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Warsaw, Warsaw, Pl

* Identified new strategic partnership opportunities in North America. Structured, negotiated, and closed partnerships and contracts to meet or exceed objectives. * Established and nurtured relationships with key clients at every level and horizontally within game development and publishing organizations to drive revenue growth. * Partnered with internal production and creative teams to assess opportunities, develop tailored proposals, and align client requirements with our creative and technical expertise. * Managed CRM tools throughout the sales pipeline (Zoho).

Burbank, California, Us

• Provided critical operational support on the Warner Bros account • Acted as primary point of escalation for production issues and projects at risk• Implemented client focused strategies and improved communication between all teams• Oversaw end to end project management on a macro level• Collaborated with global production teams, various product lines and quality groups• Identified risks and bottlenecks to relevant teams

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

• Identified new strategic partnership opportunities on the West Coast and Worldwide• Structured, negotiated, and closed partnerships to meet or exceed objectives• Established and nurtured relationships with key clients at every level and horizontally within game development and publishing organizations• Assisted in the development of pricing and market strategies• Managed CRM (Pipedrive), updates, refinements

Beverly Hills, Ca, Us

• Provided project management on a wide range of VR software development, website and app development, game related software/hardware, and release delivery and testing strategies for a themed FEC in China• Provided daily contact with external vendors including schedules, milestone deliveries, RFP creation and oversight• Built and developed decks to show and improve ideas for internal and external entities• Recruited and hired internal development team consisting of Technical Artists and Engineers

Took time off to be at home with my twins (school, events, homework, sports and bedtimes)

Cinisello Balsamo, Lomb., It

• 1st employee in the US startup responsible for finding rental space, hiring team and studio buildout. • Managed a team from 3-5 FT employees and numerous freelancers in different disciplines from translation, to audio, to business development. • Managed localization projects for our largest clients from start to end including both Audio and Text. • Created yearly budgets (1.4-2.0 mil) and worked on monthly closures with the finance teams. • On-site IT, HR and Ops person for our company.

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

• Lead in the coordination of all localization projects- Translation, VO and Testing.• Supervised 2 Project Managers on all ongoing projects and duties.• Coordinated worldwide recruitment efforts for all languages. Resource pool grew to about 300 translators within 2 months.• Worked directly with worldwide clients daily. Made sure all projects are kept to a high standard.• Participated in sales meetings with high profile clients in the video game industry.• Responsible for all monthly invoicing for clients and vendors. Worked closely with Finance to make sure all billing was accurate.

Los Angeles, California, Us

• Led the coordination of localization projects for the Interactive Game division.• 1st games division full-time hire. Helped integrate games into the current DVD/Subtitling work flow.• Managed up to 3 team members on daily tasks and duties.• Worked with the SDI Production group to track assets and updates throughout the production cycle to ensure the client is getting the highest quality work.• Participated in numerous sales meetings with high profile clients such as EA, Sony Online, Konami, Microsoft, and Mattel.• Responsible for all monthly invoicing for clients and vendors.

Agoura Hills, Ca, Us

• In charge of deploying all wireless products to US, Canadian and Latin America Carriers. • 1st employee of newly formed Deployment Dept.• Managed 6 team members on daily tasks and duties.• Implemented new procedures and practices such as QA management, Port tracking and Submission reports.• Daily interaction with Port Companies and Wireless Carriers on status, requests, and submissions.• Responsible for all Port Work Orders, Bids and Invoice reconciliations. • Worked with Sales/Marketing/Production on Deployment plans which included Marketing slogans and descriptions, Sales figures per Carrier and production ideas for new games/features.• Entirely responsible for BREW submissions and price plans.

Santa Monica, California, Us

• Scheduled and tracked daily progress using MS Project. Included timelines, dependencies and work flow.• Ensured deliverables and tasks were completed and delivered on time.• Managed Programmers and Artists on daily tasks. Worked with leads on any number of issues including work flow, reassigning tasks, and priorities. • Helped HR Dept in staffing of team members.• Designed and scripted gameplay areas for XFILES game, animation playback and implementation in Knockout Kings games, and overall design help of March Madness 2000. • Burned CD/DVD for milestones and internal testing.

Us

• Responsible for asset tracking from internal/external sources.• Assisted audio director in implementing sounds on certain titles using in-house tools.• In charge of burning CD’s for publisher milestones and internal testing.• Worked with off-site testing group on bug database tracking.

London, Greater London, Gb

• Part of the QA team for Final Fantasy VII (PC).

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