Todd Desgagne Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Certified scrum master running ceremonies for multiple pods working in central technologies.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Owned a multi-discipline UI POD and ran all agile ceremonies within my group.People manager for the XD discipline on the game team.Managed the creation of the JIRA database and worked with Production to manage the backlog while determining priorities.Improved UI deliverable completion from 68 to 100% within 6 months.Partnered with other disciplines to identify dependencies and call out risk.Improved processes and implemented new methods of delivering multi faceted / multi disciplined work on time and to the defined quality standards.

Created an operational structure to aid in continual delivery of code from central technologies to game teams. Worked with partners to align schedules and coordinate delivery within tight schedules in a quality pipeline to deliver core technology to the studio.Collaborated with development, engineering and production partners to create clear lines of communication.

Oversaw the creation a studio wide certification process improvement focused quality of delivery to the consumer, while creating studio level expectations around it.Worked with all game team areas to ensure that we had an agreed upon set of global standards that the certification team continues to deliver on.Also enhanced and transitioned a specialized QA Tech group into the Central Technology area of engineering.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Created a complete restructure of Quality Assurance processes, application and delivery.Created JIRA Database architecture and flows for our studio. Owned and worked with leadership to develop best practices within the studio.Took part in studio leadership and marketing meetings where we developed our agile methodologies and to set expectations around delivery of new content.Over 2 years had highest rated title of it's kind on Google Playstore with 4.8/5.0 rating.Less than a dozen non-minor issues escaped to live title over 2 years.

Vancouver, Canada Area

12+ years working at Electronic arts, with the last 7 years being in embedded space working directly with game team leadership around scheduling, budgets, automation planning, project management, best practices, analytics, concept, design and content review.Was the first Quality Designer at EA and helped to develop the overall JFM. Created a 5-point reveiw process for executive and production review of new content.Worked with all game team areas to co-ordinate and act upon quality feedback and managed multiple project feedback structures. Worked using analytics to determine best targets and common factors.Managed groups locally and internationally across multiple studios while mentoring and training staff in many internal disciplines.Contributor on 17 titles/franchises over 12 years:Star Wars, Battlefield, Plants vs. Zombies, Army of Two, Medal of Honor, Need for Speed, Mass Effect, NBA, FIFA, SIMs, Def Jam, Marvel- Placed top in 3 at 2016/17 internal EAC Game Jams