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Seattle, WA, US

Redmond

• Category & business manager for Xbox & Halo hardlines (incl. toys, electronics, collectibles, and furniture). Also, manage outbound licensing of all Halo music, as well as video content.
• Pitch and negotiate new licensing deals with prospective licensees to secure the best terms for each IP.
• Evaluate and negotiate renewals with existing partners when appropriate.
• Extensive experience with budgeting, P&L, and forecasting. This includes a quarterly review of sales performance for all existing licensees and evaluation of the impact of new business opportunities.
• Collaborate with internal teams such as legal, retail business development, product development, finance, and marketing to provide support to our licensees.
• Manage day-to-day communication with licensees, including regular meetings to discuss strategy, product development, sell-in, sell-thru, and any other issues.

Redmond

• Negotiated contracts with licensees for the Halo Consumer Products program. This required close collaboration with our legal department and business management team.
• Collaborated with our legal team to create new contract templates for new business categories, and improve or modify any existing templates to be detailed and clear.
• Reviewed and invoiced for all licensee royalty reports each quarter, as well as tracking recoupment of advances and minimum guarantees.
• Provided monthly and annual financial summaries for business reviews, including analysis of revenue against budget and YoY comparison.
• Developed and managed quarterly forecast updates from all licensees, including a review of forecasts against actual revenue, and flagged any significant variance to the forecast.

Kirkland, WA

• Managed business & development of Halo personalization content for Xbox Live (e.g. avatars and themes). This involved setting a budget, developing creative concepts, working with the vendor to manage product.
• Worked with licensees to review product submissions and provide feedback collected from internal product reviews and suggestions for how to correct the submission.
• Worked closely with the Franchise team to ensure each product accurately reflects the Halo brand.
• Provided licensees with necessary assets, style guides, and relevant franchise lore.
• Reviewed product line lists from licensees and flagged any potential issues and provided alternate options that complimented existing marketing beats.

Redmond, WA

• Managed the launch of digital content sold on the Xbox Live Marketplace (XBLM) with various 3rd party publishers (3PPs).
• Trained publishers and vendors on how to use the various tools needed to publish content to XBL.
• Edited and published marketing content for games, including streaming videos, marketing text and images, and game manuals, using Adobe CS5 products.

Redmond, WA

• Managed the development of digital content with 3PPs throughout the entire product lifecycle. Provided work-back schedules, concept design strategy, ROI forecasting, and managed the project’s budget.
• Coordinated with internal stakeholders to ensure all project tasks were on schedule and provided feedback on project development. Worked with various teams, such as Geo-Political, Legal, Localization, Xbox LIVE.
• Created detailed post-launch revenue reports for internal and external partners.

Seattle, WA

• Built and established new senior-level business-to-business (b2b) relationships with 3rd party game publishers to secure various licensing contracts.
• Account manager for 100+ online game companies; created and reviewed monthly royalty reporting and post-launch performance analysis. Managed licensing of over 300 online games.
• Successfully launched a program to release a new online game every day. This involved securing numerous licensing deals, managing the development of a publishing tool and a site-wide re-model. This campaign resulted in.
• Negotiated contract terms such as revenue share distribution, exclusivity timelines, marketing guarantees, perpetuity terms, and royalty advances.

• Coauthored a research paper on the reversal of brain atrophy following a transsphenoidal microadenomectomy.
• Recruited study participants and answered questions about the study.
• Learned and practiced all HIPAA and Informed Consent protocol.
• Measured MRI results and analyzed data.

Ba, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Psi Chi National Honor's Society, Japan Student Association (Language Exchange Program)• Undergraduate Research.

Psychology

Activities and Societies: Co-founder of Psychology Club, Vice President of Psychology Club• 3.7 GPA • Dean's List

General Studies

Activities and Societies: MCCC LGBTQ (Founder)