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- AAA Project Management: Animation Coordinator for The Last of Us Online and Art Outsourcing Project Manager and Animation Coordinator on Concord.- Working collaboratively with an external studio, co-dev studio, internal artists, globally outsourced artists, internal animators and production folks across multiple disciplines to develop replicable, easy-to-understand, measurable pipelines that establish accountability and collaboration across studios.- Developing timelines, practices, and documentation to inform project-wide expectations about deliverables and their respective deadlines.- Consulting artists, animators, supervisors, and creative leads to create practices that are being implemented across studio-wide projects.- Strengthening relationships with external development studios to create a foundation of trust-based and open communication, regular updates, and common intention that motivates stakeholders to work in a shared, productive direction with defined goals.

Managed projects through creative conception and development, pre-production and risk management, organized and worked alongside teams through production and post-production, and lead teams through publish.Chaired daily stand-up meetings, coordination meetings, and post-mortem presentations while tracking and reporting through our production hierarchy on assigned projects. This included check-ins with individuals among my teams and my own management to track morale and employee sentiment.Producer on flagship news shows and Developing Producer/Lead Producer on "Fix - Entertainment", a new iteration of IGN's daily gaming-focused news show. This new series concentrated on Movies, TV, and Streaming Services. Utilized problem-solving skills to remove roadblocks, streamline processes, and ensure efficient delivery of a high-quality show.Maintained & developed relationships with external partners and stakeholders like Disney, Wizards of the Coast, Ubisoft, and more across projects to develop content, manage deliverables, coordinate talent, acquire approvals, resulting in remarkable products met with incredible reception.Worked collaboratively with a team to research, re-work, and optimize the performance and production of our flagship series, Daily Fix, resulting in a 200% increase in average views over six months. This raised average views per episode from 70,000 to 180,000, frequently reaching over a million.Developed a critical eye for game mechanics, user experience, storytelling, world-building, and more. I then used those skills to lend an editorial opinion via reviews, op-eds, and more on many game titles from tabletop to AAA.Executed IGN's first coverage of Gen Con where I scheduled appointments, booked flights, organized panels, wrote articles, coordinated follow-up content, grew relationships with publishers, and delivered an extensive post mortem to the IGN team about the event coverage's incredible success.

Producing custom videos around television, film, and video game properties including Walking Dead, The Last of Us, Star Wars, and many more, as well as producing IGN's flagship news program, The Daily Fix.

Host of Cardboard Conquest, a board game show featuring the talent of IGN. This show is my vision from top to bottom, doing the writing, pre-production, hosting, editing, and publication.

Producing, Scripting, Shooting, Editing, and Delivery for IGN's Daily Fix for Disney XD.

Designed the well-received mode/scenario "Let's Play a Game" for the board game expansion "Betrayal at House on the Hill: Widow's Walk." This expansion won the Dragon Award in 2017 for Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Board Game.

Writer, Executive Producer, Host, Video Editor, Sound Engineer, Composer, Marketing, Social Media, etc.