Robin Hare

Experience

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  IGT

  Aug 2005 - now

  • Lead the creation of new and innovative Class III game design and game development.• Fully accountable for the game vision throughout the development process, managing multiple projects simultaneously. • Provide direction and leadership working in teams to collaborate and elevate the product vision.• Guides, reviews, analyzes, and iterates on game mathematics, art and engineering to support high product quality.• Create, implement, and monitor schedules and budgets for products. • Foster innovation that will grow company patent and trademark repositories supporting company market share.• Accountable for playing and providing feedback on all Class III products that help structure products.• Report to key stakeholders current development progress, market trends, lessons learned, statuses and issues.• Develop and foster relationships with functional managers, executives, operators and sales. • Research competitors, customers, and trends to stay current with market.• Foster growth internally to forward progress the studio’s evolution. • Experience in JIRA, TEAMS, Basecamp, SAP, Matrix, Excel, Word Show less • Responsible for managing the localization efforts for all gaming studios within the company across multiple studios.• Managed resources that provided translations and approvals for all games into multiple languages. • Responsible for hiring, career development plans, mentoring and employee coaching. • Researched, developed, and successfully maintained relationships working with multiple third-party providers creating NDA’s, contracts and SOW, negotiating costs, and continuously monitoring new opportunities.• Successfully repositioned the localization office process and procedures, suppliers, and staff to create higher customer service quality, more cost-efficient budget and an increased turnaround time for all translations and approvals. • Work with the tools team to find ways to build efficiencies to reduce duplicate translations costs, graphical errors to assist with streamlining the translation process for internal game developers. Show less • Led multiple, complex projects from idea/concept to the completion of the project for game development.• Led the integration of game content with all cross-functional organizations to deliver the project on schedule and meet all requirements regarding licensing, legal, see pays, marketing, compliance, and gaming regulations.• Planned and scheduled project development and implement problem resolution for risks. Maintain all project documents including but not limited to charters, scope documents, risk registers, and testing plans. • Accountable for all project documentation working in SAP, Matrix and proprietary databases.• Reported to management the progress, status, and issues on each project. Provide presentations as needed.• Facilitated meetings with cross-functional organizations and management.• Pioneered a localization office for the studio creating processes, directly managing resources, maintaining positive customer service, and providing full translations for all products in cross studios in multiple languages. • Point contact for outsourcing, including contract creation, statements of work, fulfillment, and submission for payment. Show less

  • Director Game Development

    Feb 2022 - now

  • Senior Game Producer

    Mar 2011 - Feb 2022

  • Localization Manager

    Jun 2013 - May 2019

  • Technical Project Manager

    Dec 2006 - Feb 2011

  • Facilities Coordinator

    Aug 2005 - Dec 2006