Kj Smith Email & Phone Number

Renton, Washington, United States

• Expertly lead content production for Magic: The Gathering web marketing campaigns, resulting in successful product releases and public-facing content.• Coordinate with diverse partners and stakeholders to create project schedules and drive project success.• Work closely with game development teams to ensure needs are met, and intake client requests using project management tools• Track and triage client requests, identify production risks, and use creative problem-solving to meet project schedules and maintain realistic product plans.• Utilize established procedures, pipelines, and workflows to develop marketing strategies and consistent production management of campaigns.• Execute and adapt publishing workflows to accommodate unique specs for every release.• Successfully led the migration of the Wizards web presence from Drupal to Contentful CMS, resulting in improved overall site Organic SEO, Page Ranking, and product page engagement.

Renton, Washington, United States

• Communicate effectively with partners on Wizards marketing and publishing practices, and coordinate across teams to deliver a finished product • Contribute to the development and refinement of the production process, focusing on sustainable methodologies• Create documentation and reporting for campaign performance using MS Office suite, and project management tools ( Asana, JIRA )• Enhance sales funnel and cross team collaboration with the integration of new tools to our tech stack resulting in our websites first directly attributed sales• Utilize clear verbal and written communication skills and collaboration between multidisciplinary teams to ensure scheduling aligned between multiple groups• Wire-frame and rapid prototype utilizing Adobe Suite ( XD, Photoshop) to provide initial specs for internal and external partners providing additional programming support

Renton, Washington, United States

Renton, Wa

• Coordinate web production support to an additional variety of brands and games • Utilized available project management tools (JIRA, Confluence) to schedule, track, and manage tasks and milestones• Engage in prioritization of incoming requests, assessing risk and complexity• Deploy web campaign content- new pages, augmenting existing content - using Drupal CMS• Performed content review, and QA on new marketing content as part of our publishing workflow• Multi-task with ongoing product campaigns and needs of upcoming releases

Renton, Wa

Magic: Duels @ Wizards of the Coast• Established actionable test process to drive and direct meaningful results with a focus on risk mitigation in games production.• QA on localization content for game development purposes.• Partner across teams to drive the development, release, and maintenance of the game.• Approached test passes using analytical skills to ensure useful metrics.• Facilitate successful compliance of studio policies to ensure product can enter market on time.• Worked with various disciplines in game production to ensure implementation of desired content within game.• Managed triage process of submitted issues with SPIRA test management tool.• Provided leadership to external test team to motivate adoption of new and established procedures.• Updated internal build verification test process to streamline internal build acceptance process.• Drove certification testing to ensure compliance across multiple game platforms.• Collected and organized analytics and metrics to report on various aspects of development from a QA perspective.• Maintain hardware mobile, console, PC and digital assets for internal Development and Test.

Redmond, Wa

Forza Motorsport 6 @ MICROSOFT• Mentoring a team of people with multiple perspectives and talents.• QA Team validation by reporting through TFS system.• Participated in daily scrum meetings.• Attend and participate in weekly agile planning meetings with the project team.• Acted as one of the main communication contacts between client and vendors.• As a vendor representative acted as a team diplomat in charge of resolving conflicts.• Perform test passes based on game development milestone requirements.

Redmond, Wa

SUNSET OVERDRIVE @ MICROSOFT• Mentor multiplayer game test team on best practices to ensure overall content coverage.• Utilize best judgment when situations where unclear and cooperate with leadership in creating or updating procedures.• Lead session based test runs and compiled documentation for results of the process.

Bellevue,Wa

XBOX One Hardware @MICROSOFT• Parse relevant information of a project to effectively identify problems.• Utilizing critical thinking skills to create solutions.• Execute test cases and report any inconsistent activity.• Running simple automation scripts.• Logging failures and writing defect reports.

Greater Seattle Area

• Grow and develop a diverse team to drive store to success.• Align with Store/District Manager to prioritize effective areas of growth.• Execute audits on processes to ensure compliance with company standards.• Manage payroll and scheduling for entire store.