• Defined and instrumented development methodologies for MaxPlay• Lead and managed a team of Scrum Masters and Development managers• Scrum Master for several development scrum teams• Defined studio status reporting structures • Championed and assisted with transition of studio to SAFe agile methodology• JIRA administrator • Process analysis and improvements throughout organization leading to higher delivery rate of teams objectives• Transformed disparate and conflicting direction mechanisms into a unified process that involved collaboration from all stakeholders• Manage risk assessment and mitigation • Coordination of backlog prioritization and scope analysis • Milestone planning and and tracking• Coordination with all contracting vendors

Product Owner and a team lead in charge of holding vision and leading a cross disciplined development team on a Star Wars mobile title currently in development. I have an eye for good talent and team building, while understanding what makes a team successful while nurturing a fun creative culture. Responsibilities: managing resources in a distributed development model, backlog maintenance and removal of roadblocks for the team.

Managing a global team of testers, leads, and QA engineers to support all products in development for a mobile development studio. Helping drive research and delivering a viable automation solution for a game studio with multiple projects on the horizon. In an initiative to develop all resources my entire team of testers has become certified in EA’s mobile/basic testing practices.

Lead and managed feature pod development. Responsible for defining and implementing agile processes in developing workflow structures to a game in design phase. As JIRA admin I designed and created our entire database model and implemented Agile methodologies for creating and tracking tasking and defects. I managed the outsourced LOC team across three different countries. I also ran and tracked all tasking for several daily scrum meetings integrating all combined notes on our internal wiki for historical references.

Lead a team of cross disciplined QA testers to releasing one of the lowest bug count games to date at Zynga. Designed and implemented defect tracking software (JIRA) and formalized QA practices, policies and procedures. I was in charge running daily QA scrum meetings, defect tracking and reporting, resource management.

Managed and lead four in house testers along with coordinating with external studios for all releases and general process management to ensure that all releases met design requirements on time. In this position I created processes that are being universally applied to all Release teams saving Zynga time and money in the release efforts while creating complete transparencies for a products release cycle.

Supervised a team of seven resources. Responsible for developing schedules, creating test plans for all new content, and managing policies and procedures as the point of contact for all group content in a large MMO.

I was the producer for third person survival horror game as a final project for college. I managed a full development life cycle of five months with a team consisting of seven artists and six programmers. As producer I was responsible for the planning, scheduling, and delivering the game milestones on time. Strong personality and production skill set helped with conflict resolution, motivation, and developing relationships. This was a great controlled learning experience that has driven me towards the career path of video game production.

Game Design Masters of Science student learning the ins and outs of video game production while developing and leading a team of passionate game developers and artists.