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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Managed the schedule and development for UI team and feature team responsible for creating the environments in Rumbleverse. Handled Localization and Legal efforts, and established live service schedules. Since February 2023, collaborating with Project Leadership and clients to define and maintain roadmaps and milestones, implementing tailored agile methodologies, and directing teams to achieve goals. Refining processes for improved performance, managing project scope and team capacity.

Stockholm, Sweden

During the first two years of employment managed the development and release process for Star Wars Battlefront II liaising with Leadership and Production teams to define and adapt the product roadmap. Worked closely with the Development teams within the scrum framework to communicate and translate the product vision into actionable items. Ensured that the vision was executed upon according to schedule whilst continuously optimizing development processes. From March 2020 onwards, worked on Battlefield 2042 within the same capacity.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Managed the development process of educational games and websites from initial concept through to release, creating and maintaining the overall production schedule and budget. Used the agile software methodology scrum to coordinate the efforts of the development team, ensuring project scope and progress remained on track while meeting client expectations, making adjustments to the production plan as necessary. Worked closely with the QA Team to ensure that milestone builds were released to the highest possible level of quality.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Worked on a survival horror video game project with Side managing the translation and recording of all text assets into 9 languages liaising with 20 freelance translators/reviewers as well as 5 localization vendors and 5 external recording studios. Set up the translation and review process at the beginning of the project as well as sourcing freelancers and vendors to complete the teams in order to get the project done in time. Liaised closely with the developer in getting all necessary assets for translation and recording as planned and expected.

London, United Kingdom

Employed as part of the Localization Services team managed all aspects of the localization process for various Sony Computer Entertainment products in up to 18 languages across multiple platforms. Liaised with European and US Production teams, internal/external development studios and First Party QA department to ensure quality localized assets were delivered and implemented on time to meet release dates.

London, United Kingdom

Side is a multi-award winning partner for leading games publishers and developers. Worked with a multitude of video game clients to offer quality translation and voice over production services. Liaised with voice over agencies, voice actors, directors and in-house sound engineers to carry out casting and voice over production services to meet the clients’ project requirements and deliver quality recorded dialogue.

London, United Kingdom

Employed as a member of the Disney Interactive Group, managed all aspects of the video game localization process. Liaised with US, European and Japanese Production departments, internal/external development studios, Licensees and Localization QA department to ensure quality localized assets were delivered and implemented on time to meet release dates.

London, United Kingdom

Employed as a member of the Development Department at the London offices of Rockstar. Managed all localization aspects of Take 2 Interactive titles. Focused on Rockstar developed titles, involved at the early stages of development from initial concepts and design, through evaluation of early product builds and finally in the full implementation of all localized text, audio and printed materials. Acted as Assistant to the European Producer on assigned products, liaising with internal developers and the QA Department to ensure the development of a title was on track through to code submissions to the platform holders.

Windsor, United Kingdom

Employed as a member of the Operations Department, coordinated the localization of ingame text, audio and printed materials for video games. Scheduled translations and audio recordings through to raising purchase orders and invoice reconciliation. Responsible for artwork submissions to Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft.

London, United Kingdom

Employed as a Localization QA Technician in October 2000, ensured that the quality of translations in video games and their accompanying printed materials were to the highest standard. Promoted to Localization Lead QA Technician in Spring 2002, supervised and coordinated the localization test team.