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Burbank, California, Us

-Produced an original IP game for console and PC (Nintendo Switch, Steam), managing the product's development team and coordinating marketing efforts.-Work alongside Studio Leadership to create processes and policies for managing our team members and infrastructure both in the US and Philippines.-Produced mobile game prototypes and managed communication between the development team and publisher. Managed rapid prototyping cycles and validated assumptions through customer insight sessions.-Work closely with Game Directors and Leads to plan project Roadmaps, establish asset pipelines and mitigate issues.-Resource and budget planning for publisher proposals, clients and internal projects.-Facilitated daily standups, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives. Tracked team velocity and improvements.-Responsible for identifying obstacles, bottlenecks, risks, listening to concerns, and solving critical issues.-Closely worked together with the Studio's QA Lead to establish workflow strategies for testing our multiplayer game during the COVID-19 pandemic and making sure we kept our teams safe.

Bogotá, Co

-Leading a team of engineers and data experts in producing innovative products to help economically vulnerable users.-Support and work closely with C-level Leadership to plan organization-wide strategies.-Facilitate strategies for product development and releases.-Design strategies with product owners to improve their software products (UX, UI, scalability, reliability).-Data modeling, analysis, queries, web services, reports, create dashboards, and make actionable recommendations.-Evangelizing data analysis results to key stakeholders to positively impact product outcomes.-Evaluate and recommend technology outsourcers.

Cuauhtémoc, Federal District, Mx

-Led 30 people in tech and creative teams using agile development processes.-Completed more than 20 small to large scale games and software applications.-Managed backend developers, designed and maintained backend systems, databases, infrastructure, version control, and documentation for internal projects and clients.-Created tools, queries and dashboards for data analysis, tracking key performance indicators, and generated status reports with insights that enabled data-driven decisions.-Designed internal tools and solutions for online/offline game networking and user data syncing.-Guided technology teams to overcome challenges and solve problems in complex projects. Responsible for identifying obstacles, bottlenecks, risks, listen to concerns, effort health, seek solutions and guide team members.-Established workflows and problem solving activities between multiple teams and products. Applied my software engineering expertise and ability to bridge the gap between highly technical teams, creatives, and stakeholders.-Managed high risk, high budget projects with live audiences for international foundations, banks, companies from various industries, and game development studios with measurable results and great outcomes for our clients.-Participated in the UX, architecture and software designs for mobile, web platforms, consoles and desktop products.-Created a streamlined version of design sprints and data metric workshops to establish goals, project plans, expectations, scope, analyze requirements and manage project risks quickly and efficiently.

Cuauhtémoc, Federal District, Mx

-Games and apps Production Lead, supervised producers, collaborated with engineering and creative area leads, as well as with external partners.-Managed schedules, roadmaps and the production project plans.-Established processes using an agile methodology approach, and implemented project management tools.-Managed daily scrum meetings, scheduled tasks, tracked milestone progress and pushed for delivery excellence. Oversaw weekly scrums with clients, publishers and external collaborators.

-Led a team of 15 people.-Produced live service games for TELUS and Coca-Cola NWEN.-Established development processes and documentation.-Collaborated with area leads in engineering and art departments.

Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mx

-Taught various courses to Software Engineering and Art students, including Software Development, Game Programming, Game Design, Virtual Environments and Game Production.

Mexico City, Mexico, Mx

-Worked on Latin America's first AAA game titles as Head of Production. Managed console (Nintendo Wii, Sony PSP, Microsoft Xbox 360), mobile and Facebook game projects for Televisa and Grupo Bimbo.-Experience with first party AAA title submission guidelines and production processes.

Mexico City, Mexico, Mx

-Led a team of 5 people with minimal supervision, later promoted to Head of Production.-Collaborated with the Development and Quality Assurance teams.

Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mx

-Designed, programmed and published a game for Xbox 360.-Led a small team of international creative talent.

Chihuahua, Mx