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Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

County Dublin, Ireland

Responsibilities: Introducing Agile based methodology for scheduling and tracking the company's pipeline development work on asset and lighting ingest systems. Including the use of standups as a communication tool.Creation and assessment of weekly production reports across the animation and lighting teams.Development of a ticketing system via Shotgun to report and monitor issues across the development pipeline for both internal and client based systems.Client liaison and management.Creation of render farm assessment tools to plan for rendering requirements and cost these across the project.Identification of regular project activities to set and structure weekly goals for the project deliveries.Monitoring progress through the animation pipeline stages.

County Waterford, Ireland

Responsibilities:Created a revenue pipeline through funded research for the AR/VR unit.Delivered research projects as defined by client requirements and Enterprise Ireland.Line management and development of staff members. Allocation and monitoring of budget and staff resources.Managed relationship with other research units within the company and external partners.Developed the overall vision and strategy for the AR/VR research unit.Represented the unit and TSSG at international conferences.Reported to the TSSG executive and management team.Intellectual property management with the Technology Transfer Office.

County Dublin, Ireland

Responsibilities:Project management of external contractors in the development of software applications and websites to aid productivity, work tracking and communication.Worked closely with the Director of Engineering and relevant teams to determine the scope of work for projects and analyse requirements.In conjunction with external developers, created and managed project plans for all projects and ensured the developer delivered on this.Ensured all risks and issues are identified, managed, communicated and resolved.Lead the development and delivery of software to agreed quality standards and ensured feedback was assessed and incorporated through each development cycle.Worked with internal and external teams to coordinate releases.Provided weekly reports and feedback to Director of Engineering and other project Stakeholders.

Derby, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:PM accountable for the project at all stages i.e. from project inception and feature set decisions, budget and milestone sign-offs, right through to project completion and prioritisation of bug fixes before release.Main point of contact on all aspects of the project i.e. internal development team, the client and development partners. For example my last project required coordination with offshore teams including external QA (Quebec, Minneapolis and Dublin), Network Development (Minneapolis and Dublin), Localisation (Dublin), Marketing, Publishing (London and Minneapolis) and Manufacturing (Santa Monica and London).Maintaining and developing a professional working relationship with the client i.e. update meetings, incorporating feedback and requests, managing the client’s expectations of the project and communicating this clearly to team members and development partners.Represent the company via meetings or presentations with additional project partners or licensors.Ensuring clear communication channels within the team through the use of regular Leads and Team meetings and making sure all disciplines are coordinating together.Provide concise project status reports to company directors and clients as well as being answerable for all project related matters.Worked on multiple projects with varying team sizes ranging from 30 to 100 developers. Projects I have managed have varied from eight months to two years development time.Directing and managing the department leads and team members.Negotiating project changes with the client and costing these. Note that this included both changes requested by the client and changes requested by us i.e. the developer.

County Dublin, Ireland

Responsibilities:Reported to the General Managers of the Dublin and Oslo offices.Brought on board to Project Manage the last 6 months of a project and ensured that tasks were prioritised and delegated correctly with the team leads.Responsible for communication with the client.Tasked with moving the company forward to the development of larger titles with a view to working towards the parent company's online focus.Tasked to combine the company’s small development teams into one large team and create the structures and processes to manage this team efficiently.

County Dublin, Ireland

Responsibilities:Project durations were typically between 3 to 12 months.Managed multiple small cross discipline teams on European and Worldwide releases of Vivendi’s titles. Team sizes varied between 8-20 people.Strong multi-tasking abilities were required as typically managed 3 plus projects at any one time in various stages of development.Creation of project schedules, task assignment and tracking with team leads and resource allocation with department managers to ensure localised versions were released within an agreed window of their US counterpart.Cost tracking to ensure the project kept within the allocated budget.Managed 3rd party vendor relations in target countries.Managed European marketing requests.In conjunction with the QA department, responsible for project sign off and release to manufacturing.