Max Krembs Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

• Served as Lead Producer for a 42-person project in incubation
• Successfully delivered several prototypes and milestones for an unannounced project, including a vertical slice.
• Developed Agile-based production methodologies to serve as standards for future development.
• Maintained close collaboration with project leadership and studio management to align staffing, budget, and delivery roadmap.
• Drove healthy team culture with a fully virtual team with communication standards and regular team-wide rituals.
• Managed a team of three producers and contributed to a studio-wide skills program for production staff.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Owned planning and work tracking for content, narrative, level design/environment art, product management, and UI/UX on an unannounced project.
• Established and refined preliminary pipelines for the above disciplines in prototyping and early preproduction.
• Took point on developing and documenting production methodologies to apply across the project, and worked with peer producers to troubleshoot and iterate.
• Owned closing processes for several major milestones and assisted in preparing stakeholder presentation materials.
• Established processes and rituals to maintain team culture as the team began operating remotely.

Los Gatos, California

• Producer for several technical teams building and maintaining custom technology powering Cryptic’s live games including graphics, infrastructure, and tools.
• Tailored and facilitated production practices for each team based on Agile principles.
• Maintained long term roadmaps for technical feature releases and coordinated priorities among all internal game projects.

Los Gatos, CA

As a graduate student, I study Production--how to effectively manage teams and make sure that games ship on time. Prior to focusing on production, I also took classes as a Level Designer and gained proficiency in Unity, Unreal 4, and Skyrim's Creation Engine.

Stage Left Studios was an independent film company of sorts that I began with several friends as a hobby project. We create high quality machinima projects with large virtual teams, with an emphasis on playing to our theatrical origins.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

I oversaw all internal and external events held at the Department of Drama, while also supporting all audio engineering needs for educational theatre productions the Department mounted. My work also involved staffing, budgeting, and invoicing for each event and all audio shop maintenance.

I worked as the lead audio technician executing sound designs for each production Olney mounted. I also engineered the stock audio systems for all three performance spaces and managed a functional shop that repaired and maintained all audio and video equipment used by the theatre.

Managed the audio equipment used by the Department of Drama, and worked with fellow students to build audio systems for each stage production based on that production's sound design.

Master Of Interactive Technology, Production, Level Design

As a graduate student, I study Production--how to effectively manage teams and make sure that games ship on time. Prior to focusing on.

Bachelor'S Degree, Drama/Theatre Arts And Stagecraft

Activities and Societies: Founder, Sigma Omicron Rho - Queer and Allied Gender Inclusive FraternityThe majority of my undergraduate.