Randolph Ma 馬賢德 Email & Phone Number

Burbank, Ca

Primary contact with VPs, directors, and producers on games in production providing creative consultation and approvals. Responsibilities include evaluating and shepherding games from greenlight to production and live-service release. In contact with Television, Film, and Global Franchise teams to deliver content for key calendar beats. Interface with studio and publishing directors to achieve quality & creative goals, while resolving IP requirements for stakeholders.Creative duties include narrative story development, character art and game design, reviewing and rewriting dialog, and general creative consulting for IP representation for characters and setting. Providing solutions to organically integrate game mechanics, design, and general meta-game for each respective title. Facilitating partnerships with third-party developers and publishers for cross/mash-up opportunities for key franchise beats. Working with department directors and producers globally, specifically the Asian mobile game market, to ensure IP integrity and quality for both internally developed and external partnered titles.Managing producers and training department team to review titles in production, research, asset gathering, and project ownership. Leading educational seminars to teach department employees to improve communication, management, and work culture. And providing general career development for direct reports with to goal for them to function confidently and independently. Providing project updates to VPs and the Chief Creative Officer. Creating decks tracking the gaming landscape, release windows, and audience competition. Also creating Business and Marketing decks for pitches and milestone updates for internal and external stakeholders.PROJECTS: Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Gotham Knights, Multiversus, DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power, The Wolf Among Us Season 2, Teeny Titans Go Figure, DC Unchained, LEGO DC Super-Villains, DC Universe Online.

Burbank, Ca

• Managing internal and external producers (North & South America, Europe, & Asia) throughout game production, tracking schedules, and identifying hindrances in the production pipeline. Assist in pitches and communications with prospective developers for DC game titles. Provide and route assets and approvals for visual and game design documents along with feedback on testing, quality, and brand notes. Working with Marketing, Legal, Publishing, CP, TV/Film and Franchise teams to align and coordinate approvals, initiatives, and partnerships for interactive related product and materials for live service content.Creation and upkeep of IP bibles to introduce properties to prospective partners and for internal department reference. Narrative review of in-game dialog, localization, script coverage, and re-writes. Weighing in on art direction and character design. Review marketing copy and press assets for approval. Work with licensees for publishing, DC Collectables, and other partnerships on videogame related product. Creation of Franchise Media calendar for partners to create a release slate for live-service games.PROJECTS: LEGO Dimensions, Batman: Arkham VR, Injustice 2, Batman: The Telltale Series, Teeny Titans.

Burbank, Ca

• Assist Creative Director Interactive in all aspects of creative gaming process and in quality control for console and PC video games, mobile video games, and web-based video games. Manage department personnel, running team meetings, check-ins, streamlining production pipeline, and scheduling. Providing production updates to internal executive partners on progress of games in production and prospective live plans.Review games scripts and art assets at each stage of production. Provide assets related to games in production; including making copies and trafficking assets. Provide asset and content support for DCE’s website. Reviewing all game builds through each stage of the production process to ensure character and brand integrity. Working with supervision on various projects produced by book-publishing licensees (editing text, providing character reference, quality control of submissions, etc).Managing game builds and testing hardware for the department. Distribution of console development kits, game builds, patches, and SDKs. Troubleshooting IT issues with installations and updates. In charge of game inventory and office management for the department testing rooms. Art and asset approvals tracking for both production, marketing, and digital assets for consumer products.PROJECTS: Batman: Arkham Knight, Batman: Arkham Origins, LEGO Batman 3, The Wolf Among Us.

