Ryan Porter Email & Phone Number

• Leader of a large managed service agreement between Lakshya and a Microsoft game studio
• Responsible for client and employee management for a multi-disciplinary, 30 person team
• Emphasis on growing relationships internally and externally

Redmond, Washington

• Managing day-to-day development workflow for the Open Prototyping engineering team as we shape the future of prototyping at Microsoft.
• Leading the organizational development efforts for a strong engineering team of 4 senior level software developers and 4 vendor devs.
• Defining and managing development workstreams of a product used for executive level review and introducing Windows 10X to Tom Warren (The Verge).
• Collaborating while facilitating strong relationships with our partner design teams for POR product requirements and creating shared workback schedules to ensure design is 2 steps ahead of engineering deliverables.
• Instituting policies along with controlling the security of our Git repo. All code must have one team member review and approve pull requests. Upon approval PR’s are squash-merged to preserve a clean linear commit.
• Running bi-weekly sprint demos, retrospectives, and planning sessions.

Redmond, Washington

• Worked on-site to manage development efforts of SDK features for Microsoft’s Playfab team.
• Hired, vetted, and allocated 12 developers with specialized skillsets (C++, C#, Unity, Unreal, Ps4, Switch, Xbox).
• Drove 30+ features in a strict timeline while communicating sprint and milestone statuses to management.
• Prioritized workflows for Microsoft devs to facilitate Github code reviews and verify milestone completion.
• Organized interdepartmental communications and meetings via Outlook calendar and Teams.
• Managed project tracking and user story statuses with Azure Devops (Visual Studio Online).

Greater Seattle Area

• Development studio I created with my brother to develop fun and exciting games and applications in our spare time. Our in progress titles are Typographythm, a rhythm typing game, and a novel take on a discussion.
• Managing development efforts of our first title, an absurdist rhythm typing game built in C++ and utilizing scripting for level design.
• Dev efforts managed in Jira / Confluence. Expected release late 2021/early 2022.
• Developing a new spin on a discussion website, with Reddit and Quora as the biggest competitors.
• Website platform being built in Javascript w/ React

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Worked as a PM and assisted with various projects, including publishing efforts for Desert Child and Pax West 2018.
• Created cost projections for potential development projects.
• Drafted release schedules for DLC skins.
• Demoed Desert Child at Microsoft’s ID Pre Pax event 2018.
• Used Realtime Board to collate art references for new characters within a mobile fighting game.

Greater Seattle Area

• By utilizing agile/scrum development philosophy, I brought the organization structure to help our teams succeed under challenging circumstances while delivering milestones on time and within budget.
• Primary producer for a fast-paced indie game studio.
• Coordinated timely releases of deliverables on five projects simultaneously.
• Provided level of effort assessment, feasibility, and development requirements for milestone deliverables.
• Functioned as point of contact with designers, clients, and developers.
• Used Jira/Confluence, Trello, and Assembla project management software.

Redmond, Washington

• Provided management, support, web design direction, and solutions to individual customer needs across projects for web, desktop, and mobile platforms.
• Oversaw our technical implementation on 54 million printed ballots for the 2016 Philippines election.
• Managed releases of customer facing web applications for iOS/Android.
• Led international development efforts of Pagemark’s Track-and-Trace software.
• Built projects for customers using Eclipse/Android Studio and XCode. Pushed iOS builds to TestFlight.
• Supported multiple international trade shows and managed partner meetings in Japan, Philippines, and UK.

Kirkland, Washington

• Honed the skill of providing polished, bug-free software in a AAA studio, utilizing regression testing, ad hoc, and test scripts.
• My attention to detail gave me the ability to think of creative ways to test the stability of software.
• Hired during a large project and had my contract extended as a high valued team member.