Manager Executive

Alexander Chang **** S. Seabluff Dr. Playa Vista, CA Cell: 818-***-**** ***********@*****.***

Education

University of California: San Diego September 2007 – June 2011

Bachelor of Arts

•Major in European History, Minor in Art History

Professional Experience

Production Controller - Temporary

Animated Accountants West Hollywood, California October 2019 – Present

F is for Family Season 4 ; Do Re Mi ; Stillwater ; Trial 4

Produce production finance deliverables including: ledger bibles, cost reports, balance sheets, and PO’s.

Provide financial support to Production Executives.

Audit accounts payable and purchase orders.

Ensure that production cost information is properly reflected on internal files.

Coordinate monthly production cost meetings in order to review outstanding items for productions.

Perform show reconciliations/closings and year end 1099 processing.

Process and track all overall deal payments.

Provide guidance with accounting database systems and administration.

Extensive relations with Entertainment Partners support staff.

In-depth understanding of Paymaster and Guild rules and regulations.

Production Accountant

Animated Accountants West Hollywood, California March 2019 – October 2019

F is for Family Season 4 ; Do Re Mi ; Stillwater ; Trial 4

Process all accounts payables and petty cash reimbursements via Global Vista and Cashet PCard System.

Manage internal Scenechronize hub.

Ensure production advances and studio paid costs are properly recorded in the production general ledger.

Preparing distribution changes and journal entries for input and auditing them

Submitting inter-company JE’s and wire transfers to Studio Finance for approvals and processing

Plan and perform ad hoc projects as needed.

Set Top Box Project Management Certified ScrumMaster®

DirecTV / AT&T El Segundo, California January 2016 – December 2018

•Analyze and complete Director level reports to measure team effort on a quarterly basis and project testing expenses for the next quarter / year. These reports are presented to the CTO of the AT&T Entertainment Group to accurately breakdown the resource effort of the entire Entertainment Group.

•Created a completely new process to project allocated monthly hours and scheduling for the 186 resources within the NEL STB team; eventually teaching the process to other departments and teams.

•As a ScrumMaster, I aided the team in jumpstarting the conversion process from a Waterfall methodology to an Agile process.

One of the major roadblocks encountered during the transformation was removing the notion of traditional Artifacts and replacing them with a Product Backlog where the Product Owners and executives could create User Stories that they would like to include in upcoming Sprints.

To work out impediments in ticket accountability, I engineered a new process in JIRA to triage and track issues to improve the quality of increments and products released by each sprint and to customers in the field. This process resulted in reducing the number of ‘Executive Level’ issues released to customers by 50% each year and was adopted by other teams and vendor groups.

After being given the management of the vendor team, QAnalyst, to improve efficiencies and the value of their testing output, burndown charts coupled with Scrum boards to track accountability during each iteration were introduced to the team. After their implementation, they were able to increase their overall velocity by ~20%.

•Compile and deliver semi-annual Encryption reports pertaining to HW and SW that are exported from the United States to the US Dept. of Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), National Security Agency (NSA), and the Global Trade Organization (GTO) to ensure they are in compliance with determined specifications and encryption protocols.

•Act as the final stopgap for the release of code to customers by liaising between all departments involved with build deployment and implementation (Production, EPMO, Field, NEL, SWE, Care, etc.) and ensuring everyone is in agreement with the level of ‘done’ for current sprints and Go-No-Go releases.

•Facilitated the planning and development of AT&T Consumer Premise HW products and SW releases in Microsoft Project while managing responsible stakeholders, tracking project schedules, and hosting key meeting to ensure that projects are completed within their designated Time Boxes.

Received personal congratulations from the CTO for completing development and releasing manufacturing SW for the HS17. By working with the various AT&T and vendor teams and enforcing them to adhere to a strict Time Box schedule, I was able to pull in the release schedule, saving the team $1,000,000 in SW development costs. As a direct result of this, the AT&T Supply Chain was able to begin its transition for customers earlier than projected and at faster rates. At the current consumer consumption, procurement cost savings are estimated at $5,000,000 in 2019 alone.

Received special acknowledgement from the CTO for my facilitation of communication between the Development Teams, Product Owners, and various stakeholders via an emphasis on transparency to unveil impediments and guiding the teams that were not familiar with Scrum methodologies to launch the C61W: a reduced cost wireless client that enhances customer experience with faster, longer ranged HW, and a more reliable signal.

Received similar recognition from the CTO for my role in overseeing and facilitating the QA Test and HW teams and completing last minute Executive Requests to qualify the new NAND flash C61R2-500 client with an alternate vendor. This mitigated supply risk posed by the previous vendor and allowed the company to continue production without any additional overhead or interruptions.

QA Technical Lead

Amazon Game Studios Irvine, California June 2015 – October 2015

•Managed the schedules of the offshore QA team in Poland to allot the appropriate testing resources for current and newly implemented features to meet milestone deadlines.

•Designed the full test suite for the 15 man QA team to provide complete test coverage for an unannounced AAA title.

•Created and executed API test cases to cover all of the endpoints and commands exposed by the projects’ API.

•Learned SOAP and Rest API and a Java based in-house languages and created automated test scripts to log when functions were initiated and to listen to callbacks to catch and log any errors in order to streamline daily tests and checklists.

•Generated a daily status report and attended daily Scrum meetings to maintain visibility within the development and production teams and to act as the main point of contact for the QA team.

•Gathered and submitted feedback from bi-monthly playtests to generate presentations and reports for studio heads and other relevant stake holders in order to readjust the project’s focus to adhere to its original business model.

•Worked directly with the Executive Producer to provide testing coverage of 6 mobile titles for the release of Amazon Underground on the latest versions of Fire TV, Android and iOS devices.

Quality Assurance Tester

Treyarch Santa Monica, California December 2014 – April 2015

•Acting team lead for a group of 8-10 testers in an agile SDLC environment.

•Coordinate with multiple SKU teams to complete project workloads and meet milestone deadlines.

•Work directly with user research and functionality development teams within the studio as well as participate in weekly playtests to provide feedback, criticism, and to implement changes on updated requirements.

•Manage correspondence and requests from development departments to design test plans and create test reports.

•Submit the project’s Daily Status Report to multiple management, Dev, and QA departments.

Quality Assurance Tester

Activision Blizzard El Segundo, California August 2012 – December 2014

•Tested multiple third-party companion apps on Windows, iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire tablets and mobile devices.

•Verified and reviewed web content and functionality on various web browsers, including Safari, IE 8, IE 10, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

•Structured and optimized requests from multiple web / mobile app Development teams in Shanghai and Raven Software to distribute to a team of 4-5 testers.

•Identified and regressed test cases across the JIRA, DevTrack, DevTest, Bugzilla, SpiraTest, and Hansoft databases.

•Monitor the network latency, bandwidth, and download and upload speeds for Dedicated servers and build transfers.

•Created and designed multiple test plans to verify functionality, hardware compatibility, data content, and usability.

•Tested localized versions to verify correct language translation, text formatting, and functionality in multiple foreign languages.

•Performed black-box and white-box testing on multiple platforms, including Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PC.

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