This role has me placed at 343 Industries and has afforded me the learning opportunity to work from Pre-production through to live game maintenance. Full job description below:• Facilitate communication with external development partners on daily production issues and help make sure that development tasks don't fall through the cracks.• Facilitate communication with key internal stakeholders to distribute builds for review, capture creative and technical feedback, and present feedback to developers and project producers.• Document and track upcoming deliverables from internal and external team members.• Coordinate with internal parties to review and approve deliverables from internal team members and from external partners.• Work with internal and external partners and team members to resolve work stopping issues, hardware needs, tools, documentation, access to necessary resources, etc.• Document current features for existing products and identify issues, bugs, and concerns based on personal experience (testing), input from the test team, and input from the community.• Write specs for new features & features that need improvement.• Assist Xbox and 343 teams to maintain a predictable flighting program for our products in development.• Localization support for products in development.• Provide weekly status in writing for their area of responsibilities.• Supporting role in managing project budgets; making cost-effective decisions to stay within budgetary expectations from the business.• Negotiate contracts and agreements with external vendors and partners.• Identify and mitigate project risks and issues that are primarily found with external partner development.• Fosters collaboration and effective communication across team members• Provides clear direction and motivation to external and internal team members.• Conduct regular meetings and reviews to ensure project goals are met.

On-site at 343 Industries.My job is pretty much a little bit of marketing, a little bit of technical writing, and a whole lot of being a technical PM. My clients are the players, my devs are my colleagues, and I do all I can to bring the ideas from the community to our teams to make them realities. I work with some amazingly talented folks and help pen articles around game updates, the Seasonal Sitrep series for each new MCC Season, Weekly Dev Updates, Monthly Development Blogs, Sentiment Decks, work with telemetry data, BI reports, analytics, and any other buzz word technology you want me

Position was on-site at 343 Industries.Lead STE3 for Campaign, Multiplayer, and DLC Leaders. Also maintained automation testing. Developed a strategy of working with the community to build sustainment updates and helped develop and deploy them for Halo Wars 2. This involved analysis of various data analytics and investigations. Helped task remote test teams, wrote test cases, triaged issues, and developed and distributed standing reports as needed for daily or weekly assesment needs based on go-to-market timing.

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Associate Producer for Marketing and QA.

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