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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• Preemptively identify and address any risks, holes in processes, and potential blockers• Create and maintain documentation defining processes, job roles/responsibilities, and glossaries of terminology• Triage bugs to relevant teams• Train and mentor Production staff

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• Triaged bugs to engineer and design team• Conceptualized, built, and documented (in Confluence) card logic scripting and localization workflows

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• Procure Pokémon TCG card asset deliverables from Japan-based partners and distribute to production teams for ingestion

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• Assisted in creation of prototyping game levels in order to provide direction to external dev teams

Ba, East Asian Languages And Cultures, Linguistics

Japanese Studies