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• Host Agile/Scrum meetings throughout every sprint to maintain alignment between team members, update Jira issues, and identify any found risks.• Conduct Milestone Planning sessions with several teams in both Pre-Production and Production stages using developer’s estimations to schedule multiple months way in advance.• Lead bi-weekly Sprint Planning meetings to reassess the original milestone plan and make sure any work that carries over or is found throughout a sprint is accounted for, as well as creating Stories and Tasks with accurate timeboxing.• Communicate any notable issues to the Production team in order to collaborate on how best to handle high-risk problems, as well as outline any dependencies across our teams.• Onboarding new Associate Producer hires into the wider team with detailed introductions and explanations of processes and tools that differ from their past experiences.• Came up with a plan and set up all the fundamental systems/fields necessary to have Shotgrid become an integral part of the Production and Art team’s pipelines.• Created custom code that utilised REST API functionality for Jira Server and Shotgrid within PHP (Laravel), and later the official Shotgrid to Jira Bridge and Jira libraries in Python for Jira Cloud.

• Orchestrate and partake in remote testing for large AAA clients with detailed bug reports and feedback.• Work closely with other members of leadership to share, discuss and clarify issues essential to effective executions of projects before, during and after testing sessions.• Manage a large number of testers with directions on how to follow test plans accurately, be on time, and deliver quality output in their bug reports, as well as be personable and confident enough to have a conversation with anyone and frequently answer questions to keep large scale testing going smoothly.• Analyse testing data and compose reports for clients to seek and point out the most critical bugs and feedback with comprehensive numeric statistics.

Programming:• Developed and maintained client and server-side distributed systems in a modern MMO infrastructure with adequate scaling and optimisation to house over two million registered users and large active player base.• Coded in a professionally developed large-scale Python codebase (5000+ files) collaboratively with a team of skilled programmers utilising and writing thorough documentation throughout.• Used Git (GitLab) Version Control to create branches for features/changes and merge requests for departmental code review ready for deployment.Game Design:• Created detailed design documents to convey ideas to the Game Design department and give myself and other programmers a list of specifications to implement from.• Used data analysis on existing metrics to better understand the impact of game systems and ways to approach future changes and balancing.• Set up and utilised playtesting sessions of release candidates of content to get feedback on mechanics and balance.Community Interaction:• Used Discord, Reddit and Twitter to communicate and engage with a large community as a professional staff figure to bridge the gap and gather feedback/ideas.• Provided news, maintenance updates, support and troubleshooting tips directly to the community.

Salford, England, United Kingdom

• Assisted professors that tutor large classes by providing one-to-one, in-class help to first-year university students in topics such as User interfaces, Programming and Databases.• Handed out worksheets, took attendance and answered questions from students when the leading tutor was occupied.• Collaborated with the professors both in class and online due to the dynamic nature of class plans and scheduling.

• Tested a wide variety of games on multiple platforms from very recognisable AAA developers remotely.• Worked under a group of leaders and moderators whilst also acting as part of the community helping others perform their testing duties effectively.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science, 2:1

Level 3 Btec, Computing & Software Development, Distinction* Distinction* Distinction*