Gregory Lutzer

• Own and Drive Management Operating System for titles in Business Unit
• Own Gating process and standards for our titles
• Regular deep dives with project leaders to assess progress and status
• Sharing and compiling best practices across our studios
• Adhoc support for studios needing extra expertise and recommendations
• Maintain strong relationships with Studio Ops, Production, and DD leaders in each studio
• Main POC for partner teams
• Own overall resource management for Business Unit.
• Participate in regular Finance reviews and support Finance with recommendations around staffing needs.

• Work with project leadership team to establish the strategy to meet milestones and important deliverables.
• Guide the project management for the team: scope definition, dependencies, resource planning, and cost analysis that creates and achievable project plan, return on investment evaluation.
• Use appropriate processes, techniques and technologies to promote collaboration between team members.
• Build an engaged group with an understanding of what inspires the individuals and team.
• Promote knowledge sharing, learning, reconciling conflicting goals, sharing resources amongst the team.
• Help the team keep its focus: filter issues based on a clear understanding of the project goal, and help the team break down complex problems.
• Develop project indicators that track project quality, delivery and predictability.
• Identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks, followed by a coordinated application of resources to minimize and manage risks.
• Establish regular communication with team and partners to provide project status updates.
• Partner with the wider company spanning from QA, outsourcing vendors, and central teams.
• Ensure the team engagement and health all along Production.
• Handle the financial management: finance planning and financial control.
• Shipped titles including: Army of Two: Devils Cartel, Need for Speed Rivals, NHL 16, Battlefield Hardline, Dead Space Remake (2023), plus several cancelled NewIP.

• Build working relationships with the immediate team, and those outside of the immediate team that have an effect on project completion
• Identify development bottlenecks, determine root-cause (i.e. resourcing needs, dependencies, etc), and recommend/implement solutions where necessary
• Communicate regularly with the project team and coordinate dependencies with external partners
• Participate in the hiring process to ensure candidates meet project requirements
• Facilitate the creation and assignment of tasks, derived from defined project goals
• Proactively mitigate risk for assigned scope and quality
• Establish an overall project schedule based on the individual task estimates for production and assess the resource requirements to meet the task requirements.
• Games shipped: Medal of Honor Warfighter, NFS The Run, NFS Undercover, NHL 04, NHL 05

Shipped: NHL Hitz 2003

Games Shipped: NFS Carbon, SSX On Tour, NHL 2002 (PC), NFS High Stakes (PS1), NHL 01 (PC), NBA Live 99 (PC), NHL 99 (N64), Triple Play (PC), FIFA World Cup 98 (PC), FIFA Road to the World Cup 98 (PC)