TOM COLLINS
Associate Producer
ABOUT ME
I am an Associate Producer, with over 7 years experience working within the games industry. I have experience managing multiple commercial game projects, including working on titles such as Overcooked. I am currently looking to secure a permanent contract in an production role.
Professional projects I have worked on
Professional Experience
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER - TEAM17
Managed multiple teams as a member of the third-party production team.
Oversaw the timely and cost-effective delivery of multiple projects.
Collaborated with key stakeholders, including clients and lead producers, to establish clear goals and objectives for each project, and ensured regular monitoring, tracking and reporting of project status.
Organised development meetings on projects, setting agendas, facilitating discussions, taking notes, and identifying action points arising from any meeting, to ensure accountability.
Maintained required production documentation on all projects such as: milestone documentation, budgets, and RAID documentation.
Maintained and arranged quotes, managing bugs and feedback, arranged sign off and ensured all tasks were managed through a centralised project tracking system.
LECTURER - UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD
Undertaking research with game design theory
Delivering content on game design theory and production
Mentored final year dissertation students
Document and develop learning resources to a high specification.
Worked alongside my team to ensure exceptional quality in the delivery of industry-standard content.
Delivering excellence in teaching and learning
QA ANALYST - TEAM 17
Testing games to destruction to find and document any and all defects from first builds to the finished product
Compiling a list of defects or any issues of design or implementation during a testing cycle
Identifying and articulating problem areas within a game.
Developing and executing testplans.
Participating in game reviews and evaluations to measure the functionality of a game against its design specification
Working side-by-side with development teams to track issues and provide any help to assist in the remedy of any defects
PROJECT COORDINATOR - PAPERPLANE INT
Worked as project manager for a small mobile game development startup. Within this role, I was responsible for overseeing the completion of the project from early development to final release.
Maintained and updated project management software
Creating and updating documentation
Liaising with platform holders
Bug tracking
Producer and development oversight
Ad-hoc quality assurance testing