ACtivities
Milestone Driven Development
Conducted third-party development team throughout Preproduction, monitored progress, and prioritized feature sets and prototyping efforts across several milestones. Organized milestone review process and led communication efforts, remote and on-site, across multiple teams to coordinate tasks needed for milestone completion.
Quality Ownership
Provided feedback on progress for numerous game features and worked with design team to improve single and multiplayer features. Established regular playtests with publishing/marketing stakeholders to aid in progress awareness and facilitate feedback between external groups.
Tactical Execution
Established direction and tactical planning for cross-team/cross-studio technical efforts, platform integration, and analytics. Created products and submitted applications within first party platforms to enable the development team to deploy and test project builds.
Project Reporting & Approvals
Provided regular reporting on project status against milestone and sprint (agile development) deadlines. Drove go/no-go process for milestone approvals. Approved company spend for milestone payments based on milestone progress and in accordance with contractual obligations.
PAST WORK
Asynchronous Multiplayer Design
Provided a deep dive into social reciprocity models in video games to aid in the development of Fuser’s social Events system. The dive explored social affirmation & validation, social interactive entertainment, impersonal judgement, community construct, and helping hand models. Recommendations in the analysis included a concept similar to asynchronous mobile design challenge games (Design Home, Covet Fashion) that became the basis for Fuser’s Events.
Pre-Production Gate Review
Worked with the Chief Development Officer to establish gate requirements, including necessary deliverables (assets & documentation) and depth of prototype, for Pre-Production gate. Facilitated communication between multiple teams and stakeholders to engage in full technical, design, production, and creative review for the product. Managed onsite schedule to present, deliver feedback, and address questions, and receive conclusions (go/no-go) for the Pre-Production stage.
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