Kay Gilmore

• First Producer hired at the Austin Studio
• Promoted to Development Director within one year
• Manage art, tech and design schedules and sprint deliverables
• Increased productivity by 50% across all teams, by setting goals, and giving specific delivery dates
• Worked to create a highly iterative process, while maintaining high quality deliverables and work/life balance for team members
• Worked closely with Studio Director on studio wide decisions
• Manage QA and Customer support along with my production duties
• Key contributor with localization effort

• Responsible for rebuilding the team, setting reasonable goals for the team, and production processes.
• Reported directly to Executive Leadership on the status of milestones and sprint deliverables for both Little Alchemist and Nickelodeon: Card Clash.
• Worked closely with the product team for game improvements and delivery dates for those improvements.
• Set the team up with a more stringent cadence for releases to iOS and Android.
• Oversaw Live Ops on releases.
• Worked closely with key stakeholders on status, communicated potential risks with mitigation strategies.

• I took over responsibility for the General Manager position after they exited the company.
• Managed the game team, Senior Directors, and Production.
• Reported team progress directly to the Executive Leadership.
• Responsible for executing on company goals.

• Responsible for team deliverables, budget, and roadmaps.
• Executed on the Roadmap Deliverable.
• I worked with my senior directors for milestone and sprint planning.
• Built a very efficient team that delivered on set goals.

• After Battlecry Studios was acquired by Bethesda Game Studios, my position transitioned into managing our backend teams.
• Responsible for managing the server, platform, and DevOps team.
• The team had a tight timeline for releasing Fallout 76 worldwide, responsible for building a roadmap that could ensure all of our live services were ready for the worldwide launch.
• Managed day-to-day stand-ups and team management.
• Added key engineers to the team to ensure we could meet our deadlines.
• Reported status to stakeholders weekly.

• Senior producer for design and engineering teams. With a focus on the quest team.
• Managed day-to-day progress
• Initiated more collaboration between cross-studio team members, which increased team morale and productivity.
• Ran daily stand-ups, schedules, and roadmaps.
• Reported production schedule to key stakeholders.

• Responsible for managing multiple eLearning software projects from concept to completion, responsible for managing client relations, project schedule and key personnel
• Produced the following projects:
• Austin2040 Water game for MuseWork and LCRA
• PRI - an eLearning for a course for New York doctors, teaching them motivational interviewing and communication to help reduce mal-practice suits
• LIVESTRONG - developed an eLearning course to help healthcare providers learn how to communicate with cancer patients about fertility and treatment plans
• This course used our first 'conversation simulation' developed in house
• Produced multimedia projects for AMD, Sherry Matthews and SXSW
• Key contributor for Enspire's eLearning game development

Director of Development – Millennium Online

Responsible for developing a full schedule and budget for un-released MMO. Budget management, hiring, scope control and project management practices.

• Responsible for managing budget for MMO.

• Managed and developed various schedule’s. These schedules were based on different scope proposals for the MMO. • Implemented project management practices for development team.

• Transitioned team from tradition Waterfall project management to SCRUM/Agile.

• Built project management team, which consisted of four senior project managers and three associated level project managers. • Managed and rebuilt design team after the departure of our design manager.

• DD on unreleased title, managed design, at and assisted with programming staff
• Set sprint schedules and deliverables with Executive Producer
• Managed and mentored employees in various disciplines, as well as different skill levels
• This spanned between senior level staff, to associate level staff

• Responsible for rebuilding QA team to meet aggressive development release schedule
• Assisted Executive Producer in the final phases of Darksiders II, managing team through final implementation, QA cycle and product submission
• Took over QA team in the final six months of development through software submission
• Facilitated all communication between Vigil and THQ publishing team
• Worked directly with the development team to manage bug counts, verifications and final implementation

• Responsible for working with Executive Producer and General Manager to manage scope, quality and development schedule
• Brought on as producer for Darksiders I to manage development team in their final implementation phase through final release
• Introduced key strategies to manage scope
• Key partner in final release of Darksiders I ensuring that the product met is final release schedule