Mark B. Email & Phone Number

Auckland, NZ

Bellevue, Washington, US

Menlo Park, CA, US

I am working on the Meta, Reality Labs - Avatars team, helping you look the way you want.:)

Seattle, WA, US

I worked as one of the TPMs for the cross-team development of beautiful new detail pages on Amazon.com for New World and Lost Ark.

Seattle, WA, US

- Lead a team of 12 junior to senior programmers in creating first to market “Light House” Alexa skills for companies including, Uber, Pizza Hut, Open Table, and Allrecipes. Guided team in best practices for voice-first experiences in a new multi-modal environment with Echo Show.- Founding leader of the Alexa Games team, producer for ~35 people, to create.

Seattle, WA, US

- Managed a technology group of 14 programmers creating backend technology for two titles, including client patching, 3D world generation, and auto crash reporting initiatives (for which I was a co-inventor on a registered patent).- Producer for Combat feature team including management & scheduling of programmers, designers, animators, visual effects.

Hunt Valley, Maryland, US

- Responsible for production of the entire game engineering (client and server) team through and post ESO launch.- Managed UI team of designers, artists, programmers and QA for all elements of the User Interface, including add-ons.- Producer of QA Engineering team, lead team to support and promote QA tools for large scale stress testing of many core.

SG

- Senior Producer responsible for multi-year production of all features of the Otherland MMO.- Producer for all production groups (~70 people) including client & server programming, design, animation, character, environment, visual effects, audio and quality assurance.- Managed and determined overall feature set in conjunction with feedback from other.

MY

• Production Director of 50+ staff including programmers, artists, designers, audio engineer, production staff and 5 directors.
• Responsible for every aspect of production for all titles in development, including scheduling, asset tracking, client relations, build procedures, and morale & discipline.
• Produced and shipped 2 Nintendo DS titles for iWin: Jojo’s Fashion Show (published by Ubisoft) and Quest Trio (published by many various publishers).
• Produced and shipped various Flash up-sells and web games for iWin, Reflexive and 2DPlay.

MY

Running all production for GameBrains in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Los Gatos, CA, US

• Enable Design and Art to continue working through buggy development of tools via extensive problem solving.
• Facilitate resolution of issues in design, art and software.
• Track completion of art and design assets for multiple game “zones”.
• Create and maintain schedule for different development teams of MMO title.
• Compile and create lists of assets for outsourcing.
• Managed teams of 20 artists, 12 designers and 12 programmers.

US

• Supervise outsourced team of 16 in development of Software Delivery, as well as onsite team of six people, four developers and two testers for Handheld Solutions.
• Develop and direct development of schedules, Functional Specifications, Test Plans, Test Case Outlines, Test Cases and UI design.
• Oversee development of multiple concurrent products from Product Requirements stage through development and final testing for release of high quality software.
• Manage development of Inventory and Software Delivery solutions for handheld devices including Pocket PC, Palm, and RIM (C++ and Java).
• Prioritize and approve bug fixes, report status and manage relationships with other groups including Documentation, Support, Program Management, and upper Management.
• Manage offsite developers as well as outsourced development of solutions and documentation.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Created Test Plan, Test Schedule and Staffing Plan for 2 year project.
• Oversaw test efforts of all areas of the Xbox title The Unseen.
• Communicated with 3rd party developer, tracked, regressed and forecasted bug activity.
• Managed Test Team towards successful completion of project.
• Maintained and expanded Studio Test Team to support business needs.
• Maximized Team growth and skill development for increasing team scope.

• Oversaw the testing efforts of up to 3 people testing multiple components of the Client/Server software SMS. Areas of leadership responsibility included: Network Discovery, Network Trace, and SNMP.
• Wrote, assigned, and regressed bugs.
• Wrote and ran test cases.

• Localized training software for NETG.
• Ensured that localized (German) strings were correct and accurate.
• Added images of German software to the training program.
• Fixed problems with training software links and other code problems.