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Sacramento, Ca, Us

Redwood City, California, United States

Build and run prototyping process supporting multiple development studios across the mobile label.Coordinate with external and internal development groups, marketing team, legal, creative, and vertical leadership.Consult with multiple studios to assist in optimizing their workflows, development processes, reporting, and rituals.Assist in creating a group-level roadmap, coordinate and assist in creating market insights, and incubate new products and features for existing titles.

Sacramento, California Area

Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle-earth (iOS, Android)* Responsible for workflow management, project timelines, and roadmap planning* Managed co-developer relationships and finances with two external studios* Oversight of game live service operations team* Managed feature development process and feature preproduction and development operational plans

Sacramento, California, United States

Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes (iOS, Android)Art Development Director (2017-2018)Managed a team of artists, constructed workflows and pipeline optimizations, managed agile project development in JIRA, including upward reporting, external partner relationships, and cross-disciplinary strike teams.Live Operations Development Director (2018-2020)Managed the daily operations of the live content creation team, developing releases for consistent two-week turn-arounds. Constructed workflows and managed the processes for two pods of developers and their shared resources. Coordinated with engineering and art teams to synchronize and maintain regular cadence of deliverables. Acted as agile scrum master.Feature Development Director (2020-2022)Developed, maintained, and executed feature team development pipeline, including preproduction cycles, across two functional pods of engineers and designers. Coordinated with the live team to develop binary releases across both client and server architectures for live service game.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Development director/producer for a major mobile live service free-to-play, cross-platform licensed game. Responsible for managing downloadable content releases on a regular cadence and interfacing with the licensor to maintain the standard of visual quality and meet brand expectations. Managed scheduling and workflow of the centralized art team responsible for delivering content for 3 active development pods. Managed input and output of outsourcing and internal art team during initial software development and prototyping, Maintained schedule and output of art team during live service.Interfaced and coordinated between production, art, and development teams on a constant basis to facilitate communication and buy-in in all aspects of game creation.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Lead animation team to create AAA titles in a massive franchise with 80+ metacritic scores.Manage and evolve animation pipeline to maximize efficiency and output.Review, critique and ultimately approve animator work for final production.Maintain work distribution balance among several artists.Participate in high level estimation and planning meetings as the animation representative.Attend scrum/agile meetings as a product owner and as a content creator.Animate characters for game production. Titles for Wii, DS/3DS, PC, X360, PS3, iOS, Android, Mobile

Greater Salt Lake City Area

Cinematics planning.Animation of characters and machinery for in-engine cut scenes.Animation for games (PC, PS3. X360, DS, 3DS, Wii)

Compose weekly articles exploring the theory of the game industry and animation.Edit staff writer articles for content, grammar, and spelling.Wordpress site management.

Character animator on Disney-Pixar's "Cars Mater-national" for the XBox 360 and PS2. Responsible for various cut scene and in-game character animation, staging, camera work, lip-sync and scene direction.Animator on several unreleased projects for next-generation consoles (XBox 360, PS3) including keyframe animation and motion-capture editing for game animation.

Took part in a 10-week internship program where 8 interns designed, scripted and produced a 4 minute animated short film entitled "Hellp!".Acted as lead animator and technical animator/rigger.Managed shot schedule.Reviewed animator work.

Helped maintain and support a large computer network for the college's Computer Animation program. Responsible for maintaining software and hardware, and answering support requests for students and teachers within the school. Network consisted of several hundred machines including Macs, PCs and Linux stations.

Mfa, Animation

Work showcased on school demo reel and website, 2003 and 2004.

Bs, Studio Art/Graphic Design

Activities and Societies: Created a 3d class in my senior year to teach students basic animation and rigging in Maya.Minored in Computer.