Irvine, California, United States
Project: The Outer World 2 RPG Gameplay Systems Producer and Animation Producer The Outer World 2. Created both milestone and long term schedules based on content team needs, system priorities, and resource constraints. By coordinating and scheduling with other producers and directors the team was better able to deliver project goals and communicate issues earlier in the development pipelines. Managed multiple content focused systems initiatives. This included the day to day issue tracking and roadblock resolution for team members consisting of: gameplay programming, area designers, artists, animators, audio, and quality assurance. Created animation schedule and managed pipelines for rigging, skinning, and animating both first and third person in game content. Brainstorm and helped define goals for systems strike teams alongside the systems director. Outlining specific steps to achieve milestone goals helped to drive initiatives to more incrementally complete states. Project: Core Tools Group Producer for the Core Tools Group at Obsidian Entertainment. Responsible for the day to day task management, roadblock resolution, and coordination of 10 Tools engineers focused on the development of technology leveraged by game teams for content development. Owned the development roadmap and coordination of Tools team resources based on major milestones and company goals from our dependent teams. This included ongoing cross team technology initiatives, focused on unifying technology approaches across game teams and improving workflows for sharing new development technology.
Work closely with a team of engineers, designers and testers on the development of web applications and websites for Verys clients. Coordinate development in an Agile work environment with both internal and external developers, along with managing key client stakeholders to deliver quality products that solve the business and technological goals. • Manage the overall development lifecycle of new project and products within the Verys portfolio, from concept to post-production with team leads and key stakeholders. • Act as a primary point of contact and relationship manager for the client, aligning development efforts across multiple development teams to successfully release new products and features on time and within budget. • Coordinate, track, and manage the activities of project team members to ensure that project tasks are completed on time, within scope, and at acceptable quality • Provide motivation and direction to ensure that project goals, objectives, milestones, and deliverables are clearly communicated and achieved. • Gather, document, and organize business, functional, and any creative requirements for new projects from project stakeholders. • Gather estimates from resources and create project documentation. • Follow change management process to capture change requests, communicate impact, request stakeholder decisions, and execute changes if applicable. • Work with company executives and other managers to plan effective resource utilization.
Create and manage meeting schedules for Senior Producer and production team. Document action items and agreements during meetings, and provide meeting minutes. Assist with identifying, and eliminating road blocks for development team. Work with our development team to ensure that all agreements, and objectives, are met and communicated to other teams. Liaise with different departments to gather information on current projects, and setup meetings as needed.
Maintained constant CCTV surveillance to monitor for theft and safety issues. Greeted customers both entering and exiting the store to ensure that assistance was present if needed. Conducted surveys of customers to address any issues that occur. Completed daily, weekly, and monthly audits of store systems and security. Maintained meticulous records for submission into evidence for police reports.