Walt Yarbrough

About Walt Yarbrough

At this stage of my career, you can sum me up with the \'See One, Do One, Teach One\'…

Experience

1. Executive Producer - Summer Innovation Program (Sip), Extension (Sipx), Experience Program (Xp)

   Massdigi At Wpi

   May 2012 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Working for MassDigi - we have developed the Summer Innovation Program (SIP), Summer Innovation Program Extension (SIPx) and the Experience Program (XP) for student interns and graduated interns. As Executive Producer, repeatedly revised Scope, production methodologies, deliverables, expectations and requirements to evolve the very efficient program we currently run annually.Originally started with no proscribed production methodology, then evolved to Agile/Scrum, which we quickly abandoned at my direction - the shift to Kanban is described in a blog post here: intern experience these days is to form a team, start from concepts, and build a core 1.0 version shippable version that will launch on Android and iOS, with a concurrent marketing push. After this industry quality launch, these products are then evaluated for future updates, and some are maintained and updated with MassDigi’s partners.The extension program is an intern team working with an industry partner, often as a supplement to an active professional team. 2021 releases (to date): Crustacean Frustration, Mochi\'s Dreamland, Dream Pop, Clock Out, Bewitching Boba, House Haunters, Trials of Midnight, Catthroat Kitchen, Ballroom Banter, Street Shuffle 20••••20 - Continued with Kanban methodology - 4 products completed and shipped each summer2014 - Produced 4 projects - shifting students into Kanban. All 4 completed first testable build and shifted to production in 6 working days. All 4 projects shipped at the end of the summer - with two - Cat Tsunami and Midnight Terrors being picked up by publishers for further development. 2013 - Producing the summer interns on four projects. Expanded to a 5th project and successfully shipped one release and 4 playable builds.2012 - Producing the summer interns on three projects. Shipped one product (Nanoswarm) on iPad and two testable builds.

Education

• Virginia Tech

  BS

  1988 — 1992

Skills

• Teaching
• Quality Assurance
• Character Animation
• Xbox 360
• Artificial Intelligence
• Community Management
• Online Gaming
• Kanban
• Storyboarding
• Gameplay
• Mmo
• 3d
• Scripting
• Game Development
• Animation
• Ps3
• Casual Games
• 3d Studio Max
• Maya
• Digital Painting
• C#
• Game Design
• Unity3d
• User Interface
• 3d Modeling
• Computer Games
• Lean Management
• Product Management
• Social Games
• Video Games
• Actionscript
• Rigging
• Skype
• Concept Design
• Mobile Games
• Texturing
• Agile Methodologies
• Slack
• Zbrush
• Perforce