Paul Colbert Email & Phone Number

Greater Los Angeles Area

Supported PMO manager with an emphasis on monitoring and reporting on day-to-day activities to ensure smooth departmental operations.• Implemented a budget reallocation process for individual project budget change requests to ensure that the overall title budget was depleted prior to requesting additional funds, increasing Production Management approval rates for change requests.• Assisted in the creation of the weighted average test cost as a key performance indicator by researching and analyzing historical test costs resulting in a budget forecast matrix used to forecast test costs for three and five year test slates.• Provided regular QA cost updates on current and forecasted titles for use in determining the annual operating budget.• Created a centralized resource documenting the policies and procedures of the PMO group.

Supported QA manager with an emphasis on coaching and mentoring QA Project Leads through the process of quality assurance testing of pre-release games. • Ensured an effective and organized test process through direct coaching of assigned QA Project Leads and review of all emails and daily reports sent.• Served as liaison to Production Management for all issues relating to the test process.• Compiled yearly performance reviews for 3 to 8 Project Leads and Senior Testers.Titles Worked On:• Senior Project Lead – Call of Duty: World at War (Xbox360/PS3/PC/Wii/PS2/NDS), James Bond: Quantum of Solace (Xbox360/PS3/PC/Wii), Quantum of Solace: The Game (NDS) APAC Localizations, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (Xbox360/PS3) Localizations, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Xbox360/PS3/PC), Spider-Man 3 (PS2/Wii/Xbox 360/PS3), Activision Hits Remixed (PSP), Marvel Ultimate Alliance (Xbox/PS2/PSP/Xbox 360/PS3/Wii), Call of Duty 3 (Xbox/PS2/Xbox 360/PS3/Wii), X-Men: The Official Game (Xbox/NGC/PS2/Xbox 360), Madagascar (PC) Localizations, Madagascar (NGC/PS2) Japanese, Ultimate Spider-Man (Xbox/NGC/PS2), X-Men Legends 2 (PC), Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (Xbox) Localizations, Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Xbox, NGC, PS2)

Trained, mentored, and supervised teams of up to 25 testers through the process of quality assurance testing pre-release games.• Created budget, test plan, and checklists for assigned projects.• Served as liaison to Production Management for all issues relating to the test process • Composed daily reports on test activity to be sent to Production and QA Management.• Compiled quarterly reviews for all assigned temporary employees.Titles Worked On:• Project Lead – Rome: Total War (PC), Call of Duty (PC) Localizations, Shrek 2: Team Action (PC) Localizations, Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (PC) Localizations• Tester – Tony Hawk’s Underground (PS2)

Supported QA Project Lead with emphasis on assisting in the training and mentoring of test teams of up to 15 testers.• Served as an Acting Project Lead as needed.• Performed functional and localization testing of pre-release gamesTitles Worked On:• Acting Project Lead – Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven (PS2)• Floor Lead – Soldier of Fortune 2 (Xbox) Localizations• Tester – Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Tide of War (Xbox), Minority Report (Xbox/NGC/PS2), Rally Fusion: Race of Champions (NGC), Lost Kingdoms 2 (NGC), Street Hoops (NGC) Localizations, Wreckless: The Yazuka Missions (NGC/PS2)