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Rion Williams

Rion Williams

Senior Sales Assistant

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Producer at Next Games

  • Education

    • Bucks New Uni

      2005 - 2008
      BA Music & Entertainment Industry Management

      Activities and Societies: -Involved in numerous live events -Performed in a few events by myself and with others Studied Music Industry Management during which time I was heavily involved in the local music scene, working with others to put on events and promote local artists. For my dissertation I focused on the idea of societal subcultures rapidly changing in the modern age and how the ties to musical genres and movements related to this.

    • Richard Huish College

      2003 - 2005
      A; B Level Psychology; Biology (C) and Popular Music Industries

    • Court Fields Community School

      1998 - 2003
      10 GCSE's A* - D Including Math, Science and English

  • Experience

    • GAME Ltd

      Nov 2008 - Oct 2010
      Senior Sales Assistant

      -Retail supervisor role involving training and leading the team, driving sales, cashing up and key holding responsibilities and personnel admin tasks

    • Toolstation

      Oct 2010 - Jan 2011
      Supervisor

      -Retail supervisor role involving training and leading the team, driving sales, cashing up and key holding responsibilities and personnel admin tasks

    • NaturalMotion

      Jan 2011 - Nov 2016

      As Submission and Release Manager I manage a small team that provides the technical and deliverable 'bridge' between the games teams and platform. Our task to gatekeep content and ensure each content release goes as smoothly and effectively as possible, as well as provide hands on support through out all stages of project development.Key Responsibilities:-Collating work with departments across the business into a single point of content delivery-Working across all areas of business to ensure no obstacles to the submissions-Building robust yet adaptable company wide processes and systems to ensure best practice is being met-Ensuring accurate record keeping and reporting to all levels of the business-Providing a technical point of contact to aid games teams integration into platform specific systems Show less

      • Submission and Release Manager

        Oct 2012 - Nov 2016

      • QA Project Lead

        Jan 2011 - Oct 2012

    • Seriously Digital Entertainment

      Nov 2016 - Nov 2022

      • Product Owner

        Jan 2022 - Nov 2022

      • Release and Content Director

        Oct 2020 - Nov 2022

      • Producer

        Jan 2020 - Oct 2020

      • Associate Producer

        Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

      • Senior QA Coordinator

        Nov 2016 - Jan 2019

    • Next Games, A Netflix Game Studio

      Nov 2022 - now

      • Game Lead

        Oct 2023 - now

      • Senior Producer

        Nov 2022 - Oct 2023

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Certified Scrum Master

      Scrum Alliance
      Jan 2013