Primary Role: Engineering Manager

I took on multiple roles for the team. I joined in pre-production as the Engineering Manager with one developer on the team. From there, I hired out the interaction development team and managed our remote members in Japan and Malaysia as well. I sourced, interviewed, and hired my development team, producers, and project managers at all stages from evaluating team needs, job description authoring, interviewing and assessment, onboarding, and job success.

I served as the main project technical leadership running the team responsible for building all user activity features including: Season Pass functionality and reward management; Bidding; Leaderboards; Earning, spending, and purchasing in-game currency; Avatar builder and color swapping customization; Integration of game designer balancing CMS; Currency spend rewards (Gatcha); and more.

My team scoped, built, and helped design complex quick time event interactions in the user overlay, including rapidly developing prototypes such as rhythm tapper activities, POCs (proof-of-concept apps) for partner demo, acceptance, and tight feedback loops.

My team developed the first investigation and mobile releases to the app stores as well as new and emerging streaming technologies. I wrote, evaluated, and delivered product proposals for large scale systems, mobile app delivery pipeline, CMS new third-party software integrations for features such as user chat and mobile update asset delivery (PAD/ODR), and others.

I ran the QA process and managed the QA effort on our project, including research into the requirements and technical needs for load balancing and testing. I conducted my own hands-on testing of the gameplay and reported numerous bugs, maintained the tracker, and coordinated status and priority of the fixes with our co-dev QA team and our internal QA developers. I also created and managed the technical debt log for the project and collaborated with producers on the priority and scheduling of technical debt.

Additional duties included the overseeing of integration with the Genvid streaming SDK, Amazon IVS implementation, evaluating infrastructure requirements and setup, researching and proposing large-scale third party integrations for analytics tracking, game designer balancing system, chat and community moderation tools, and more.

Secondary Roles: Producer, Project Management

During almost the first year on the project, our project didn't have a dedicated producer and project manager so I stepped in to help fulfill those duties. I coordinated day-to-day AGILE ceremonies including technical syncs, scrums, standups, sprint planning, refinement, retros, status updates, and sprint release documentation. I cross-managed product teams internally and externally filling in on production and project management to drive planning, roadmapping, estimating developer efforts, scoping and developing product requirements, priorities, cross-team communication, collaboration between internal and external teams, and managing the entire game lifecycle. I worked directly with executive stakeholders and creative directors on product ideation, UI/UX, and full scoping of new features.

During pre-production, I coordinated, scheduled, and ran the producer and project manager workshop onsite in LA. I trained our internal and co-dev partners, as well as the narrative partners, in best-practices, JIRA and Confluence use, roadmapping, and setting Milestones. I coordinated the efforts on the first project roadmap, milestones, and vertical slice deliveries.

Additional requirements was setting and delivering team goals, coordinating with co-dev partners daily and weekly, project requirements review, scoping, and documenting.