Jennifer Williamson Email & Phone Number

Rhode Island, United States

Organization and Agile consulting for a new indie start-up creating a Unity-based MMO.

Greater Atlanta Area

• Authored the “A Chorus of Dragons” series (5 books) and two standalone novels.• Led all stages of novel development, from concept to publishing, collaborating with editors, production, and marketing to successfully deliver on a 10-month release cycle.

Maryland

• Managed a remote team of 22 artists, designers, and programmers while training them on the use of Agile, Kanban, and Lean methodologies.• Directed Unity video game production using Agile: backlog creation, refinement, and iteration.• Created reports, story bibles, and marketing materials for investors.

Atlanta, Georgia

Led mixed development teams (programming, design, math, 2D & 3D art, animation, and sound) for internal slot machine games, from concept to shipment of final game cabinet.• Designed a combination Agile/Waterfall process using Confluence and VersionOne.• Spearheaded internal education and training initiatives to increase creativity, efficiency, and team cohesion. • Patented two slot machine features; spearheaded the development of River Dragons, one of AGS’s top-performing slot machine games in 2016.

• Oversaw weekly content updates for Island Paradise, a Facebook game with 15 million users, directing the creation of new art assets and sales events based on PO feedback.• Streamlined processes with automation, optimizing task scheduling and team coordination through JIRA.• Managed a team of 9 artists, collaborating with QA and programming teams using Scrum.

Promoted from QA Tester (QA lead on LOTR: Conquest) to Playtest Coordinator, responsible for recruiting, screening and creating usability playtests to fine tune and improve game play for the Saboteur and Mercenaries games in development. Used Agile and Lean principles in conjunction with development teams to create the best solutions to game play challenges.

Performed QA testing for Lord of the Rings: Conquest, including tracked daily testing and free-play ad-hoc testing. Acted as pod leader for the QA team for down-loadable content development.

Pursued freelance opportunities, primarily for Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab as well as other companies, creating T-shirt art, logo designs, jewelry, collectible illustrations for trading cards and perfume bottles.

Responsible for the advertising, collateral and promotional marketing for one of Southern California’s oldest racetracks. Designed print advertising for newspapers & magazines around the country. Responsible for original illustrations, logo designs and photo shoots for T-shirts, hats and other promotional merchandise given away at the park to increase attendance. Developed signage, menus and packaging for park’s restaurants. Created corporate presentation packages for major sponsors such as BMW, Pepsi and Citibank. Handled all IT troubleshooting for department computer equipment.

Organized and designed the in-house advertising/promotions agency for national trade magazine company. Created custom illustrations, manual and digital, to meet client needs. Suggested promotional ideas and critiqued current marketing projects. Coordinated vendors for price, timeliness, and accuracy. Employee of the Year, 1996 (awarded for running the art department in the absence of the Marketing Director, who was on maternity leave for six months.)

Created successful Special Section covers and promotional pieces with both manual and computer separations. Tutored fellow employees in troubleshooting and use of ‘basic’ art programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark). Composed a wide array of speculative presentations for diverse accounts. Winner of the California Newspaper Association’s Award for Best Special Section for 1994 Earth Day cover design.

Art Director for an innovative free daily paper. Designed the total “look” of the paper. Reorganized the computer department for greater efficiency and management effectiveness. Worked in close concert with account executives to design the best possible approaches for gaining new markets.

Created custom art for a mail-order stamp company.

Taught weekly classes in PageMaker and instructed customers on use of Macintosh equipment and problem-solving techniques.

Graphic Design

Education record

Currently pursuing my Masters of Business Administration.