ReCap

Technical Requirements Engineer: Aug. 2005 - Feb. 2016

Directly out of high school in 2005, I started working as an engineer for Activision / Blizzard. This place gave a lot of opportunities to be able to work on many AAA projects from Doom 3, Call of Duty, Destiny, Guitar Hero, and so much more. I also had the opportunity to work on licensing projects from Dreamwroks, MGM, and Marvel. Here I was involved with what is called the certification process. A process that all titles need to go through and a set of guidelines and rules that the title need to abide by to be allowed on cert platforms like Playstation, Xbox, and Nintendo.

Tasks

• Communicate with daytime counterparts of what issues cropped up and what to keep an eye out for.

• Log new and potential issues that can cause issue during certification submission.

• Scrub through online forums for new and potential issues.

• Help create testing cases for new titles that came our way.

• Write persuasive waivers to give reason as to why a title doesn't need to adhere to a certification rule. 

• Be able to train new hires

• Provided support to the studio heads when needed

• Provide problem solving skills and work-around solution for bad builds.

• Collaborate with other engineers to integrate fixes.

• Create feedback loops to ensure communication is getting accrosed to all departments.

• Write end of shift reports highlighting high priority issues that were found, and a general wrap of the days issues.

• Transfer and receive highly classified data

• Engage with daily meeting among leads