Studios General Manager at XGS* The Initiative* Undead Labs* Emerging Programs

As the COO and President of Bad Robot Games, I oversaw the strategy, operations, and execution of the games division, which collaborated with Bad Robot Productions to create original and immersive games for all platforms.

Founded and grew Squanch from a zero-employee startup to a thriving independent game developer. Led all aspects of the business and managed a distributed studio.Key Responsibilities:Developed and communicated the studio's strategy and visionAdapted Hollywood entertainment concepts into a game studio and roadmapManaged strategic partnerships, sales relationships, and contractsDirected the initial publishing and marketing strategiesFostered an inclusive culture within the studioBuilt and led the senior management teamHired and coached key leadershipManaged capital allocation aligned with the studio's visionLed fundraising efforts, securing seed and project fundingOversaw the studio's budget and financial team developmentCreated and maintained the long-term financial modelDirected HR operations, including recruitment, performance management, and compensation strategyChaired annual board meetings, presenting financial summaries, staffing projections, risk assessments, and long-term planning

Executive ProducerPublishing: Built the publishing organization and processes from the ground-up.Key skills: Publishing strategy, drove alignment of requirements out of ambiguity. Developed publishing schedule and timelines. Built web production and localization production teams. The bridge for the gaps between development, business intelligence, analytics, operations, player and online services, creative services, marketing, PR, and community.Fortnite: Developed from inception with core leads team. Grew team from 10 to 110, directly managed 12.Key skills: Brand identity and pillars creation, owner of go to market strategy and strategic and development roadmap and priorities. Developed publishing milestones, contributed to marketing, web, and community plans in the ‘new world order.’ Drove all production processes and methodology for building the schedule and timelines.Lead ProducerBulletstorm: Developed from inception alongside team in Poland (People Can Fly) to deliver on three platforms and 13 languages on-budget and on-time.Key skills: Brought clarity to the pre-production phase and experience and Epic knowledge to an inexperienced team. Used MS Project to develop and execute the entire schedule waterfall. Worked with owners across eight studios to keep communication flowing. Flew back and forth to Poland. A lot. Managed a team of four producers. Was the primary point of contact for communication with our publisher, worked directly with marketing and community to develop the brand.ProducerGears of War 3 & 2: Key

Concurrently working as a coach at Crossfit Invoke in Downtown Raleigh.

On-site (Epic) Test LeadGears of War 1: Key skills: Got a lot of stuff done on an impossible project. Built a QA staff at Epic where none existed. Developed a build process where none existed.SDETVanguard: Saga of Heroes: Automation engineer and billing lead. Used C# to write scripts for testing and bug-logging. Owned all itemization and billing process.Dungeon Siege 2 and Jade Empire: UX Test lead. Worked with User Experience team to develop surveys, in-game implementation of hooks, and data/analytics to support evidence of how we needed to better build our games and respond to feedback.

Experience includes recruitment for web development and games development candidates, negotiation of salaries, closing deals, interviewing/scheduling/conducting meetings, managing contacts, motivating the team to achieve goals, creative marketing of positions.Recognition:Record set for the most number of employees recruited in one monthBest practices closerMultiple awards for "recruiter of the month"