Managed over 40+ fulltime employees – Full Stack, Backend, Mobile, Architects, QA, and DevOps.• Define and Execute Technical Roadmaps for both Enterprise (B2B Solutions) and Consumer (B2C) stacks.• Create ROI’s, Review Annual Budgets, Orchestrate Resource Growth and Allocations, Analyze Business Objectives and review path of execution.• Manage our multi-city developer teams across both consumer and enterprise platforms, backend services through front-end mobile apps (Android, IOS & Web)• Act as a business leader, recruitment and development of departmental staff• Working with business partners across organization to identify opportunities and drive growth• Direct development and delivery of software solutions to meet customer needs• Participated and owned articles for SOC2 Compliance.• Identify and execute business process improvements related to technical applications, systems and client implementations• Work alongside Hardware and Product to coordinate business objectives• Represent company’s software development expertise in winning of new business along with sales department• Forecast, plan, research and select new technologies enabling company to attain business goals• Lead and direct interdepartmental teams towards integration of these new services into organizational network• Provide strategic direction for technical assessment, definition, prioritization, architecture, design and deployment of new products and services• Analyze various technical solutions and recommend based on technical and financial merits• Ensure proposed new features and capabilities integrated into existing networks using company current and future network technologies• Identify and investigate advanced technologies offering company significant technical and financial benefits• Lead and manage QA and DevOps and 24x7 support teams, promoting cross functional execution and communication, for client support worldwide.

Development Director with over 15 years in the Mobile gaming IndustryStrong organizational skills, ability to manage geographically dispersed cross functional teams in a fast pace and constantly changing environmentSpecialties:Certified Scrum Master (Certification #: 244264)http://www.scrumalliance.org/profiles/244264-robert-pitmanStrong focus on managing performance through coaching and mentoring to foster/nurture a high performing teamStrong communicator with mediation and conflict resolution skillsAbility to think outside the box in a challenging and ambiguous environment; being resourceful and creating constructive and innovative solutionsIs able to effectively partner with stakeholders outside of team, to establish alliances, and aid in strategic planningParticipate in translating strategic business objectives into tactical requirements that can be operationalized/executedProactive at identifying risks and issues associated with meeting project milestones that may/will impede progress or compromise projects objectives; ensures necessary steps are taken to deliver resolutionProactively anticipates and adjusts for gaps, risks and roadblocks at PMO level (example, resourcing and budgeting)

Concept and design of new content, features and mechanics for IOS and Android platformsManaging Cross Functional teams to deliver updates and rebrand/refresh existing catalogue titlesSprint Planning and Maintaining backlogs for all titles Monetisation for existing IP’s and creation of new IP’s for Montreal StudioMentoring and training of junior and Associate Producers and Development ManagersAAA Titles worked on include Scrabble Free Android, Need For Speed Shift, Sims 3, Dead Space Android, Game of Life, Monopoly and ScrabbleLast call on quality and content for all titles

Managing Cross Functional teams in Montreal, Romania and India to produce new content and updates for IOS and Android platformsConcept to completion of new IP’s and updatesDay to day co-ordination of assigned projects for developers and QA and Art teamsResponsible for creation of Dev Tester process allowing production QA to better test pre-QA builds and report issues, improving first passes for builds entering QA proper– subsequently rolled out among all HL teams WorldwideCreation of analytical tools and processes to increase quality of deliverables and productivity including CVS database used by Porters to better find suitable base builds for new devicesRated as Above Target per last performance review

Day to day co-ordination of assigned projects, partnering with our clients to agree timelines and delivery dates plus contractual agreementsResponsible for directly managing engineering team of eighteen full time developers across multiple projects and platforms for several high profile clients simultaneously Briefing and managing test teams and tracking of all QA relevant tasks per project including offsite and carrier specific testingFormulation of strategies and related test plans documentationEnsuring all project deliverables comply with company and client quality standardsWorked offsite with larger clients to ensure quality of finalisation on Gold masters candidates, including Nokia LA, Tira Wireless Toronto, Warthog Games and Argonaut among others

Tasked with opening the Montreal studio for Babel Media Brighton in their 2nd expansion abroad (first being India) I grew the test team from 5 to over 200 and started the mobile porting team which expanded from 3 developers to 16 full time at its peak. Working with companies such as Warner Brother Digital on the 300 film tie in game, Namco, Konami, Capcom, and Electronic art to provide AAA certification and testingOversaw the building of a separate high-security server suite for Nokia Labs testing that employed 20 full-time testers working on Nokia certification and lead numerous away missions (hit squads) to the UK, Toronto, Los Angeles, and other countries for Console and PC testing.

QA testing and bug reportingDesign of test case documentation from GDC, setting test teams daily/weekly tasksVetting and assignment of defectsMonitoring and maintaining bug databases Client facing on issues and testing focus