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King's Cross, England, United Kingdom

• Initiated, Designed and Launched Play’n GO’s Game Tools, leading a cross-functional scrum development team of 7 Engineers and QA to improve and unify all tools used to make games.o Created and led product roadmap to.
• Pioneered and launched an “instant replay” feature for our flagship tool, Saving countless hours in troubleshooting.
• Initiated and currently launching an ML/AI-powered solution for integrating Play’n GO’s operational data, enabling significant improvements in operational efficiency, training costs and data-driven decision-making.
• Managed Jurisdictional Compliance leading a team of 6 Engineers, 4 QA and dependencies across multiple departments. Jurisdictional compliance requires the portfolio of over 400 games to remain certified and compliant.

King's Cross, London, United Kingdom

• Designed and launched a solution with the Global Production Management team for migrating all operational game data for over 400 games from a series of spreadsheets and PDFs into a single automated JQL Database. Saving.
• Discovered a wider problem with in-house software and created infrastructure to unite internal software and formed a Scrum Development team to support them. Getting me Promoted to Product Manager.

• Led production of the next pre-production title with a AAA publisher and a bolstered team of excited industry veterans coming from major brands including Microsoft, Meta, Ubisoft & Player Unknown Productions.
• Coordinated production pipelines, processes and supporting infrastructure across all departments in collaboration with department leads under a strict budget.
• Led project costing, budgeting and roadmap planning to ensure each department had a clear budget and roadmap for production with necessary OKRs and unintrusive KPIs in place.
• Drove Engineering, Art and Design teams in the creation of pre-production GDD, TDD and Art Bible.

• Produced the company's first title with only a $40k budget (S.O.G. Prairie Fire Arma 3 CDLC). The title was released in 2021, achieving over $6m in sales and 82% positive reviews on Steam.
• Led the production of our flagship asset, a 300km^2 virtual terrain and worked under tight deadlines with a cross-functional development team across multiple time zones.
• Led an initiative for collecting, triaging and signing off ~$1m worth of art assets from over 100 artists post-production.

• Designed and implemented a large-scale open-world terrain development pipeline in the Real Virtuality game engine.
• Creating several bespoke tools in Python & Java to assist in our CI/CD process.
• Reduced build error rate by 80% and increased build frequency by 300%.
• Designed a modular 3D Fortification system and created over 50 modular 3D Assets for this terrain.

Bad Feilnbach, Bavaria, Germany

• Designed and implemented a large-scale open-world terrain development pipeline in the Real Virtuality game engine. Creating several bespoke tools in Python & Java to assist in our CI/CD process. (Similar to that.

Bachelors, Computer Science, 4.0 Gpa First-Class Honours

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