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Cary, NC, US

San Jose, CA, US

• Oversaw operations for a hybrid engineering team, balancing new feature development against ongoing maintenance work. Initiated and supervised process improvements focused on enhancing cross-department collaboration.
• Established and fostered agile practices within an engineering team that had previously operated without formal project management support.
• Led project incubation till executive approval for various projects up towards $4M in budget.
• Accelerated deploy time for updates to shared system by over 60%, while simultaneously improving incident response time through a streamlined change management process.
• Kickstarted an organization-wide initiative to standardize tooling and enable consistent metrics, drastically reducing managerial overhead.
• Coached senior managers in Jira software and drove adoption of new plugins.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

• Planned scope, capacity, dependencies, and timelines for a centralized team of engineers supporting multiple projects, continuously reporting development status to senior management.
• Implemented data-driven burndown charts and forecasts, accurately predicting milestone dates for live ops release cycles.
• Guided and motivated engineering teams through the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, defining day-to-day operations in an unprecedented WFH environment.
• Collaborated with engineering leads to establish project roadmaps and managed their execution.
• Formalized a change request process that got adopted studio wide to facilitate tracking of newfeature development late in production.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Coordinated daily activities for game design, engineering, animation, cinematics, and narrative teams for Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville and proactively resolved roadblocks.
• Covered for Senior Development Director during critical time off, overseeing core development team of over 40 designers and engineers during finaling stages.
• Spearheaded Jira restructuring to facilitate consistent project tracking across domains and improve ease of use for developers and managers.
• Promoted information flow and leadership transparency through team meetings and frequent communication, engaging team members on a project level.

Redwood City, CA, US

• Coordinated daily assignments of 30+ artists at EA Vancouver’s Artworks department.
• Established project schedules, resource requirements, deliverables and task dependencies.
• Acted as point of contact for external partners and facilitated communication across multiple departments, escalating roadblocks as required.
• Optimized outsourcing pipeline, improving production speed by 15% over a course of 3 months and freeing up internal resources.
• Owned the department’s internal patch process and ensured bugs get resolved on time.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

• Fundamentally shaped daily business operations in a fast-paced startup environment and led project execution from investor pitch preparation till release.
• Developed project plans, defined staffing needs, managed internal and external resources, and coordinated communication.
• Created an agile development framework with review and approval processes that quickly became company standard.
• Participated in hiring and outsourcing to third party vendors.
• Mentored junior project managers in agile development methodologies.

Vancouver, BC, CA

• Project Manager and Producer in a highly agile environment working with industry clients
• Developed various game concepts, short films, and innovative apps
• Established project vision, scope, and timeline
• Owned client communication, project documentation, and managed team expectations

• Assisted in the design of various print media
• Used various techniques such as digital image editing, vector images, drawing, hand-colouring and photography
• Handled client contact and communication

• Designed new gameplay features, balanced existing content, and owned documentation
• Tested game builds, traced and reported bugs as part of the QA process
• Administered localization and release candidate data

Master'S Degree, Digital Media

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science And Media