Aug 2024 – Jun 2025 · 10 mos

• As the General Manager for Null Games, a developer-friendly publisher of creatively inspiring indie titles, I was responsible for:
• Working with the team and devs to establish goals and ensure success for our games
• Developing and sustaining long-term business strategy for the publishing label
• Supporting an inclusive, remote-friendly culture
• Business operations (HR, financial, and legal functions)
• Building and sustaining partnerships with vendors
• Developer, partner, and platform relations

Jul 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Los Angeles, California, United States · Hybrid

• Partnered with Night School Studio and Netflix Internal Game Studio leadership to develop multi-year project and studio operations strategies.
• Maintained studio & project budgets, analytics reporting, resource management plans, and forecasting in partnership with Netflix finance partners.
• Owner of all external development and vendor engagements, managing sourcing, contracts, invoicing, business relationships, negotiations, and performance evaluation.
• Established a single production ‘source of truth’ through which all studio projects (schedules, resourcing projections, budgets, deliverables, etc.) can be tracked and managed by Night School production.
• Developed, improved, and maintained hiring strategies and onboarding processes.
• Developed framework and roadmap for supporting in-market catalog titles across a multitude of platforms (Steam, PlayStation, Nintendo, Xbox, iOS, Android, etc.).
• Served as production owner for Black Mirror: Thronglets and OXENFREE for Cloud.

Mar 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Lead Manager of external developer and content creator partnerships for Fortnite.

Sep 2021 – Mar 2022 · 6 mos

• Works with Fortnite team leads to understand, determine, and deliver on outsource needs for Fortnite content and development
• Works with Fortnite producers to scope, negotiate, and set objectives with external partners
• Manages appropriate contracts, invoice approval, timelines and delivery schedules
• Identifies opportunities to improve workflow as it relates to outsourcing and improves as needed

Nov 2020 – Aug 2021 · 9 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

• Project managed standardization efforts relative to asset readiness and title launch, and scaled training frameworks for partner teams across Netflix.
• Partnered with multiple cross-functional, globally distributed team members (technical and creative) in developing robust project plans, documentation and sustainable project milestones.
• Managed day-to-day prioritization of global vendor teams specializing in various asset fulfillment workflows.

Mar 2020 – Nov 2020 · 8 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

• Partnered with Creative Production teams in facilitating fulfillment of digital, go-live critical assets within strict promotional deadlines (video, audio, metadata, artwork, etc.).
• Developed iterative support infrastructure that allowed Creative Production teams to request asset fulfillment and/or technical assistance from operations team.
• Initiated robust workflow documentation efforts that formalized standardized "how-to" instructions for various asset fulfillment workflows.

Oct 2019 – Dec 2019 · 2 mos · Los Angeles, CA

• Promotional planning, trailer production, merchandise development, social media management, platform relations, and event coordination for Yacht Club published titles.
• Authored blog posts, press releases, and social media copy in-line with studio identity, and contributed to narrative development of Yacht Club-published titles.
• Managed initiatives to license and curate merchandise for Yacht Club Games IP.
• Milestone management and press coordination for all pre-release and launch marketing beats.
• Scouting for new video game titles to be published by Yacht Club Games via qualitative review, developer outreach, and coordination with internal stakeholders.

Jul 2014 – Sep 2019 · 5 yrs 2 mos

• Coordinated synchronous global launches of award-winning digital video games (across PC, console, and mobile), soundtracks, and merchandise projects.
• Authored the studio handbook, developed sustainable and generous internal HR initiatives, scaled the development team, and managed day-to-day operations and long-term operational frameworks for the business (accounting, compliance, commercial real estate, and more).
• Partnered with studio executive leadership to formalize production milestones, long-term business objectives, contractual obligations, budgets, and hiring frameworks.
• Developed, managed, and manually constructed artistic and functional booth designs across more than 20 tradeshows and conventions, including E3, the PlayStation Experience, and PAX.
• Managed relationships with contractors and teams responsible for external game development services across multiple titles (Transistor, Pyre, and Hades).
• Worked directly with several digital platforms and publishing partners to expand distribution of game titles, ensure timely remittance of publishing royalties, and furnish audit reports on request.

Nov 2011 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Managed day-to-day business and facilities operations of award-winning video game development studio.
• Scaled independent studio store to feature dozens of unique, creative merchandise items (apparel, giclee artwork, vinyl records, collectible figures, etc.).
• Managed contractor and vendor relationships, inclusive of contract coordination, onboarding, and day-to-day relationships.

Aug 2008 – Dec 2008 · 4 mos · Oakland, CA