Resume

* Strategically coordinated interdependent development roadmaps for a game engine, toolset, and interactive experience, successfully enabling a 12-person team at Ubiquity6 to simultaneously advance 3 interdependent projects on a very aggressive timeline while avoiding resource conflicts. * Championed automated testing initiative at EA Mobile, collaborating with Technical Directors across multiple business units, halving headcount and saving $56k per month while maintaining quality standards. * Used data analysis to translate EA’s unreleased new-IP sports franchise mobile game’s Story Points to duration estimates, increasing 6-month milestone prediction accuracy from ±8 weeks to ±2 weeks. * Identified a critical knowledge gap and morale risks across a demoralized team at EA. I initiated a Unity Game Jam to create a focused training intensive relevant to the new project they would be starting on while reactivating the team’s energy. The positive reaction and efficacy of this program was apparent to all, and it became a formal part of the studio’s project kick-off process.

* Development Team sizes managed: Scaled the smallest 11 person team up to 30 for Fogbank, and co-managed as many as 110 cross-functional developers at Kabam. Typical team sizes directly under my oversight range from 35-50 cross-functional developers. * Managed, mentored, and advocated for up to 11 direct reports, including managers, across North America and Europe while at EA. Accomplished improved performance, team satisfaction scores, staff retention, and successfully advocated for the promotion of several team members from mid-level to senior staff. * Synchronized development across two studios and four business units; managing internal and external senior leadership, as well as celebrity relationships. * At Fogbank, built and mentored a 5-person program management team and led a 30-person cross-functional team for game, story-writing tool, and engine development. * Designed and implemented a talent identification program to assess and train high-potential employees for management roles, enhancing the internal leadership pipeline during a sustained hiring freeze at EA.

* Routinely orchestrated cross-functional requirements sessions between design, engineering, and business stakeholders, resulting in clear, actionable technical specifications across all roles and companies. Prepared various presentations for different audiences to ensure vision, requirements, and outcomes were clear and understood by all parties. * At Kabam, reduced developer meeting time by three hours per sprint by introducing efficiencies sourced from async communication practices. * Evangelized Confluence and documentation maintenance best practices at Ubiquity6, reducing redundant development and centralizing current project documents for the 60+ person Augmented Reality studio. * Meaningfully improved collaboration between the previously adversarial development and quality verification teams at EA by building consensus between departments; converting a tense relationship into a productive partnership.

* Pitched and led a VP-sponsored Agile adoption for The Sims team (130+ people) to successfully address inefficiencies and expose previously-hidden constraints and dependencies. * At EA Mobile, developed complex, evolving process frameworks for stage-specific software development—from prototype to live services—that responded to the development lifecycle, for a 115-person remote studio across two cross-functional core teams. * Modernized project tracking at EA, created a real-time project status view for team and stakeholders, and implemented dashboards that reduced reporting time from days to hours (80% reduction). * Implemented a dual-roadmap system on an EA Mobile title that balanced short term deliverables and business objectives with long-term software development, successfully minimized setbacks and kept both initiatives on track, increasing creative sprint completion rates by 40%. * Instituted Jira and Agile at ILMxLab, improved engineering sprint completion rates to 85%+ and helped the team overcome 2-month deadline delays.

* Overcame development challenges by working with the EA Technical Director a to address technical debt while balancing new feature development, dedicating 20% sprint capacity to technical debt and 10% to bug fixes, allowing the team to reliably accelerate long development after achieving stability and performance metrics. * While at ILMxLab, made critical tradeoff decisions on R&D features, such as foot tracking vs hand tracking, successfully balancing user experience against product innovation. * Participated in architectural decision discussions at EA, recommending Unity over continued use of the proprietary engine, weighing the long-term scalability of the project against short-term knowledge gaps. * At Kabam, partnered with technical artists, rendering engineers and full-stack engineers to design and iterate rendering pipeline and bespoke Unity particle system, ensuring assets achieved both performance and visual fidelity goals.

* Granted Patents for Innovative Usability Features: 20190168112 | 10946268 | 10143916. * Conceptualized, researched, designed, built, and soft launched the prototype of a custom social management app - Clik. * Defined scope of work, negotiated contracts for, and managed relationships with outsourced vendors for Aeria Games, Kabam, and Fogbank. At EA, successfully put together a business case for increased PgM headcount during a restricted hiring period. * As a Product Manager at Kabam, unlocked counterintuitive revenue strategies and implemented data-driven monetization features in Kingdoms of Camelot, directly resulting in 27% revenue increase. * Evangelized improved user onboarding systems and successfully improved user adoption by 11% by implementing a new tutorial strategy for display.land at Ubiquity6. * Defined change management procedures at Ubiquity6 for product pivot from a computer vision project to a consumer-targeted game project.