Manhatten Beach, Ca

Assisting the VP of Production, Marketing, Business Development, and Production Managers on all Marvel game titles. Duties include brand assurance, research, asset trafficking, production and marketing approvals, game design feedback, story script feedback, testing, and product management.Maintained the product slate calendar and production schedules on Marvel titles. Coordinating cross promotional campaigns with Theatrical, Consumer Products, Creative Services, Publishing, and Television departments on production and marketing opportunities. Creating Business and Marketing presentations for internal pitches and prospective clients. Submitting monthly reports on department activities, updates, and business developments. Scheduling and notation of all department meetings for business, production, and marketing.Managing department interns for additional support, research, and coordinating duties for the department.PROJECTS: Deadpool, LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, Marvel Puzzle Quest, Marvel War of Heroes, Marvel Avengers Alliance, Marvel Heroes

Santa Monica, Ca

Managing console developer kits, game builds, patches,and SDKs. Responsible for reviewing and submitting all media and metadata to the Xbox and Sony online marketplace. Assemble and verify clip packages using internal Downloadable Content (DLC) management tools. Upload digital media and metadata files to Xbox and PS3 developer partner sites for testing, approval and submission. Track and manage clip status and all associated assets. Handling media assets, organization, and delivery for easy access and tracking within the production pipeline. Verify functionality of content in-game and integration with Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites. Assist in managing the quality assurance team.PROJECTS: Yoostar 2: In the Movies, Yoostar on MTV.

Responsible for authoring various music artist for the Rock Band franchise. Responsibilities include note tracking and button assignments for Guitar/Bass/Drums/Vocals. Other responsibilities include directing model animations and testing.

Video producer and editor for walkthroughs and online media content for Mahalo Videogames. Responsibilities include covering and coordinating future game titles in the department, technical support for audio/visual equipment, community management and content creator for the Mahalo Games website, Twitter, Facebook, and other online sites, and coordinating with remote employees. Also responsible for having extensive knowledge of game releases, platforms, and the games industry.Managed a team of ten editors and producers. Setting up pipelines for production, editing tools, and formats for efficiency and uniformity of the web channel.

Processing game trailers and other video and image assets. Titling, describing and otherwise tagging videos on G4tv.com. Posting and writing up videos on our blog. Creating image galleries and uploading images to them.

Assisting the professor with audio/video duties. Creating PDF copies of class readings, placing required readings and audio/visual materials on reserve at the university library. Leading and planning discussion sections for undergraduate students as well as grading midterms, papers, and finals.

Intern in licensed games department doing research for Marvel Studios properties, reviewing game design documents, marking brand issues, providing feedback on games in development, being present in conference meetings, brainstorming new properties for development consideration, development and quality testing for iPhone, mobile, Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and Marvel.com flash games. PROJECTS: Marvel Super Hero Squad the Game, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, Iron Man 2 the Game, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Marvel vs Capcom 3.

QA Tester responsible for testing videogames for Activision. Working collaboratively with the QA Team, writing up detailed descriptions and instructions bugs for developers to verify and fix, completing functionality checklists, confirming Production verifies fixes, and being extremely adaptable in a variety of games. Experienced production sprints through full game release candidates and publisher submission.PROJECTS: Quantum of Solace and Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades.

Video editor with responsibilities such as editing numerous promotional material for conventions and broadcast. Timing and transcribing translations for home video release of anime programming. Present for various voice over recording sessions.

Staff writer who wrote film reviews and provided feature articles about seasonal holiday top 10 lists, genre or film franchise history overviews, film festivals, interviews, and Academy Award debates. Notable stories include: Analyzing Ebert (Ebertfest), Point and Counterpoint (debate on Crash), Sailing to Byzantium (No Country for Old Men), and Movies that Suck (but we love them anyway).

Radio producer in charge of voice talent, recording voiceovers, producing and assembling commercials, and acting as a stand-by disc jockey. Duties required me to work closely with the advertising department for the Illini Media creating mock sales commercials to obtain clients as well as assist on-location for station promo events.

Editor for video shoots at Dreamscape cinema; Editor for the “Making of Disconnect” Documentary, Assistant Editor for the films Angst & Disposable, and editor for commercial clients. I also worked as an assistant cameraman and soundman on various location and green-screen studio shoots. Other duties include press design for film posters and miscellaneous office work including: Video-transcript write-ups, pre-production business plan write-ups, obtaining soundtrack copyrights and script overviews.

Masters, Cinema, Business

Bachelors, Political Science, Cinema Studies