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Port Angeles, Wa, Us

Redmond, Wa, Us

Release Manager for all Halo products. Supported the Halo Infinite Launch. Working on all upcoming content updates. Shipped Halo: The Master Chief Collection Seasons 5, 6, 7, 8, the Halo 20th Anniversary content update and more. Regularly publish to Xbox Live, Windows Store and Steam. Daily workflow in Azure Dev Ops, Playfab, Steamworks, Partner Center, and more.

Kirkland, Washington, Us

Originally hired to work on in-person events, the role transitioned to digital event work during Covid-19 closures. I helped produce live-streaming demos featuring Microsoft Surface hardware. Light video production work for speaker sessions, admin support for a 365 Tenant and deploying Windows builds to demo hardware for marketing, events and remote employees.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Produced signature events for the City of Redmond WA, including So Bazaar, Redmond Lights and Derby Days. These festivals attract tens of thousands of attendees each year. My team owned the budget, planning and execution of every aspect of these shows, including vendor booths, concerts, food, fireworks, carnival rides, races, art exhibits and so much more. The events I build bring communities together.

New Berlin, Wi, Us

Produced booths and experiences at international trade shows and industry events for the Microsoft HoloLens Mixed Reality at Work team. Managed the schedule, budget, booth design, shipping, staffing, construction and show operations. Create event reports, post mortems and best practice documentation. Represented Microsoft and the latest Dynamics 365 applications for the HoloLens 2 featuring both augmented and virtual reality. Events included Mobile World Congress, Hannover Messe, Gartner and many more.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Program Manager of the Experis GTE Core Team at Microsoft. Helped Experis to kick off a new managed service for Microsoft. Our team of nearly 40 STE, SDE and SDET sits onsite at Microsoft working on a variety of different Xbox, Mobile and Windows projects including Gears of War, Halo, Forza, Minecraft, HoloLens, Quantum Break and several other software titles. Responsibilities included overall management of this team, and delivering weekly status to the MS and Experis leadership groups. Handed off a sustainable business model to the Core Team.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Release Manager for Destiny; the newest game from Bugnie.Released builds of Destiny for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One and the Xbox 360. Created daily builds of the game on our development hardware, and pushed those builds both to internal teams on development hardware and retail consoles. I also built and released milestone builds to our publisher (Activision), as well as the platform certification teams at Sony and Microsoft. Edited and published content for Bungie.net. Attended events including DevCon and XFest on behalf of Bungie and presented the game at the Gamestop Managers Conference in Las Vegas.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Planned and executed public and private Xbox 360 events and product demostrations on behalf of several different Microsoft product teams.Organized and staffed events including E3, CES, PAX, the Microsoft Company Meeting and many more. Created content for press tours and regularly gave presentations to media and partners.Produced segments for live and broadcast television shows including Good Morning America, The Today Show, Fox and Friends, Nickelodeon's "Victorious" and several different 30 and 60 second television commercials.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Xbox Game Quality Program Manager. Worked in several different disciplines during my time with this team. Functional Test Manager: Managed a team of full time Microsoft employees. Supervised vendors and contigent staff. Coordinated scheduling and release of titles, owned budgeting and metrics reporting for the team. Oversaw all pass/fail calls and coordinated escalation issues. Worked with our London team to regularly review and revise the Functional test cases. Compliance Manager: Managed a team of full time employes, supervised contractors and vendors. Worked closely with our international team members in London to ensure our practices and standards stayed consistent worldwide. Worked with the team to constantly review and update our test cases and documentation on the Technical Certification Requirements.Hardware Certification Program Manager: Supervised teams of up to 250 vendors and contingent staff at a time working on the certification of nearly every original Xbox console revision released to market. Collaborated across multiple teams and disciplines to build a streamlined release process from the ground up and sustained it through end of product life.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Project Manager for the Windows Demo Team. Created custom content for two separate consumer Windows releases, including several Bill Gates launch demos. Produced two segments of the Times Square launch of Windows XP. Worked on the Microsoft Home for CES, and dozens of major trade shows.Delivered product demonstrations directly to internal groups, the public, and press. Designed content for a 25 city mall-tour for Windows, and personally oversaw show operations at ten stops on the tour.Presented a video messaging demo during the Microsoft company meeting at Safeco field.

Double Major: Media & Communications And Psychology

Associate Of Arts And Sciences (A.A.S.), Psychology