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marzo 2012 – settembre 2014 (2 anni 7 mesi)San Francisco Bay Area, Stati Uniti

Overseeing Disney Interactive’s product development services solution, comprised of over 600 staff-years distributed across 9 locations on 3 continents and organized in the following functions:

Partners: A production group overseeing co-development and licensing projects, responsible for leveraging Disney properties and franchise priorities to deliver high quality entertainment created by external studios and publishers. Games launched in CY13 include My Singing Muppets, Disney Infinity Action!, Ducktales: Scrooge’s Loot and Frozen Free Fall.

Digital Product Services: A post-production organization focused on the porting, conversion and adaptation of content, in order to maximize revenue opportunities by redeploying the company’s product slate to new platforms and international partners.

Internationalization: A project management group responsible for sourcing translated text and localized voice-overs in all foreign languages supported by Disney Interactive’s product slate, ensuring the content matches Disney franchise standards and providing globalization consulting.

Guest Experience: Delivering global customer support, moderation, community management and reporting to the product development verticals at Disney Interactive.

Quality Assurance: A global software testing group providing functional, linguistic, certification, live service and system QA services for console, mobile and open web products, as well as handling first party submissions to all platform partners.

Operational Intelligence: A group charged with defining the Disney Development Framework, disseminating development best practices, Agile production planning, managing the slate and acting as the PMO of Product Ops.

giugno 2011 – febbraio 2012 (9 mesi)San Francisco Bay Area, Stati Uniti

Leading EAi’s product services organization, supporting the company’s worldwide mobile development strategy. The Mosaic portfolio comprises product deployment, platform conversion, device launches, embeds, live ops/maintenance, quality assurance and certification. Mosaic’s development centers are based in 10 different locations on 3 continents, working with 16+ studios.

aprile 2009 – maggio 2011 (2 anni 2 mesi)

Managing EA’s shared services portfolio, consisting of six business units: Quality Assurance, Localization, Certification, Outsourcing, Motion Capture and Mastering; CDS operates in 15 countries across North America, Europe and Asia, supporting 18 development studios. The organization has over 900 permanent staff and an additional 1,200 contracted resources at peak, for a total budget of $110M.

Supported the delivery of EA’s 09/10/11 product slate, consisting of 32 titles deployed across multiple platforms, including Sims 3, Need for Speed, FIFA, Madden, Dragon Age, Rock Band, Dante’s Inferno, etc.

Established a product quality research group, which utilized user experience research methodology in order to provide all EA development teams design evaluations and review score predictions.

Released next-gen motion capture technologies, such as improved face capture techniques and provided shooting/processing for the “Tron Legacy” feature film.

Optimized test processes and centralized the specialized functions, resulting in improved release predictability at the first party certification programs.

agosto 2007 – marzo 2009 (1 anno 8 mesi)

Leading EA’s Quality Assurance organization, enabling the dissemination of test strategies, methodologies and tools among all regions; with an aim towards improving the quality of the testing, increasing operational efficiency and broadening the professional scope of the services provided to the development studios.

febbraio 2006 – agosto 2007 (1 anno 7 mesi)

Overseeing a fully-integrated Studio that developed and launched the mobile games „Medal of Honor” and „Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, a Deployment operation covering the product requirements of the European market and an Enabling Technology group focused on R&D. EA’s Romanian representative office was formed through the acquisition of JAMDAT Mobile, so the role entailed responsibility for scaling operations and aligning processes to the practices of the broader company.

luglio 2005 – febbraio 2006 (8 mesi)

Founded the JAMDAT Mobile studio in Bucharest, Romania, subsequently acquired by Electronic Arts; developed the company to a staff of 160 engineers, artists, producers and testers, including a fully-integrated studio, a Deployment operation covering the product requirements of the European market and an Enabling Technology group focused on R&D and the maintenance of the operator distribution systems. Managed annual budgets in excess of $3M and delivered all production commitments on-time and on-budget.

2003 – luglio 2005 (2 anni)

Responsible for setting up and managing the QA operation in the Los Angeles office; tasked with maintaining uniform test methodologies and procedures across all international branches.

2001 – 2003 (2 anni)

Supervised the QA process for 20+ projects, while managing teams of up to 25 testers.

1999 – 2001 (2 anni)

Coordinated testing for various software products and services designed to present, store and share information distributed via the internet.