Platforms:
PS4, PS5, PC (Steam, Epic Game Store)
Role:
Production Coordinator (Contract)
Summary:
During my roughly 10 months at Santa Monica Studio, I worked on the Worlds team supporting the development of God of War Ragnarök. More specifically, this included overseeing some of the environment art and lighting teams' day to day operating processes while assisting the teams' owning producers. This included running meetings, capturing notes and action items, updating & maintaining production and project tracking documentation, and owning the jira triage process for those teams. While on the Worlds team, I also identified gaps in cross-department communication and worked closely with the a handful of other producers to identify and enact a process solution I could own to help increase visibility across teams.
Contributions:
➸ Supported day-to-day production on the environment art and lighting teams.
➸ Improved cross-departmental visibility and reduced communication overhead surrounding downstream dependencies between Vis Dev and environment art teams through weekly emails detailing recently approved work, in progress task status, and relevant dates.
➸ Compiled data for, wrote, and delivered various recurring production reports and meeting agendas using Jira and BigPicture. Took and disseminated meeting notes.
➸ Performed burndowns and true-ups on important production documents to reflect the most up to date and accurate statuses of environment art and lighting work for better informed decision making and scheduling.
➸ Entered and assigned out Jira tasks based on various team needs.
➸ Performed regular Jira maintenance to improve usability for other producers and devs, including adjusting stack rankings, reflecting task priority from production docs, and making sure proper fields are filled in correctly for better querying.
➸ Elevated dev issues to appropriate parties for faster turnaround on resolution and otherwise helped resolve blockers.
Role:
Production Intern
Contributions:
➸ Assisted production staff with day to day production issues for different departments.
➸ Worked closely with various cross-departmental groups to ensure communication, delivery of assets and feedback.
➸ Helped assemble presentations for teams, take screenshots and record footage.
➸ Helped to take notes in various stand-ups and meetings, disseminated information, updated schedule and bug databases, the wiki and tracked status.
