Ryan S. Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Achievements:
• Successfully globally launched the Pokémon Trading Card Game Live as Production lead of card functionality/visualsResponsibilities:
• Producer on LiveOps team responsible for helping ship releases and features
• Managed 3 teams (Card Logic, Match Logic, Card UI/UX/VFX) to design and build cards for battle through full development cycles
• Lead agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives)
• Create and track development schedules from work discovery to release; executing against game priorities and stakeholders' wishes

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Achievements:
• Led Pokémon Trading Card Game Live's card logic scripting design team as lead designer and production lead
• Led localization of Pokémon Trading Card Game Live as production leadResponsibilities:
• Scripted card logic behavior using Unity, Perforce and JIRA
• Worked closely with engineering to design, build, and improve card logic scripting and localization dev tools
• Created, scheduled, and assigned Story work to engineering and card logic scripting team using JIRA

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Achievements:
• Facilitated production management of over 8 western expansions of the Pokémon Trading Card Game (Pokémon TCG)
• Maintained relationships and communication between Japan-based partners and internal departments as bilingual communications liaisonResponsibilities:
• Schedule, assign, and manage team members' production tasks using MS Project, Workfront, and Backlog
• Proactively engage in production workflow analysis in order to streamline existing processes
• Provide timely progress status updates to upper management

Greater Seattle Area

・JP to EN localization of high-profile video game software titles.

Tokyo, Japan

• Achievements:
• Led in-house and external localization teams to create quality localizations of Sega-brand mobile game entertainment for territories worldwideResponsibilities:
• Supervised mobile game localization projects (JP ➡ EFIGS)
• Created and drove schedule for internal/external localization teams, design teams, and QA testers
• CAT tool personnel training

Tokyo, Japan

• Achievements:
• Localized Niconico Douga website and mobile apps (JP ➡ EN)
• Generated content shown on the English language version of Niconico Douga website
• Facilitated marketing of world-class western merchandise (Including Minecraft), services, franchises geared toward the Japanese marketResponsibilities:
• Translated Niconico Douga website, apps, and technical documentation
• Interfaced with international partners for API integration

Tokyo, Japan

• Achievements:
• Led in-house localization team to create quality localizations of widely-acclaimed smartphone game "Legend of the Cryptids".Responsibilities:
• Managed localization teams and QA
• Created and drove schedule for internal localization teams, design teams, and QA testers
• Staff training and mentoring

Tupelo, Mississippi

Served as a translator/interpreter to assist automotive engineers at Toyota Autobody's last automotive part manufacturing plant in North America.

Tokyo, Japan

• Achievements:
• As publishing producer, oversaw external development of major third-person shooter MMORPG running on Unreal Engine 3.5
• As lead localization producer oversaw JP to EN localization of Asian version of Monster Hunter FrontierResponsibilities:
• Worked closely with external dev studios to manage and track development of outsourced game projects
• Facilitated communication between internal teams and external dev studios
• Evaluated game milestone deliverables and provided feedback to dev team

Ba, East Asian Languages And Cultures, Linguistics

Japanese Studies