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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Lead a multidisciplinary team of 20+ designers, engineers, animators, and tech artists to create a wide range of features, systems, non-playable characters, quests, cinematics, and dev tools for the launch of Palia, a genre defining cozy MMO simulation cross platform game.- Coordinated with internal teams and stakeholders to align on project goals and requirements. - Acted as a liaison between development teams and upper management, providing regular updates and reports on project status and team OKRs.- Facilitated scrum production method for the team on a bi-weekly cadence and hosted all team rituals including stand ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, playtests, and team reviews. - Responsible for maintaining the team’s product roadmap as well as organizing and refining the backlog.- Oversaw full cycle production on new game features and content including establishing goals, identifying product requirements, approval procurement, scoping and estimation, work breakdown, cross team collaboration, monitoring and controlling, and quality assurance. - Continuously improved the team's work system to streamline workflows and provide transparency on monitoring project status through setting up automation and push notifications with Slack, Jira, and various 3rd party tools.

Culver City, California, Us

Responsible for the entire art production for Marvel Strike Force, a live role playing mobile game with a 5-6 week release cadence, to create the best possible content output and quality without compromising overall team health and happiness. - Process art requests from internal teams including the dev teams, live operations, marketing, and community management. - Schedule and task all art production for a team of 20+ members. - Prioritize and monitor the entire scope of work against the team’s capacity to ensure critical items are delivered on time while mitigating team burnout and crunch.- Communication management between Marvel Games and the dev team for 2D and 3D artwork for character key art and character costumes art production. -Accountable for setting expectations, sending deliveries, receiving feedback, resolving conflicts, and routing all assets for official Marvel Games approval through their proprietary system. - Continuously improving on process and infrastructure by addressing pain points surfaced in recurring retrospective meetings, either directly or by delegating and following up on action items assigned to team leads. - Set up and scaled external art development with multiple vendors for character modeling, skinning, and rigging in addition to marketing key art outsourcing.

Pasadena, California, Us

Producing high quality digital artwork for AAA clients in the entertainment industry (Microsoft, Universal, Sony, Riot Games, Activision Blizzard, FoxNext, etc.) by curating and leading teams built to maximize project success.- Determine scope, create schedule, and cost estimates for projects- Recruiting and hiring for all projects- Draft and manage all project documentation including contracts, NDA's, W9, etc.- Responsible for controlling schedule and quality assurance of artwork- Invoice processing- IT support- HR support- Administrative duties- Concept and execution of marketing campaigns

Created custom mobile games and web-based applications that seamlessly tie into the marketing campaigns for high-profile brands and licensed properties (Intel, Nintendo, SXSW Festival, etc.). - Design Document Development and Scope Management- Monitoring and Tracking of Project Deliveries- Client Relationship Management- Outsource Team Management- Quality Assurance Testing- Asset Management

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Developed tailored 2D and 3D art production pipelines for clients based on their project requirements, schedule, and budget. (The Workshop, Playdom, BigFish Games, etc.)- Development of style guides and schedules- Monitoring and tracking art production pipeline- Facilitating feedback between client and development team- Maintaining the quality and consistency of all artwork- Client approvals on project deliverie

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Created interactive licensed toy products by working with internal teams, external software and hardware developers, and licensors (SingScene, Disney Princess: Fairy Tale Adventure, Nintendo National Pokédex).- Developing design documents and scope management.- Managing and coordinate multiple external teams to execute on all project goals and requirements.- Prioritizing features within limiting hardware and software constraints.- Licensor approval on project deliveries.- Quality Assurance Testing

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Produced and published video games based on licensed movie properties to tie along with their theatrical releases (Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Tale of Despereaux, Where the Wild Things Are).- Manage relationship with licensors and acquire approval on project deliveries- Develop and maintain Design Docuements- Asset Management- Quality assurance- Third party approvals from Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony

Eden Prairie, Mn, Us

Worked directly with software developers to polish their games to cater to the casual games market (Runes of Avalon, Jewels of Cleopatra, Hoyle Miami Software).- Managed change requests between Encore and game developers.- Created design documents.- Reported and verified bugs.- Resolved communication breakdowns with foreign developers by implementing an organized change request procedure and documentation.

London, Greater London, Gb

Localization and quality assurance testing with proprietary bug tracking software (Full Metal Alchemist, Kingdom Hearts 2, Radiata Stories, Valkyrie Profile).