Microsoft : Turn 10 Studios

Producer 2

Forza: AAA Games

Production Management

I'm working with very talend teams who are commited to produce world's best racing game. I'm working as a producer 2 with Engineering, Designing, Environments,Lighting,VFX,Procedural,Characters/Animation,Cinamatics,Tech Art teams, external, internal patners and supproting 35+ team stakeholders.Closely working with Executives, Directors, Supervisors,Producers,Leads,Artists,Designers from development to delivery Phases. Reporting Executive leadership about Project progress. Communicating with vendors, internal and external cross functional teams including Engineering,Rendering,Designing,Concept,Look Dev,Tool & Tech Art,Quality(QA),Car,Audio, Licencing,Marketing,Publishing,Media.

Engineering:

Doing quater and sprint planning with stakeholders to deliver milestones with high quality from development to delivery.
Priortizing, Creating, tracking tasks on Jira and Shotgrid.
Identifying and clearly communicating road blockers to internal and external stakeholders.
Triaging bugs,build issues and dependencies with leads and cross functional teams.
Scheduling meetings and documenting all notes and communicating clearly to all stakeholders.
Established clear communication channels and process with cross functional teams including content,Design,Concept, Tool & Tech Art,Rendering,Audio,Car,QA and working as a point of contact for team communication.

Environments:

Planning and Manageging 19+ team stakeholders. Doing quater and sprint planning and creating schedule to deliver milestones with high quality from development to delivery.
Priortizing, Creating, assigning, tracking tasks on Jira and Shotgrid.
Identifying and clearly communicating road blockers to internal and external stakeholders.
Scheduling Art Director reviews and documenting and communicating all art director feedbacks to internal team.
Triaging bugs,build issues and dependencies with leads and cross functional teams.
Closley working with vendors for assets management. Tracking and setting up project on ShotGrid.
Helping new hires.
Working closley with executive leadership team to deliver milestones with high quality within budget and timeline with available resources.
Scheduling meetings and documenting all notes and communicating clearly to all stakeholders.
Established clear communication channels and process with cross functional teams including Designe,Concept,Engineering, Tool & Tech Art,Rendering,Audio,Car,QA and working as a point of contact for team communication.

Lighting:

Manageging 4+ team stakeholders.Creating schedule and plans for quaters and sprints to deliver milestones with high quality.
Closely working with supervisor and team to prioritize task and making sure team has all the information to complete task and deliver on time. Creating, assigning, tracking tasks.
Sending agenda and scheduling Art Director review meetings and other meetings, Documenting all the info and updating on confluence, OneNote and Jira.
Improved Validation process and developed communication process with cross functional teams including Environment, Rendering, Engineering,Car, QA,Tool & Tech Art,Concept,Media, teams.
Setup Lighting project on Shotgrid to improve overall project structure.
Improved communication process with Vendors and doing planning and tracking lighting prop assets,status and task assigned to the vendors.
Sending lighting track packs to the Art Directors to get approval.
Triaging bugs,build issues and dependencies with leads and cross functional teams.
Identifying and clearly communicating road blockers to internal and external stakeholders.

VFX:

Manageging 2+ team stakeholders.Creating quater and sprint plans and schedule to deliver milestones with high quality.
Working with Directors to deliver VFX from concept to final delivery.
Priortising,creating, assigning, tracking VFX tasks with effective time management skill.
Requesting Smoke tests for VFX assets to QA team to validate and implement core gameplay features.
Pro-actively working on road blockers and making sure cross communication ocurs with internal and external teams including Environment, Lighting, Enginnering, Tool & Tech Art, Cinematics, Rendering, Procedural teams.
Makeing sure all Art Director reviews are applied and validated.

Characters/Animation:

Creating Plans and Manageging 5+ team stakeholders. Doing quater and sprint planning and creating schedule to deliver milestones with high quality.
Setting up project pipline on shotgrid Microsoft internal software.
Creating, priortising, assigning, tracking initiatives and tasks for Character and Animation topics.
Established clear communication channels and process for mutual goals,bugs and priorities with cross functional teams including Designe,Concept,Cinematics,Environments, Engineering, Tool & Tech Art,Rendering,Audio,Car,QA and working as a point of contact for team communication.
Working closly with Director, Supervisor,Lead and Artists to meet tight deadline.
Requesting Smoke tests for Characters and Animation assets to QA team to validate and implement core gameplay features.

Procedural:

Manageging 3+ team stakeholders. Doing quater and sprint planning and creating schedule to deliver milestones with high quality.
Creating, priortising, assigning, tracking Initiatives PBIs and tasks.
Triaging bugs,build issues and dependencies with leads and cross functional teams.
Identifying and clearly communicating road blockers to internal and external stakeholders.
Communicating activly content teams requests to Procedural team.

Cinematics:

Manageging 4+ team stakeholders. Doing quater and sprint planning and creating schedule to deliver milestones with high quality.
Restructuring setting up Cenemetics features on Shotgids as well on Microsoft internal software.
Creating, priortising, assigning, tracking tasks, Bugs.
Collaborating with internal and external teams to scope, track common goals and blockers including Mixmaster,Audio, designing, environments, characters, Vangaurds.

Tech Art:

Manageging 6+ team stakeholders. Doing quater and sprint planning and creating schedule to deliver milestones with high quality.
Creating, priortising, assigning, tracking tasks
Clearly communicating tool request to the team and scoping goals with cross functional teams.
Troubleshooting animation,building and deploying the runtime client topics with crossfunctional teams.

Concept:

Managed 4+ team stakeholders. Did quater and sprint planning and created schedule to deliver milestones with high quality.
Created, priortised, assigned, tracked initiatives, PBIs and tasks.
Clearly communicated valuable info to the team.

Look Development:

Managed 4+ team stakeholders. Did quater and sprint planning and created schedule to deliver milestones with high quality.
Created, priortised, assigned,and tracked initiatives, PBIs and tasks.
Clearly communicated with cross- functional teams.