Jacob Barrows Email & Phone Number

Maple Ridge, BC, CA

Vancouver, Canada Area

Responsibilities:Defining and setting project management standards company wideOverseeing multiple projects / programs in parallelOptimizing resources across projects / programs and operations workCreating and managing project plansBuilding, managing and motivating project teamsMonitoring and controlling progress of projects / programsEnsuring the delivery.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Responsibilities:- Program Management of up to 5 parallel projects- Overseeing a team of 60+- Managing 5 junior/intermediate project managers- Delivering all FX projects on time, on budget and meeting quality standards of clients- Auditing project progress and production staff performance- Creating initial schedule and overseeing the maintenance of them.

Toronto, Canada Area

Assassin's Creed Unity:- Managed and delivered the development of the City, Missions and Quests teams in Toronto for ACU.- Coordinated with multiple Ubisoft studios on dependencies, risks and process.- Created new processes for my teams and the greater Toronto team to enhance visibility of risks, pipelines, timelines and increase information sharing..

- Delivered multiple games managing cross-functional teams of 20+ in both single project and multi-project environments.- Created new more efficient process together with the team around workflows, communication, distributed development partners, etc.- Created tools to aid in decision making in a multi-project environment with competing resources.- Reduced.

- Managed testing teams for multi-platform AAA titles- Managed testing timeline, gate criteria and budget- Reported progress to development teams and management- Coordinated and helped drive the creation of a world wide on-line test plan across EA studios- Put together Nintendo compliance test scripts and plans for the studioWorking on titles such.