United States

Business Development

Game Design

Project Management

University of Southern California

✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Diversity & Inclusion

Jerica D. Manuel

Relationship management

Communication

Critical-thinking

Conflict resolution

Project management

Negotiation

Brand strategy

Content strategy

Budget management

Tableau

Adobe Photoshop

Affinity

Airtable

• Manage projects at different stages of development
• Lead and collaborate with teams to hit production milestones and maintain creative vision 
• Act as a liaison to dev partners, facilitating collaboration and managing conflict resolution
• Maintain project budgets, schedules and forecasts, anticipating, identifying, and resolving overruns
• Collaborate with Marketing and PR to support promotional efforts while advocating for the dev teams
• Assist backend processes such as Live Operations and Release Management

• Supported slate of multiple projects, tracking partner submissions and ensuring timely delivery of art direction, gameplay, story, narrative, and franchise feedback for approval across multiple internal stakeholders
• Collaborated with partners on new interactive product concepts, including game design and game identity

• Managed a growing portfolio of 7+ licensed games across multiple studios and time zones
• Owned assigned deliverables and identify/assess risks at all stages of development, escalating as appropriate 
• Facilitated productive communication between development and franchise partners
• Helped define and build the long-term vision and strategy for live services and seasonal programming as projects matured while maintaining deep competitive awareness
• As a DE&I committee member, organized a 1-hour panel for 100+ attendees aimed to encourage embracing invisible disabilities in the workplace

• Assigned and managed tasks during the development of an extensive, dynamic database for PC/Console and mobile game titles using Facebook's game taxonomy and knowledge graph
• Reported weekly KPIs and performed focused testing to find gameplay issues and defects for Facebook Instant Games
• Drafted proposals for key updates to Facebook’s internal Taxonomy database

• "Storyscape" went live on mobile devices in October 2019 with 1.7 million downloads in its first two months, #1 trending in the Simulation genre globally
• Created comprehensive scripting plan, incorporating best practices for scripting and event conditions
• Constructed 2.5D original environments in Unity in the style of multiplane camera animation
• Implemented character performances, stage animations, and text layout in Unity
• Collaborated with designers and engineers on the development of internal tools and pipelines
• Key participant in production meetings with show writers, designers, artists, producers, and engineers

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