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Grant Arthur

London

Summary

An experienced and results-driven Gameplay Producer, I’m passionate about empowering developers to be self-sufficient and ensuring they have solid pipelines and processes to enable them to work efficiently. I love seeing content created and fun games being made, by happy and engaged dev teams!

I’m looking for a company with shared passions and ambitions who are making great games.

I’ve also managed external partners who were providing environments, gameplay, and finished animated characters. In both cases I completely overhauled processes and greatly increased team efficiency on delivery and improved communications and morale.

I thrive in dynamic, fast paced working environments. I love the buzz of a happy focused team, adapting to new and challenging situations and bringing effective change where needed. I love ‘getting stuff done’ and providing solutions to do it, getting results, and helping get the team to where it needs to be.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior/Lead Producer (Gameplay)

Zynga/Boss Alien (UK)
11.2020 - 11.2023
  • Project: ‘Star Wars: Hunters’. Worked with Audio, Level Design/Level Art and Outsource partners to create in-game environments.
  • Oversaw full production of the Gameplay team, numbering over 70 people, driving vision, planning, pipelines, roadmaps, assisting producers, liaising with discipline leads, product, and management, ensuring best-quality/best-practice across the Gameplay team and guaranteeing successful completion of milestones.

Delivery Manager & Scrum Master

Ladbrokes-Coral (UK)
02.2018 - 11.2020
  • Software contributed to Ladbrokes and Coral mobile betting apps, and retail hardware including sports betting terminals, and colleague till systems and bet placement systems.
  • Millions of customers around the world have placed bets on football using these apps!

Change and Delivery Manager

Oasis Academy Shirley Park (UK)
02.2015 - 02.2018
  • Change and Delivery Manager within Creative Art and Technology Faculty (CATF)
  • Assisted school in raising the effectiveness of the CATF in processes and digital techniques, that translated directly to better results for students.

Art Outsource Manager

Crytek
06.2012 - 07.2013
  • Managed external outsource partners, preparing briefs and maintaining quality assurance. Games contributed to: ‘Ryse: Son of Rome’ and ‘Crysis III’

Art Manager / Outsource Manager / Scrum Master

Zoe Mode Games
01.2008 - 12.2010
  • Responsible for the day-to-day running of the art department, running special projects, assisting other group studios, and doing whatever was required to ensure our teams were successful in their allotted tasks,
  • Games contributed to: ‘Guitar Hero’, ‘Singstar’, ‘Girls Night In’, ‘Rock Revolution’, ‘You’re In The Movies’, ‘Zumba Fitness 2’.

Education

No Degree - Art And Design

Moorabbin College of Tafe
Melbourne, Australia
12.1983

Skills

    Helping teams plan sprints and deliver milestones – ensure team understands roadmaps and prioritise work (often in partnership with other teams)

    Organising complex requirements between product owners and developers and delivering working software on time and on budget

    Coaching and mentoring and keeping teams happy and productive

    Working with Unreal on mobile

    Reporting, risk management, escalation

    Agile to waterfall to Kanban JIRA, Excel, MS Project

    Highly experienced games artist with traditional art and photography background

Timeline

Senior/Lead Producer (Gameplay)

Zynga/Boss Alien (UK)
11.2020 - 11.2023

Delivery Manager & Scrum Master

Ladbrokes-Coral (UK)
02.2018 - 11.2020

Change and Delivery Manager

Oasis Academy Shirley Park (UK)
02.2015 - 02.2018

Art Outsource Manager

Crytek
06.2012 - 07.2013

Art Manager / Outsource Manager / Scrum Master

Zoe Mode Games
01.2008 - 12.2010

No Degree - Art And Design

Moorabbin College of Tafe
Grant Arthur