Resume

Matt Worrell - Game Production
jamesmworrell@gmail.com
580-747-3787
Skype: mateo1220

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Experience

Associate Producer - Houston, TX
Dreadnought Lead: Producer, Mike Barr

Managed and removed blockers as feature producer of five features and scrum master of two strike teams
Tracked work and velocity through JIRA tasks story points and an excel backlog
Scheduled and led meetings to ensure teams had the resources needed to bring features to completion
Collected weekly playtest feedback to iterate on features using post-match discussions and surveys
Producer for team creating a new UI that is required to have parity between PC and PS4

Production Coordinator - Houston, TX
RiME Lead: Producer, Cody Bradley

Facilitated communication across four continents, took notes at meetings, and, maintained project confluence pages
Passed console certification for PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Switch on first attempt, responsible for Xbox and PC skus
Bug triage with QA lead weekly to ensure health of development and properly assign bug severity
Hosted and monitored internal playtest which resulted in areas with 90% player failure rates decreasing to 20%

Production Internship - Cary, NC
Paragon Lead: Executive Producer, John Wasilczyk

Realized project’s scope and development schedule by creating dependency schedules using google sheets
Removed team blockers via creation of a new user guide, managing JIRA tasks, and day to day problem solving
Scheduled meetings and recorded notes for all project departments; tracked tasks created at meetings using JIRA
Prepared accommodations, meeting schedules, and playtest sessions for industry guests and project consultants

Externship - Montreal, QC
Child of Light Host: Writer, Jeffrey Yolhalem

Interviewed managers for university paper about video game production practices and management theory
Interviewees: Dan Hay, Patrick Plourde, Jean-Francois Poirier, and Brianna Code

Internship - Oklahoma City, OK
CasinoRPG Lead: CEO, James Simpson

Co-developed isometric free-to-play browser game made in the Isogenic Game Engine
Designed monetary system, procedural world layout, and mini-games through documentation and paper prototypes
Surveyed community about what they enjoyed about gold and promoted game on browser game forums
Tracked game analytics and doubled user retention rate by adjusting game’s incoming user interface
Assisted in Kickstarter campaign in events like weekly community chats resulting in the crowdfunding of $20,000

Roles: Producer, Senior Producer
Two Teams of 14
16 week development times

Inua – Produced using product backlog and agile methodologies with scrum; contracted game’s composition
- Winner of Best Visual Quality at the Intel University Showcase at GDC 2016
Gravitas – Mentored and advised as a Senior Producer through lead meetings and peer evaluations

Roles: Producer, Game Designer
One Team of 7
12 week development time

EscarGO! – Produced project that shared art team with a separate project; balanced game systems

Roles: Lead, Producer
Three Teams of 4, 6, and 6
8 week development times

SuperCrush – Led team and ensured vision and scope through personal sit downs
The Abyss – Correlated communication between product owner and team
Heart of the Incendium – Improved team morale by resolving interpersonal conflicts during peer evaluations

The Guildhall at SMU, Plano, TX
Master of Interactive Technology, Production Specialization
Graduated: December, 2015

University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Bachelor of Business Administration in Management
Graduated: December, 2013