Jan 2023 – May 2023 · 4 mos

• Manage Riot's Creative, QA and Production departments.

Sep 2020 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Head of Operations for Riot Entertainment which includes Forge Games, Riot Music, Consumer Products, Location Based Experiences, Books and Film/TV (including Arcane). Directly managed Insights and Central Operations departments.
• Identified the need for, bootstrapped and managed IP Strategy team, responsible for company-level League IP strategy and IP management.

Oct 2019 – Sep 2020 · 11 mos

• Head of Operations for Game Studios which included Riot Platform Group, Valorant, Legends of Runterra, and Hong Kong development studio.

Sep 2017 – Mar 2018 · 6 mos

Mar 2016 – Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Established and led Riot Platform Group (RPG) - a central group responsible for products, infrastructure, technology and operations that power League of Legends, Legends of Runterra, Valorant, TFT, Wild Rift and all Riot's future games and other products.
• Riot Platform Group included social/identity platform (accounts, chat, friends), content distribution, web, mobile, infrastructure, network, commerce, big data, live operations (NOC, incident management), localization, customer support. Additionally the group was responsible for creating company-level processes and work systems for prioritization, coordination and orchestration of game launches.
• Riot Platform Group enabled the transition of Riot from a single to multi-game studio, releasing Valorant, TFT, LoR and WildRift in quick succession, globally and without any major technical issues.

Feb 2015 – Mar 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Delivery oversight and operations of the entire product (~600 people). Also an active member of the leadership team of the Development Management department focused on talent and craft (hiring process, career progression, compensation strategy etc).

Apr 2014 – Feb 2015 · 10 mos

• General management and P&L responsibilities for the global physical infrastructure (datacenters), cloud solutions and back-end services and operations. In charge of product and services strategy, delivery of new initiatives, SLA and capacity maintenance for League of Legends. Direct organizational oversight of the group (~90 people).

Apr 2013 – Mar 2014 · 11 mos · Greater San Diego Area

• Molten Games was a start-up in San Diego founded by ex-Blizzard, Relic and SOE developers. In under a year Molten Games was able to build an amazing team of developers (our hiring bar was extremely high) and developed a really fun game (see videos below). We've managed to build an amazing studio culture as well - this was a studio everyone loved working at.
• Joined Molten Games at its inception and helped build the studio from grounds up.
• Served as a Technical Director through the first months of the development
• Recruited production, QA and most of the Engineering team, growing the studio to ~60 developers
• With the VP of Creative set and maintained the scope, timelines, and focus for the studio
• Set up studio in agile format (SCRUM for pre-production and Kanban-style pipelines for content production), adjusted the format at each Sprint based on feedback
• Set up production infrastructure (WIKI, JIRA) and production processes (branching, deployment, naming conventions, scheduling, hand-off, suggestions board etc)
• Handled Art Outsourcing
• Leadership: mentoring, weekly one-on-ones with the reports, conflict resolution, morale building
• Executive pitches to publishers

Nov 2012 – Apr 2013 · 5 mos

• With a small dedicated team developed a demo for Victory - an online multi-player RTS game.

Sep 2011 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Tech director on "End of Nations" - a Massively Multiplayer Online Real-time Strategy (MMORTS) game that combines the action and strategy of the RTS genre with the massive persistent world, character progression, and individual achievement of a traditional MMO.

Jun 2008 – Aug 2012 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Led a small strike team to create a gameplay prototype for a “first of its kind” MMORTS game using Petroglyph’s pre-existing proprietary peer-to-peer engine. Based on the prototype the company went on to sign a contract for the “End of Nation” MMORTS title.

Jan 2004 – Jun 2008 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Gameplay systems architecture, graphics , tools using VS C/C++, LUA, and XML on PC and XBox platforms.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

• Project lead for NASA Virtual Glovebox Project at UNLV Computer Graphics and Image Processing Laboratory (CGIPL).