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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.

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.

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.

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.