Keaton White
Operations & Production Leader || Enabling High-Performing Game Development Organizations
- Role
- Senior Manager, Development and Operations at Riot Games
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Keaton White
I love making games — I’ve been doing it since I was 10 years old. Now older (and…
Experience
Senior Manager, Development and Operations
Nov 2021 — Present · Mercer Island, WA, US
Driving effectiveness, velocity, and clarity across R&D to ship genre-defining games to players.Responsibilities:Shape division-level operations that include our investment processes, portfolio strategy, and equipping stakeholders with information they need to drive the business.Partner with development and central teams across Riot to drive operational strategy, implement best practices, and fill production leadership gaps during critical development phases.Achievements:Established consistent, repeatable approach to our investment processes that is being adopted in other parts of the company.Unlocked the potential of several struggling teams through team-driven goal-setting, guidance and practice, and implementing sustainable planning and communication structures, leveling each of them up from struggling to top-performers in under a quarter.Designed and built project status reporting system for our games division to enable faster, better-informed decisions at the executive, studio, and team levels while reducing the reporting burden on leaders.Authored core production materials and interview kits for external development producers, defining best practices now referenced across our games division.Expanded my initial project\'s art and engineering capacity through tightly integrated external partners, setting vendor-driven quality bars which became benchmarks.Stabilized one of initial project\'s primary initiatives (team of teams) during product owner gap, enabling nascent team leaders and setting solid cadence and delivery consistency, resulting in major improvements in team outcomes and health.
Education
Macalester College
Bachelor's, Economics; Japanese Language and Culture
2005 — 2009
Waseda University
Study Abroad, Economics; Japanese Language and Culture
2007 — 2008
Middlebury College
Summer Language School, Japanese Language
2009
Skills
- Liasoning
- Game Development
- Process Management
- Marketing
- Producing
- Translation
- Online Gaming
- Ps3
- Stata
- Business Development
- Research
- Mobile Games
- Leadership
- Console Games
- Iwork
- Video Games
- Interpretation
- Ps4
- Game Design
- Computer Games
- Microsoft Office
- Xbox 360
- Business Strategy
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