Ivan Velez Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston, MA, US

• Scopes and descopes features with leadership and stakeholders to help define target releases for gathering external playtest data.
• Aligns staffing needs with external partners as we identify high-priority areas needing further load balancing during planning.
• Drives task prioritization with internal and external team for the following production domains: programming (gameplay, platform, performance & rendering), modeling (character, environment & weapon), VFX (gameplay).
• Collaboratively builds strong relationships with external production stakeholders to effectively delegate regular tasking across 9 separate vendors (and in turn 100+ active external staff) concurrently.
• Unblocks handoffs of dependencies and drives troubleshooting bottlenecks both into and out of owned areas of the production pipeline.

Chicago, IL, US

• Drove project roadmap updates by coordinating priorities from development leads and project stakeholders while auditing sprint deliveries and project data (planned vs. actual).
• Reported project status and documented project plans with external clients and internal stakeholders.
• Collaborated with external parties in production, development, dev ops, and IT to escalate and remove project impediments.
• Defined day-to-day prioritization with leads and coordinated tasking of cross-discipline teams as large as 32 members.
• Enforced scrum processes with teams and drove planning, retrospectives, and recurring status update meetings.
• Mentored other producers in project management, conflict resolution, console development, standardized procedures, and best practices with using tools such as JIRA, Excel, and Perforce.

Altamonte Springs, Florida, US

• Managed development of over 20 interactive advertisements in 6-8 week development cycles, from pre-production to post-launch support.
• Negotiated with producers to optimally prioritize creative department resources across 7-12 campaigns concurrently.
• Collaborated with operations, dev ops, and client services to define and get approval on application requirements.
• Coordinated and/or directly drove maintenance support for live campaigns.Managed creative production of the following company firsts:
• 3D face-tracking AR creative (Lunchables – Keep the Smiles Coming | https://vimeo.com/60492778).
• WebApp creative where users control via their mobile device (Monterey Bay Aquarium | https://vimeo.com/60492777).

Redwood City, CA, US

• Edited reviewer notes from creative director into blog-ready content for the user-facing EA Sports MMA website.
• Developed new design document template with feedback from creative director, development director, and multiple designers.
• Documented meeting minutes for the Career team.

City Of Industry, California, US

• Prioritized immediate tasks such as impending print promotions while budgeting time towards epic-related work such as web store migration.
• Redesigned product pages on the wholesale site to be data driven and transferred pricing ownership/maintenance to the sales department.
• Coordinated with IT partners to unblock impediments with webhosting, PHP backend, and security.

• Updated online retail catalog design and maintained product updates.
• Implemented SEO best practices to raise search results for nearly all products to top 5 rankings when searching common product terms.

Orlando, FL, US

• Wrote weekly video game column Bleeps and Bloops.

Orlando, FL, US

• Collaborated with undergrad and graduate-student writers in 30-60 minute one-on-one sessions to enhance focus, organization and clarity.

M.S. Interactive Entertainment, Video Game Production

B.A. Digital Media, Internet And Interactive Systems