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Aric Rainwater

Jacksonville,FL

Summary

Resilient Producer with 3 years of game development experience, with nearly two decades of Roblox experience. Handles production challenges with resourceful mindset. Proficient in managing pitches and story development. Capable of providing additional assistance to the team with game design and modelling work.

Also a flexible and driven System Administrator with nearly three years experience in Windows Server and Linux environments. Experienced with datacenter floor work regarding the racking, cabling, and management of servers and networking devices.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Gamefam
02.2022 - 10.2025

My position as an associate producer had me do work involving game design, basic 3D modelling, minor coding tasks, marketing, and monitoring of KPIs at a personal level. I used various tools such as the Atlassian suite, including Confluence to publish game design documents and QA documents, and JIRA or Trello to maintain ticketing to assign to my supporting team of artists and programmers to create and maintain games for our clients, including Build-A-Bear and the LEGO group.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Gamefam
12.2021 - 02.2022

Supported the game development projects of my assigned Producer by organizing and running quality assurance tests, recording results, and making both bug fix and game design suggestions based on the recorded results of the tests.

DATACENTER TECHNICIAN

Gigamon
07.2020 - 10.2020

Contracted through a temp agency for Datacenter Technician work through the night at a test site located within their headquarters to support their engineering team located within Chennai.

OPERATIONS ENGINEER

Roblox Corporation
02.2018 - 11.2019
  • Assisted with rack design for edge compute servers deployed in colocation centers worldwide
  • Provided on-site troubleshooting, break/fix, and maintenance for thousands servers in colocation centers
  • Provisioned over 7000 servers with operating systems using Canonical's MAAS
  • Assisted in deploying, managing, and configuring game and thumbnailing applications to edge compute servers
  • Performed on-call support for game servers two weeks every month
  • Utilized MSSQL to perform corrections on stored data on infrastructure components
  • Configured and managed DNS for new zones

OPERATIONS INTERN

Roblox Corporation
10.2017 - 01.2018
  • Managed and re-imaged over 13,000 Windows servers
  • Managed capacity needs for game servers
  • Maintained regular communications with leased server providers for maintenance and support needs
  • Provided on-call support for game servers

INCUBATOR

Roblox Corporation
06.2017 - 10.2017
  • Provided project management for game project
  • Created dozens of 3D assets and world design with Roblox Studio tools
  • Collaborated with teammates on game design and philosophy principles
  • Communicated frequently with application engineers regarding feature requests and bug reports

Education

Associate of Applied Science - Network Administration

Southcentral Kentucky Community And Technical College
Bowling Green, KY
05.2017

Skills

  • Managerial skills within both technical and game development environments
  • Familiarity with the Atlassian suite, including JIRA and Trello for ticketing, and Confluence for documentation
  • Nearly two decades of familiarity with the Roblox ecosystem
  • Server racking and cabling experience
  • Hardware knowledge
  • Windows use, management, troubleshooting and support experience
  • Linux use and troubleshooting experience
  • Hardware and software installation
  • Troubleshooting of issues in a multi datacenter network containing thousands of servers
  • Infrastructure planning
  • Reporting and documentation using Atlassian products such as Confluence and JIRA
  • Powershell, Bash, and Python scripting experience
  • Networking design and protocol knowledge
  • DNS configuration and management experience

Timeline

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER

Gamefam
02.2022 - 10.2025

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Gamefam
12.2021 - 02.2022

DATACENTER TECHNICIAN

Gigamon
07.2020 - 10.2020

OPERATIONS ENGINEER

Roblox Corporation
02.2018 - 11.2019

OPERATIONS INTERN

Roblox Corporation
10.2017 - 01.2018

INCUBATOR

Roblox Corporation
06.2017 - 10.2017

Associate of Applied Science - Network Administration

Southcentral Kentucky Community And Technical College