Jun 2025 – Feb 2026 · 8 mos

• Senior Project- and Engineering Manager for the software engineering team at Ubisoft Scalar, our Cloud-native platform supporting developers and players to create unique gaming experiences at scale.
• Direct manager for 11 Software engineers, Infrastrucure engineers and Networking programmers
• Managing the budget for the team
• Working with a distributed team spread through Europe and Canada
• Supporting career advancements of the team
• Generating leads for the use of Scalar within Ubisoft
• Setiing up production pipelines for the development of the tech (planning, risk analysis, scoping etc.)
• Implementing Agile and Lean methodolgogies for faster delivery and an increased focus on value

Apr 2023 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Shipped Projects:
• Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
• Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Skybreaker DLC
• Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Secrets of the Spires DLC
• Star Wars: Outlaws - A Pirate's Fortune DLC
• Shipped the main game of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora in this role
• Continued responsbilities for the delivery, quality and scope of >40 gameplay features, spread out over 5 teams, totalling ~35 developers within Software Architecture, User Experience Design and Realization.
• Additional responsibilities in this role:
• Managing our Lead Programmers who reported directly to me
• Performance reviews, salary conversations, creating personal development and improvement plans
• Increased autonomy on the succesfull management and delivery of several core features
• During the development of additional content for the Avatar project I expanded my responsibilities to include more diverse teams in my scope including more realzation teams.
• This required me to work closer with out project leadership and included more direct reports.
• Additionally I also supported the Marketing and Brand team by being the project management liasion between them and the development teams. Aligning the priorities of the team with the priorities of our two marketing trailers.
• For the development of the Star Wars project I worked with our BAFTA Nominated Audio Design team. A 10 person team responsible for all Audio and Music.
• Supported the Audio Director in conveying audio direction
• Organized the scope of the Audio team to provide better clarity on what to do and what's left
• Optimized the pipelines to allow us to move faster and deliver higher quality
• Took us out of the Scrum cadence and implemented Kanban for increased flow of our work
• Removed roadblocks and made the general team more aware of Audio by sending a weekly update
• Negotiated contracts with outsourcing partners

Feb 2022 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Very similar as a my Project Coorindator role but with higher agency and ownership.
• Additional Responsibilities:
• Managed risk and create mitigation strategies
• Responsible for more longer term planning of my teams
• Owned and coordinated initiatives that focused on specific improvements on the game throughout development

Sep 2017 – Feb 2022 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Project Coordinator on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
• Joined at the start of the project life cycle
• Responsible for 5 different cross disciplined teams
• Coordinated a group of 30 developers total, spread through software architecture, realization, interaction design and testing
• Running the Scrum events, tracking progress, balancing workload and capacity
• Keeping up communication with stakeholders, ensuring needs are understood and translated into requirements for the teams
• Experienced working with JIRA and Confluence
• Throughout the project I also stepped in to support various other teams wherever my assistance was needed at the time.

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Remote

• Mentor within the Dutch Game Mentors program (https://dutchgamementors.nl), focusing on the areas of project management and career development.

Sep 2016 – Jan 2017 · 4 mos · The Randstad, Netherlands

• Worked with Scrum on a daily basis
• Ran a game through the Microsoft certification process
• Learned about release planning and setting milestones
• Created project kick-off documentation

Feb 2015 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr · Eindhoven

• Created production pipelines
• Oversaw production and reported progress
• Interviewed, hired, and supervised interns
• Moderated meetings both with partners & clients

Jul 2012 – Dec 2012 · 5 mos · The Randstad, Netherlands

• Programmed primarily in AS3, and LUA
• Learned about Design Principles in OOP programming
• Developed stress tests on different mobile devices
• Organized paper prototyping sessions
• In addition, this internship was also my first introduction to Scrum.

Jan 2012 – Jun 2012 · 5 mos · The Randstad, Netherlands

• Programmed primarily in AS3, HTLM5, JavaScript
• Helped solve game design challenges
• Learned about OOP programming
• Started learning about the value of rapid prototyping