Was taken on board at Trickstar as Project Manager to manage a group of 10 fellow students who would be guided in creating 3 working prototype games over a 3 month period whilst at Trickstar.

Ignition Studios is a small studio based in Melbourne and was started up by myself and another Qantm college graduate. The studio focuses on creating exciting, innovative and imaginative entertainment through games and applications for mobile and electronic platforms. Our slogan... "Igniting your passion for games"

Key Strengths:
 Excellent communication, and negotiation, skills gained while working closely with the public for several years, either face to face, over the phone or via written correspondence
 Enthusiasm, passion and a lust for life that helps me connect and build strong relationships with internal and external team members and clients
 High level of proficiency in using Excel, Word & various other software packages
 Ridiculously organised with strong planning and creative problem solving skills
 Adaptable, flexible and determined would describe my approach to work with the added bonus of high attention to detail
 Demonstrated ability to work as integral member of team or autonomously to achieve stated objectives

Experience:
• Partnered with project Producer to assist in the complete end to end production and ongoing maintenance of a mobile title, which included worldwide launch of title updates as well as continued maintenance for the live service
• Worked closely with company director to deliver the project on an on-going basis
• Identified and continued to update supporting documentation, and processes, for the complete end to end development of the project, including creating and maintaining project schedules, tracking project budgets, and maintaining and submitting spreadsheets for team member hours
• Created and continually updated high level development schedules
• Interfaced and managed relationships between departments within EA including Marketing, Sales, QA, Tech Teams, Distribution, Localisation, Finance, Legal, Producers, Directors and other key stake holders
• Prioritised the improvement of existing working relationships with internal and external team members by understanding their ambitions and motivations and worked on ways to motivate, recognise and reward internal and external team members
• Implemented ways to improve work environment awareness of international team members to various internal teams and undertook foreign language studies to facilitate this task
• Identified project risks, instigated and lead mitigation and contingency plans when risks arose
• Generated up to date status reports and tracking documentation for Producers, Directors and other key stakeholders
• Sought interesting ways to reward and recognise team members efforts by organising various events and fun activities