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Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

Performing business analysis, product specification, and project management for internal software development projects. Working on projects that cover fund administration operations, cryptocurrency digital asset interfaces, web portal applications for clients and investors, SWIFT wire transfer integration, and high-volume document processing automation. Project technical platforms range from legacy .NET applications, to Angular/React web apps, to cloud-native initiatives. Using contemporary project management tools, I lead and coordinate the work of a globally distributed development team, with members located in Cayman, Toronto, New York, Dublin, Eastern Europe.

Barcelona Area, Spain

Product owner of the highly successful mobile game, Minion Rush, a multi-million dollar product with 2.5M+ daily active users. Managed the live operations of the game as a service, in close partnership with brand owners - NBCUniversal and Illumination Entertainment. Led the game development update cycle, releasing new content across iOS and Android versions every six weeks: • Planned the product strategy, making data-driven decisions with support from studio Economy Designers and Data Scientists.• Provided project management leadership to the core development team, including software engineers, 3D artists, UX/UI artists, game designers, and animators.• Leveraged company resource teams across the globe, from Asia/Europe/Americas, to manage the full software development lifecycle.Managed the game's daily business as a product in the market:• Led the marketing and business operations of the game to deliver on revenue goals and product focused KPIs. • Acted as primary contact for the project to top management and external stakeholders.• Led weekly calls with brand owners for content approvals.• Directly managed production, marketing, and community management disciplines.Also involved in pre-production in an unannounced new project - working with Gameloft HQ management on licensing negotiations, budgeting & forecasting, and project planning of an upcoming triple-A mobile game for the studio.

Portland, Oregon

Co-founder in a short-lived simulation gaming start-up. Developed plans for business operations, marketing, PR, finance, and publishing for a series of independent online games blending simulation, idle, and social gaming elements.

Beijing City, China

*Short tenure due to studio closure (Thanks, EA!)Managed development and live operations teams in a multi-cultural and multi-language studio. Directed live operations for SimCity Social, a free-to-play social game, and created the product roadmap in consultation with the GM and Executive Producer.As head of the development studio, managed the operating budget, developed financial forecasts, created staffing plans, worked with central HR and Finance departments, and mentored a team of producers. • Led a 35-member team consisting of producers, 2D/UI artists, 3D artists, client programmers and server engineers.• Led an Agile production process taking techniques from Scrum: 1-week sprints, user stories, integrated QA, product backlogs, and release planning.• Managed communication with the studio’s external partners: core technology teams, publishing operations, community management, network engagement, marketing, art outsourcing, and EA senior management.Established process and project management standards within the studio – created Agile capacity planning tools, drove the development and sprint communication processes.

Atlanta, Ga

Product owner for web and mobile games. Responsible for all development and business success for games developed by Cartoon Network Digital – web, iOS, Android and emerging platforms. Internal Production: Directed the internal game development team of 16 people, consisting of designers, artists, programmers, and producers.External Production: Leading a team of producers, directed the publishing business of 2nd-party and 3rd-party games, working with independent studios:• Managed an annual game development budget of $2.5m.• Researched and selected external partners: development studios, outsourcing, publishing partners.

Greater Atlanta Area

Expanded the team, continuing to act as lead producer. Led new strategy to focus the team on larger multi-player games. Responsible for delivering rich, multi-property games designed to be updated in live operations.Scrum Master for the studio team. Established and coached Scrum practices, with two-week sprints, Jira-based story and task tracking, sprint planning, spring review, and sprint retrospective meetings.• Hired a 3D art team and established new development processes with Unity3D.• Producer for award-winning 3D multiplayer game, Project Exonaut.• Producer for multiple updates to the Cartoon Network MMO, FusionFall.

Greater Atlanta Area

Lead producer and manager of the team. Expanded game development team and consolidated reporting structure. Moved production to a multi-project portfolio, with 3-4 games in development at one time. • Introduced Agile/Scrum into the production process and acted as Scrum Master.• Hired specialized skills, growing team from 4 to 12 members.• Managed all disciplines: programming, art, design, and production.• Produced 15 web games per year, single-player and multi-player.

Atlanta, Ga

• Led new initiative to develop web games internally.• Established project management processes, based on PMI standards.

Client management and project management responsibilities for database technology projects, gathering requirements from clients and managing the development team from concept through implementation. • Work with clients to analyze business needs and define requirements.• Directed development team of 8 programmers and designers.• Conducted on-site presentations, communicating with clients on all project phases.

Cayman Islands

Responsible for market research projects, managing teams of researchers, analyzing the resulting data, and preparing reports for corporate clients.

M.B.A., Marketing

Activities and Societies: Graduate Research Assistant in Solid State Physics lab.

B.S., Applied Physics

Activities and Societies: Student Research Assistant in Solid State Physics lab and Plasma Physics lab, U.S. Navy ROTC, college radio DJ.

High School

Honolulu, Hawaii