Mike Gaiptman

Managing the Roadmaps & Deliverables for 3x Montreal Based Teams while also managing the overall execution of multiple mandates through multiple Co-Dev teams around the world.

• Fostered a positive working environment by promoting open communication channels among team members during projects.
• Oversaw all production phases of mandates and ensured a high quality results with our stakeholders and players

Process Driven Manager - with a passion for building Emotional Intelligent / Autonomous Teams

• (2x UNANNOUNCED PROJECTS)
  Production Manager In charge of the following Departments: UI- UX / World/ Characters / Art / Economy / Progression / Accessibility (+ Strike Teams)
• Creator of LEARNING workshops in many topics: JIRA / JIRA Best Practices / Scoping Efficiency / Measuring Capacity / Creating Digestible Roadmaps with Realistic Scheduling

Gameplay Producer for Gotham Knights
Forward thinker, Team motivator & Feature driver: Managing the gameplay roadmaps for: (Animation, Tech Animation, Gameplay Programming & Game Design)

• Guided the gameplay team and the features towards ship, facilitating creative decision making, scope change and maintaining an organized environment through bug triage and task management. (Trusted to Scope and Schedule all features within the game )

Eidos Montréal - Production Coordinator - Shadow of the Tomb Raider (PS4, XBO, PC) Trusted to ship Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s three combat-heavy maps with a team of 30 people

• Preserved team’s morale and velocity through the most difficult phase of the project
• Balanced responsibilities between level assignment and unexpected production needs for the systemic features (Gameplay, 3Cs, metagame, UI)

Promoted from Project lead to Production Coordinator after exceeding expectations in people and project management as well as showing expert knowledge in the products’ development pipelines

• Improved relationships with outsourcing partners and marketing as well as fostered a more collaborative and communicative environment between internal departments and crafts
• Trusted to track progress from kick off to sign off and review features quality against owned acceptance criteria; acting as approver on 'Project Greenlight' for submissions
• Introduced and shared knowledge of agile workflows, tools and methods while acting as scrum master for the QA and Live Ops teams and implementing more robust and efficient workflows

Head of QA (Windows, Windows 8, Windows 8, Windows Phone 7/8, Android and iOS)

• Adept at solving problems and on the spot thinking
• Manage a team of highly trained and experienced Quality Analysts
• Train Production, Design, Development teams on Quality Standards
• Integration of QA with an Agile project management environment
• Adapt efforts to meet evolving feedback and industry changes