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Darya Popova

Manager

Content Development

Hi! I'm seeking for career opportunity as a Project Manager, Art Manager or Outsourcing manager.

Biography

3 years ago I started working for a gamedev company as a playtesting specialist, in less than a year I grew to art manager, then to content and project manager. During that time I:
- learned mobile game development pipelines;
- studied and tried Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies;
- pumped up skills in planning, managing, and optimizing my own time and development processes;
- learned to prioritize tasks;
- developed skills in working with a team (40-45 people), including motivation, performance evaluation, interviewing, and mentoring;
- made difficult decisions and communicated them to the team;
- learned how to network with related departments and conduct effective meetings;
- find solutions to conflict situations;
- raised my English level from B1 to C1 and applied it in my work
- learned how to maintain project documentation;
- studied additional information on management, presentations, emotional intelligence, and stress management.

Skills

Roles

  • Basic

Other Skills

  • Basic

Work Experience

Present day

Specialist of the Playtest Department

Mytona
- Played levels and collected level data on mobile games in different genres (match-3, item search, time management) - Analyzed the results and provided feedback on the levels

Present day

Lead of the Playtest Department

Mytona
- Organized employees' work with all company projects: automated work with playtest requests, prepared guides for projects on playtest team work - Planned the workload of the playtesting department

Present day

Art Manager

Mytona
- Managed the company's art team using the Waterfall methodology (3D artists, 2D, 3D animators, riggers, VFX specialists): distributed employees between projects

Present day

Project Manager

Mytona
- Created a development plan for a Merge-3 game for soft launch - Planned sprint workload and monitored team performance - Managed a cross-functional development team (40 people), conflict resolution

Present day

Project Content Manager

Mytona
- Compiled content roadmap for the project - Prioritized tasks using RICE and project business priorities, updated the backlog of tasks. - Optimized the development pipeline