Reporting directly to the GM with full responsibility for leadership of delivery teams to drive outcomes and deliver ROI to clients and Arq Group with respect to each organisation’s strategic and operational objectives. This includes Governance & organisational processes, setting up the team and maximising engagement, setting direction and establishing organisational culture and work practices.- Directed the delivery component for client pitches leading to project wins with 2 key clients in the travel sector worth a collective $2.6MM, now with ongoing governance oversight for both project deliveries.- Created & implemented consistent project documentation templates & execution process across Arq nationally, in collaboration with Northern Region Delivery Leads, improving project initiation and team on-boarding.

Reported to the Head of Delivery, with people leadership responsibilities whilst coaching squads toward key outcomes and delivering ROI to clients and Arq Group. This included Governance & delivery process, setting up the team and maximising engagement.- Successfully Program Managed the largest product development project for the business, worth $18.5MM, working with a key financial services partner. Co-ordinating frontend development for 7 blended, cross functional squads, across 3 states.- Coached the full mobile team through significant change and company re-structure resulting in positive outcomes through team wide issue and solution workshops, in collaboration with People & Culture and Senior Management, leading to a 34% improvement in engagement within 1 month of the re-structure.- Whilst leading product teams to deliver key customer focused solutions for clients, implemented changes to process and tools resulting in 30% improvement to productivity within my first 3 months for the business.- Trained and coached team members across all areas of the business in Agile thinking and the Scrum framework achieving an NPS score of 9/10 through feedback surveys and data collection.

Reported to the Head of Delivery, supporting the team through acquisition whilst continuing to deliver a key travel application for the NSW Department of Transport.Outware Mobile was in the process of acquisition by Arq Group when I joined the business.

Reported to the Senior Director of Product Development, with responsibility for building and directly running full capability cross functional teams of 80 full time members to devise and create complex creative software, with budgets ranging from US$3MM to US$12MM.- Built and led a high performing cross functional team of more than 75 members. Attaining high team engagement, development and team health survey scores, whilst delivering a 3-year project on time and to budget, achieving target revenue of US$55MM within the first year of release.- Delivered ongoing monthly updates as a live service to the title through a continuous value delivery model, utilising direct player analytics and user feedback to clarify new features required, pain points in the player journey and opportunities for tightening the funnel to increase revenue generation.- Collaborated closely with Google key stakeholders to deliver the first full VR product from the studio, on time and US$1.8MM under budget which was contributed as pure margin to the studio’s bottom line. The title delivered an additional US$300K profit within 1 week of release.

Reported directly to the GM of the studio, responsible for the development and growth on Android and additional platforms across all studio franchises through the management of multiple internationally distributed teams, accountable for project schedules and budgets across each of the studio franchises.- Grew the department, working with internationally distributed teams to achieve a 96% gross margin for my area of responsibility across new and legacy titles.- Generated significant enough profit to enable the growth of the internal teams for existing titles to bring Android development in-house, further maximising development and cost efficiencies, allowing for the first simultaneous cross platform releases within EA Mobile internationally.- Invited to present to key EA stakeholders on Android development best practices and coach other international game teams on achieving simultaneous releases for their upcoming titles.

Reported directly to the GM of the studio, responsible for product scope, development processes, budget and roadmap, and building close working relationships with key international clients for product delivery.- Directly responsible for winning the studios’ first US$1MM+ project, the critically acclaimed, “Dead Space”.- Led the project management team across each of the studio franchises, driving process improvements in project schedule and budget tracking.- Worked with the Studio GM on strategic decisions for the studio product roadmap and operating budget, resulting in a 50% growth to the team to account for additional successful IP development.

Reported to the SVP for WW Content Organisation, responsible for studio assessments and due diligence for developers in the APAC region in collaboration with the VP for Business Development. Presented milestone deliverables, Status, Risk management and reporting to green light committee, Executive Producer and Head of Production.- Identified a US$1.5MM shortfall in an acquired project resulting in a successful on-sale of that project to a 3rd party, eventually achieving a US$500K profit from the sale.- Oversaw and delivered "Qubed", the first and only bundle from legendary Japanese game designer, Tetsuya Mizuguchi.- Solely responsible for international QA teams on multiple titles driving on time submission to key 1st party partners, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.- Set up and ran internal QA and Localisation teams for titles distributed in the Asia Pacific region, resulting in same day releases across Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China.

As a key member of the Atari Asia Pacific team, raised the profile and importance of Asian localisation to all publishing and development departments within the company. Over this time I built the department from zero to a peak of 20 heads.Managed localisation teams to facilitate 1st & 3rd party releases tailored for the Asian games market.Managed outsourced art creation projects, contract deliverables & budget negotiation.Liaison with global development studios regarding audio, art and required code localisation for Asian language SKUs.

Responsible for globalisation/localisation process, covering resource allocation, budget and schedule overview.Identified lack of audio expertise and gained overview responsibility for audio related issues within games development, including audio production when required.Ran due diligence for existing & new 3rd party vendors for localisation contracts. I quickly identified budget discrepancies from a 3rd party translation vendor, saving the department significant long term costs.Deputy Head of department under Group Localisation Manager.

Managed A/V production department, responsible for deliverables, resourcing, departmental budget management and process improvement.Compiled & created templates, schedules, evaluation reports, estimates, quotes and other administrative tools for Audio/Visual projects.Direct involvement in the assessment, recording and processing stages of multiple A/V projects.Liaison with clients and internal departmental managers regarding all aspects of project execution.

Sound recording and mix engineer. In-house and freelance. Various credits including but not limited to:http://www.matrix-studios.co.uk/