Sam Robinson Email & Phone Number

Culver City, California, Us

Needham, Massachusetts, Us

• Overseeing all production for Game of Thrones live operations, including event/sale planning, tools development, expanding our live ops capabilities, and building yearly roadmaps. My leadership has helped in reducing the overall cost of recurring work by 50% and the time it takes to iterate on parts of our live operations by 60%• Reduced critical client releases errors from 4 to 0 by rebuilding the client release process.• Aligned core technology team's goals and KPIs to the rest of the game studios, enabling for improved performance across the team by running roadmap planning, organization high level planning, and KPI focused exercises with core technology leadership.• Contributed to a 4x increase in feature releases year over year by helping reorganize the studio to smaller, more efficient self sufficient teams.• Helped dramatically reducing the number of critical game breaking bugs found after feature releases by contributing in a reorganization of the QA team. This included supporting promotions for key team members, improving processes to focus individual QA members, and setting standards + expectations around test case writing.

Needham, Massachusetts, Us

• Contributed to double digit quarter over quarter KPI lifts during the first 6 months of Game of Thrones Conquest by managing and prioritizing a feature development team.• Improved feature releases that hit target KPIs by 20% by significantly leveling up the team's utilization of data for decision making,• Significantly improved the team's methodology around A/B testing.• Created double digit early user metrics by optimizing the FTUE and new player experience before and during the final season of Game of Thrones.• Partnered with the user acquisition team to run cross team A/B tests during the final season of Game of Thrones.• Partnered with executive leadership to get a substantial increase in user acquisition budget for the final season of Game of Thrones, substantially boosting the game’s operating income.

• Ran live operations and prioritized development across two 4x strategy games, extending each game’s profitability by over 2 years.• Built sales, events, A/B tests, balanced in game economy and managed overall game inflation.• Improved feature release efficacy by building, implementing, and prioritizing a comprehensive analytics model for 4x strategy games.• Helped shape early art concepts, KPI targets, and market positioning for an unannounced title that we ultimately cancelled due to costs and competitive market landscape.

• Rebuilt and refocused the team's backlog, which allowed the team to ship Paradise Bay to our first Test Market on time.• Responsible for tracking work for a 25-person team consisting of product management, engineers, designers, artists, UI/UX, QA, and audio.• Increased team velocity with scrum ceremonies, reducing the number of unsolicited feature requests, and creating a shared understanding of the team’s priorities.

• Created simple and effective processes for releasing clients. The methodology was simple and effective enough to remove the need for the role.• Produced and release Trade Nations Holiday, finishing the project in 3 months and hitting critical timing for the project.• Produced a central technology team and supported improving internal deployment technology.

Shipped: Shadowslayer: Dawn of the Light ForgeOptimized 2D asset creation pipeline doubling the amount of content available at game launch.

Games worked on: Battle Nations, Trade Nations, Metal Storm Online, Metal Storm Aces.Responsibilities: Executing and writing test cases.

Project: Death Tanks XBLAResponsibilities: Test Case writing and execution, designing and balancing major updates for the game.Project: Lord of the Ring: War In the NorthResponsibilities:Tools Testing - Creating details test documentation around an internally developed set of tools. Build Verification Testing - Test case writing and execution of test cases for XBox, Playtest and PC.Project: Guardians of Middle EarthResponsibilities: Internal PvP testing, prioritization of issues related to running test cases, automating internal test builds and their deployment.