centric production processes in ambiguous environments, leveraging Scrum and Agile methodologies to streamline workflow and enhance product quality.

• Spearheaded the expansion of Astra's developer and partner ecosystem, establishing pivotal global relationships with developers and platforms through strategic outreach and partnerships.• Orchestrated Astra's game selection process, employing a data-driven approach to analyze game performance and market trends, which informed the greenlighting of projects that drove portfolio diversity and success. • Presented portfolio games to first-party platforms (Xbox, PlayStation) to secure deals and partnerships to amplify their success. Secured new business initiatives like bundles and event participation for games.

• Pioneered milestone review processes as the first production hire, enhancing project alignment and efficiency across multiple projects and platform workflows.• Innovated game support strategies for all signed titles, significantly improving team collaboration and project delivery timelines by implementing creative approaches to production challenges. • Led user research initiatives for portfolio games through meticulous playtesting and survey tools.

• Managed the end-to-end publishing process for games in Modus' publishing portfolio and supported the greenlight process for games.• Tackled complex problems in maintaining project quality, team coordination, release management, QA, localization, PC and console platform backends, age ratings, and user research.

• Taught girls ages 12-18 all fundamentals of game development (design, art, music, programming, etc.). Instructing them on how to develop games in Construct 3, helping them to overcome technical challenges and bugs.• Planned and set deadlines for student's projects, keeping the scope for their projects manageable.• Led girls to each create their very own game from start to finish in a two-week span, ensuring that they had a polished portfolio piece to exhibit.

• Developed a research game in Unity alongside a graduate researcher to test children’s cognitive development, resulting in more nuanced data for our study than was acquired previously with paper tests.• Collected relevant studies and extracted their data into an excel spreadsheet to provide support to senior researchers. This allowed us to target our research game towards specific areas based on the interventions we were supplying.• Tested game to ensure a positive user experience and that proper metrics could be acquired from player feedback. This caught bugs from our eye-tracking software and made sure that our user interface functioned properly.

• Created social media posts and interacted with followers daily, raising our follower count and audience engagement.• Wrote an editorial blog weekly using SEO techniques to engage with our current audience and attract new audiences. This raised our domain authority and ensured we were on the first page of Google search results for key topics.• Updated Squarespace website with backlinks and calls to action, increasing purchase conversions. • Wrote email campaigns in Mailchimp using a data-driven approach to increase sales and engagements, rose click-through rates with targeted keywords.

• Created content for editorial and social channels to increase brand awareness. Posted on social media daily, shot and edited Youtube videos weekly, and wrote a blog post a week.• Cultivated a sense of community through organizing events that typically reached about 200 people. This included marketing for the events, coordinating volunteers, and reaching out to other organizations for donations.

Researched and wrote news stories for the City News desk. Interviewed subjects as needed and applied creative problem-solving skills when issues arose. Adhered to strict deadlines.

• Built relationships between local businesses and the festival through product partnerships, increasing our audience and raising revenue.• Developed and implemented marketing, social media, and e-newsletter campaigns to promote community engagement.

Oversaw a team of editors through the curation and compilation of an award-winning literary magazine. Guided about 13 students through the reading and evaluation of submissions in batches from anywhere between 50 to 100 pieces per cycle. Set and maintained the publishing schedule and managed relations with authors.