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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 unify, develop, document and sustainably operate all in-house game tools.o Worked with over 600 internal customers and cross-functional stakeholders to develop and improve a portfolio of 7 tools (and growing).o Saved over $5m/yr in day-to-day operational expenses (and growing).▪ 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 with regulators in more than 244 different countries.o Analyzed risk and business value using qual/quant data to make data-informed decisions with a strong ROI under strict time pressure. Saved over $20k in Certification costs.

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 ~$500k/yr in overheads.▪ 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 created for Savage Game Design) (No metrics for improvements as was done during pre-production.)

Bachelors, Computer Science, 4.0 Gpa First-Class Honours

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