- Leading the largest and most profitable team in the company.- Handling daily team lead activities including, but not limited to - Leading Game development team - Release Planning and Resource Balancing - Vision & Roadmap - Cross team communication - Crisis Management in Live Game - Team continuous Improvement- In addtion to the daily work of Game Team Development I also handle all of the continuous people management areas for the team, including but not limited to: - Resource & Hiring - Team Budget - Team Performance / Development discussions and plans - Team Motivation - Team Career Development- Very active in the development overall of the company.- Hard work and dedication have paid off to grow the current game team into an incredibly strong and versatile team.

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►Co-founded a small mobile applications start-up company, creating the company vision and brand strategy, with full accountability for its fulfilment of defined targets►Established the core foundations whilst running all operational and commercial aspects of the business►Developing the concept and managing the design, release and promotion of product offerings to market►Managing product development, enhancements and maintenance releases for continued market share►Facilitating cost effective solutions to every business challenge to ensure customer satisfaction►Overseeing the development and management of a backend technical expert and a graphic design intern►Collating business insight and consumer data to monitor performance and optimise revenues►Driving market and company growth utilising new technology, processes, products, contractors & staffKey Achievements✔Successfully created, sourced and secured funding for the development of Melod.io, the company’s first mobile music message application for iOS and Android products using social media as a launch platform✔Facilitated advertising and PR for the Melod.io pre-release in the USA via Venturebeat and Mobilebeat✔Developed and launched a second application (Melodigram) from business case to market delivery; overseeing all PR, sales & marketing activities including a successful launch at the Polar Bear Pitch✔Secured extensive product coverage with major tech blogs such as Techcrunch, tech.eu and MSN

►Overall performance management and coaching of a team of 70+ care project managers ►Developed and implemented reporting, tools and methods for effective monitoring and measurement Key Achievements: ✔ Successfully created and deployed an End to End Care Preparation approach for Nokia Solutions; which increased average Care Ready at sales start from 35% to 98% ✔ Promoted a more diverse and effective virtual network to accomplish cross functional goals

►Provided strategic leadership to the development of operations focusing on efficiency and synergy; liaising and aligning with all internal functions for Care Preparation Key Achievements: ✔ Planned, developed and deployed the Care Process Desktop as a single point for all Care processes to be easily accessed with Adobe Flash ✔ Built and executed a Care Readiness Management System for Global CPMs to communicate directly with Sales Units Care and Local Sales Units Care; resulting in increased revenues and profit

Managed the interface between own organisation and its customers, Nokia Business units regarding roadmaps, requirements, and releases. Managed the content of Product Creation Process Library. This role consists of directly supporting process owners, and giving access rights. Directly involved with many different process projects covering; Requirements management, Error/defect Management, Feature management, Release management, change management, roadmapping, portfolio management.

Process Management for Nokia error management. Direct support for Error Management System, and error reporting solution. Planning the development for the replacement for Error Management System. Daily support/firefighting in Process & concept related issues. Creating proposals for the future error management process.

Managed the setup for error management in a product program.

This job fell into 3 categories: Competitor Intelligence & Future Technologies, Customer Interface, and Roadmapping• Competitor Intelligence & Future Technologies: Studied all relevant existing and new technologies related to PCs/PDAs/Mobile Phones/Synchronisation/Calendar/Music, etc. Istudied synchronisation technologies and wrote the original specification for Nokia defining the initial needs to fulfil for Nokia PC Sync application• Customer Interface: Managed the interface between PC Connectivity group and its customers, product programs regarding roadmaps, requirements, and releases.• Roadmapping: Technology & Feature roadmapping for SyncML, Bluetooth and PC Suite.

Field Test Manager for the Nokia Datasuite and PC Cardphone projects. I planned all Field Test activities for these projects, trained project personnel in Field Testing, trained outside Field Test personnel in the products, gave support to both Field Test and product areas for all project personnel. I created the field testing handbook for our products. I also created a new reporting spreadsheet for Field Test reports of which a version is still in use today. I rewrote the Field Test specification specifically for use with Data testing. I took care of Operator contact. Managed Beta testing for outside users.

Working in field testing testing from products 2110, 2010, and Nokia 232 through to 3110 and 8110 products. Extensive traveling during this period. Experience with finding errors with the products. Error reporting. Taking and analyzing traces using various Nokia tracing SW. Direct technical support to the operators in the relevant country. Friendly user testing management & support.

As a test operator, with each of the series of phones I would perform a matrix of tests which would include drop testing, humidity testing, Heat testing, Salt mist testing, vibration testing, tumble testing, and specific parts testing like keymat endurance, antenna bending, etc. After each round of testing an update to a report was completed and submitted to the project.