derek staley

* Dedicated Project Manager for mobile properties of company’s largest international client * Lead a team of developers and QA, releasing over 500 hours of work to production each month * Work closely with multiple client teams, located in Brazil, on all aspects of the relationship, including existing properties, new projects, and future plans * Led the kickoff, development, and launch of company’s first international travel site * Using JIRA, Google Docs, and other tools, independently manage all aspects of projects including developer tasking, backlog management, and sprint planning * Reporting to the COO and VP of Product, regularly provide updates directly to executive team on project status, timelines, budget, and risks * Work with other teams including UX, Analytics, and Optimization to improve conversion, average order value, and retention

* TOME: Immortal Arena * Establish the short term and long term roadmap for KIXEYE’s largest project, TOME Immortal Arena * Act as Product owner, providing specs and acceptance criteria, and working with the team to ensure features are fully understood and implemented as planned * Provide updates to executive team as project moved from early development stages to beta * Own the quality of the product, providing final sign off on features as they are completed * Help oversee a team of 50+ members including engineering, QA, art, tech art, and UI/UX * Work closely with game design team on creation, testing, and development of new features * Obtained Certified Scrum Product Owner Certification * Backyard Monsters * Act as Associate Product and Project manager on a live game title * Oversee the development, implementation, and release of major content features * Monitor game performance, including MAU, DAU, Stickiness, Retention, and ARPDAU * Provide informed estimates to executives on revenue and release dates

* ● Project manager for Mobile Apps, Living Room Apps, and Dev Ops teams, driving the launch of a new video platform (VRV) on 4 clients - iOS, Android, XBox1, and PS4 * ● Led all mentioned VRV clients to launch by our target dates. * ● Created tools and processes for finding estimates based on real data, which was implemented across multiple teams leading up to VRV launch * ● Created and maintained dashboards to visualize launch critical items and blockers, used by individual teams and the executive team * ● Provide regular reports to executive team, detailing timelines, risks, cross team dependencies, and proposed solutions. * ● Work with tech leadership to develop and implement live deployment processes across all backend services * ● JIRA administrator across all projects in the company

* ● Project Manager for multiple engineering teams totaling approximately 20 engineers, managing all aspects of planning and execution for a top 10 grossing iOS and Android game * ● Interface with other development groups, Product, QA, and marketing to ensure that requirements are fully defined when presented to developers * ● Working with the development teams, provide early costing on large features and create detailed schedules for the delivery of those features * ● Manage all aspects of weekly releases, as well as live issues, rollbacks, and hotfixes