Alina B

About

Head of Game Production, award winning Narrative Director, Game Consultant and Mentor. Member of Estonian Screenwriters Guild. Website: www.alina.dev

Experience

• Production Process Architect, Narrative Director · One-O-One Games10-01-2023

  High level process & culture coaching. Implementation of Agile methodologies and lean practices across the organisation, fostering a self-organised, cross-functional team structure. Championed a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and transparent communication, enabling teams to identify and resolve impediments swiftly. Played a pivotal role in crafting compelling pitches and presentations to secure new business opportunities with publishers. Overseeing the production development process. Overseeing the narrative department, production and quality of the company's existing and new narrative IPs. Showrunning and managing the writers room across multiple projects. Support Company Leadership in implementing strategic initiatives.

• Head Of Production · stillalive studios04-01-2022 – 07-01-2023

  Overseeing the production team (producers, scrum masters and QA) across all studio projects, building the culture of collaboration, curiosity and support. Making sure all projects are delivered on time and in budget. Creating and evolving departmental standards. Making sure production department continuously upskills and improves in areas needed for the company. Supporting Company Leadership in implementing strategic initiatives. Aligning the departmental strategy and OKRs with the studio strategy. Developing new processes and standards that raise the quality of the work that is put out by the project teams and that make sure team members have ownership and accountability over their work. Creating a safe space that allows for errors and mistakes without endangering project success. Projects: Bus Simulator 2021 Quality of Life DLC, Garden Life, unannounced projects.

• Head of Production · META Publishing06-01-2019 – 03-01-2022

  Managing the production department and internal QA for all the company's products. Project supervision at all stages: project and team assessment, negotiations, milestone layout, kick-off, actual production, release, post release support. Creative and administrative support of the project (resource allocation, playtesting, focus testing, localization, porting etc). Problem solving of all kinds. Risk and budget control. Building from scratch and constantly improving internal and external dev processes to be fail-proof. Projects: Biped (Tencent), The Uncertain: Light At the End (Common games), Time Loader (Flasm), Horde Core (Digitality Studios).

• Game Director and Producer on The X-Files: Deep State · Creative Mobile Games11-01-2015 – 06-01-2019

  Full cycle SCRUM/AGILE development with a team of 26+ people. Developing the product vision from scratch, leading the production from pitching to the worldwide release. Introduced and implemented all of the Agile practices to the team. Built up a prototype-oriented production pipeline, milestone scheduling, cost-effective deliveries of the product. Worked together with the FOX team regarding feedback, branding and business cases. Took active part in the narrative design development, working closely with Chris Carter and his team regarding the new narrative concepts and canon approvals, managed the writing staff (3 writers) and took part in the writing process. Additionally was in charge of budget planning, establishing relations with outsourcing teams and mobile platforms - Google, Apple, Facebook. Post-release support and planning. Constantly working out the best solutions and pipeline optimization.

• Narrative Designer · Creative Mobile Games05-01-2014 – 10-01-2015

  Nitro Nation Stories - Best Mobile Game 2015 (DevGAMM Hamburg). Creating plot comics storyboards, characters, writing dialogue, improving the narrative-centric UI and coming up with a tutorial.

Education

• Odessa National Mechnikov UniversityMaster of Arts, International Relations

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