Manager, First Party Operations

Responsible for managing the age rating certification process for Warner Bros. game titles. Coordinate global ratings submission scheduling within development, production, marketing, and operations time frames.Forecast all global rating submission timelines and monitor changes in key milestone dates in order to meet First-Party and Printing submission timelines.Work directly with cross-functional teams to ensure that all in-game pertinent content (violence, language, suggestive themes, etc.) are identified, disclosed and compliant with 12 regional age rating organizations.Prepare examination materials for each rating board by centralizing all in-game assets and supplemental materials.Draft product summaries, process code submission, record / edit video footage as well as troubleshoot any technical inquiries including software installation, stability issues and content navigation.Work closely with North American and European Operations on all age rating compliances, advertising guidelines as well as securing licenses for print assembly and code certification.Correspond with international distribution partners on all age rating activity for emerging game markets including Brazil, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and South Africa.Establish trust, insight and communication with 12 distinct age rating organizations while providing stakeholders with a clear level of visibility regarding each rating organization's structure, requirements and developments

Car QA for Forza Motorsports 5Technical testing of raw assets of cars using 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, proprietary in-house tool sets, as well as in-game testing. Ensure technical specifications are met for the raw model asset to interface with the game engine properly in accordance with performance and technical specifications set by art and design teams are met.Verification of model geometry and texture accuracy and quality bar are met properly using matched reference photo-shoots.Working closely with outsourced vendors and in-house art team to ensure that all internal quality and accuracy goals are met appropriately and in a timely fashion.Ensuring that cars have all notable features and are approved with manufacturer licensing without issue.

First Party Submissions Specialist @ WBG is responsible for the following:- Concept, Compliance and other Code Submissions to Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. Disc Code, Digital, DLC, Patch/TU, Themes, Avatars, Trailers, etc.- Managing and providing reports on products in approvals- Code Requests- Marketing Asset Submissions (Metadata - Art assets, marketing copy, etc)- Point of Contact for Publisher Relations- Management of Development requests to First Party groups

I specialized in first party compliance testing. Nintendo Lotcheck, Microsoft TCRs, FTCs, and BVTs, Sony TRCs testing. Extremely detailed knowledge and interpretation of all compliance guidelines. I personally created and maintained our companies' certification compliance test passes which were used by a team of 20+ employees every day for their work ensuring our titles followed the correct compliance standards set fourth by first party ensuring one time passes through final certification.

I tested multi-player functionality on Project Gotham Racing 4. Ad-Hoc testing, Test case running, bug logging, leaderboard testing, trueskill ranking testing, and network TCR compliance testing.