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Berlin, Germany

Leading the Production department on The Cycle: Frontier;- Line Management of Project Leads and helping cultivate a culture of candid constructive feedback.- Utilising KPIs to track project quality, delivery, and predictability and supporting leadership to take steps to improve these.- Balancing project resource planning with long term needs of the studio.- Guiding the Product Team after the previous Executive Producer left the project.- Training, mentoring and guiding the allocation of the production team, to most efficiently support the timely delivery of project goals.- Developing project processes to improve quality of our released features.- Engaging with our community to build trust and develop a collaborative environment to help improve our updates.

Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Senior Producer leading the Production Department and managing the milestones of development for the entire project, which included;- Defining Project Milestones and ensuring that these points directly reflect a successful trajectory to market.- Leading and mentoring the Production Department with clear defined growth plans to support their development and ownership of delivering parts of the project.- Guiding the Director team on departmental budget management- Ensuring the team focuses on delivering features that serve the project pillars and maintaining the product vision.- Assisting with supporting discipline directors to build hiring roadmaps and finding the right candidates to support future development needs.- Engaging developers and producers to build a high level project schedule, to inform scoping decisions- Creating project pipelines with discipline leads and producers, to guarantee production readiness and prove project viability

Royal Leamington Spa

In my role as Design Producer on the Fable project I held the following responsibilities;- Managing the schedule for the entire design team and supporting the Chief Designer with prioritization of design features.- Managing the design team’s hiring plan, based on the project backlog and the requirements on the team per fiscal year.- Setting expectations with the company management about the realistic delivery timeline of features and providing options adjusting deadlines to meet expectations.- Coaching the individuals in the teams with the Scrum values, to bring out the greatest potential in the team- Ensuring the team focuses on delivering features that serve the project pillars and maintaining the product vision

Wilmslow

In my most recent role as a Producer, I've been driving one of two Major Landing Zone teams, which is a cross-disciplinary content team, to deliver engaging and fun environments for our players to experience in our quarterly public releases.In addition to supporting our primary major landing zone team, I have supported three of our feature teams, that have delivered gameplay loops and to our community, some examples of these would include; Planetary Mining, Asteroid Space Mining and Ship Power Management.

Wilmslow

As an Associate Producer, I supported our Global Persistent Universe (PU) Design department, which included the Live Design, Systems Design, PU Level Design and Landing Zone Design teams scattered across Cloud Imperium Games' US, Germany and United Kingdom offices.Previously at CIG, I have lead our UI and Graphics teams, on top of supporting our regular Live Releases, S42 and being part of the production team supporting our presentations at GamesCom and CitizenCon (A Star Citizen convention for our backers)

Prague, The Capital, Czech Republic

Mnisek Pod Brdy, Czech Republic

- One of the two founders of DayZ that joined Bohemia- Managed risks and establish risk mitigation including crisis management.- Assisting establishing achievable goals of milestones within game development timeline.- Contributing to the core vision and theme of DayZ- Ensuring constant uptime in our core systems- Tracking and managing budget for art assets- Organising our attendance at trade shows, including public relations, meeting panel deadlines and meeting with companies partner's on behalf of the project.- Managing the localisation of the title into 10 different languages and establishing the pipeline for this.- Creating our support system pipelines and establishing the support team to respond to queries from our players and customers- Keeping notes of meetings and key decisions within the project- Managing the projects move over the Atlassian agile systems (Confluence and Jira) and supporting the internal teams with the different pipelines. As well as creating templates for our team to use.- Being one of the public faces of the game at multiple trade shows, industry panels and in media interviews.- Ensuring our game meets the required internal standards and external legislation so that it's able to be distributed legally via online distribution methods (Steam)- Forging better relations with our companies partners to ensure greater success before, during and after release of the development of the title (Steam, Multiplay, AMD, Nvidia+)- Community engagement - Being there for the players, listening, responding and being approachable for their suggestions, complaints and desires.- Team building, solving personal issues within the team to strive to a better outcome.- Supervising our forum software and ensuring the forum team feel supporting by the core development team- Word man, weaving our brand's messages into a coherent output to the community.

Worldwide

Helping with the organisation and management of the popular DayZ Mod.

Education record

Politics and International Relations

Education record