Jean-Eric Khalife Email & Phone Number

Culver City, CA, US

Derry / Worldwide, GB

- Scaled product ownership across six teams, driving initiative prioritization and clear direction, which led to the successful delivery of critical milestones and significantly boosted project momentum and discipline stakeholder confidence.- Established clear goals and an outcome-based roadmap for discipline pipeline readiness, prioritizing high-value.

Derry / Worldwide, GB

-Analyzed existing tooling and ecosystems, creating a prioritized plan and backlog that addressed key tooling improvements, which led to a pivot of priorities away from Art tooling and towards Design tooling to address the game creation design bottleneck that was occurring. -Aligned stakeholders on UGC tooling vision through comprehensive market analysis.

North Hollywood, California, US

- Instructor of Game Creation 3 where I help the next generation of game developers learn the ins and outs of the character pipeline in Unreal Engine. They learn to use Epic's Animation and Rigging Toolset along with core UE4 animation features like state machines, anim dynamics, retargeting, and anim montages.

San Mateo, CA, US

- Reviewed existing tooling opportunities and feature needs in end-to-end pipeline and worked with company leadership to approve a plan, backlog, and roadmap for addressing key improvements for 2020, of which, over 90% were completed on schedule. - Rewrote full Maya export pipeline including meshes, animations, and rig exporters with modern UIs, a scalable.

- Founded RoboWorld Entertainment with a focus on bringing developers and players together to build great games they love. - Pitched to investors and publishers and secured accelerator funding to build a prototype of Space Racing Legends, a GaaS team-based competitive racing game. - Developed and released VizRef, a top 10 selling iPad reference board app.

Los Angeles, CA, US

RiotEditor/Riot Game Data Server: “The Unreal for League of Legends” (June 2015 - June 2018):-Owned and drove the creation of a front-end and back-end platform that allowed users to efficiently create, store, and manage content in a continuous development environment on League of Legends-Developed a strategy to transition League of Legends while live.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Update to Summoner's Rift:-Improved Maps development pipeline in order to streamline artist workflows including creating an easy-to-use exporter and integrating automatic source control updates-Developed and fully owned an atlasing tool which optimized texel density while maintaining visual quality allowing the map to effectively run on the minimum PC.

San Mateo, California, US

God of War: Ascension:-Developed Maya tools including rewriting the Recent Files Menu, utilizing batch functionality to update thousands of files at once, and creating Wonder Tech shaders used during God of War illusion scenes-Optimized performance and memory costs to hit fps requirements and run effectively on the PS3Polished In-Game Cinematics by.

Irvine, CA, US

-Prototyped new game ideas to pitch to publishers resulting in successful funding -Functioned as a generalist game developer providing what was needed to create high-quality games including memory and performance management, artist tool development, and creating art ranging from UI to dynamic environment art-Shipped 3 games including Dungeon Siege 3.

Irvine, CA, US

Flash UI Artist, 3D Environment Artist

Orange, CA, US

• Developed and designed original award-winning publications for Chapman University, including logos, calendars, posters, collateral, promotional items and t-shirts.
• Consulted with clients regarding different graphic needs, handling all aspects of a job including filing and billing, gaining valuable experience about the printing and creative process.