About the project

Jeopardy! World Tour is a project made in partnership between Uken Games and Sony Entertainment based on the hit tv show Jeopardy!

Project Description

Challenge the world in the ultimate game of smarts. Earn bragging rights as the Jeopardy! World Tour champion. Whether you’re at home or on-the-go, it’s the new way to play Jeopardy! with your friends. Play this new Jeopardy! experience as host, Alex Trebek takes you on a world tour!

• Have fun challenging the world with thousands of clues and categories
• Become a Jeopardy! World Tour champion as you climb the global leaderboards
• Earn free Power-Ups as you win your way through thousands of unique clues
• The true Jeopardy! experience in the palm of your hand

What the team had to say about me?

"I had the pleasure of working with Ze as a Producer at Uken during his 15 month contract with us. We worked together on multiple titles including Jeopardy: World Tour, Puzzle Solitaire and Ava’s Manor. Ze is detail oriented with a developed sense of urgency and is knowledgeable in project management processes. He is very responsive to requests and development changes, he is able to pivot his planning quickly if needed and also provides very insightful feedback. I would consider myself lucky to work with Ze again in the future."

Jen Costa - Director of Production at Uken Games

My Role

For this project I was the main Producer, presenting the milestones of each stage of the project, as liaising with external vendors and finally the internal team. This included managing schedules, resources, and teams, while ensuring the project aligned with business goals and creative vision. 

Here are some of my responsibilities:

• Sprint Planning - Each sprint, I worked with the team to create a sprint plan detailing what the team needed to accomplish and how we planned to work.
• Weekly progress meetings - Conducted weekly meetings to track production progress, ensuring that the project remained on schedule and addressing any challenges or roadblocks as they arose.
• Resource Coordination - Coordinated resources for Audio and Localization and facilitated effective communication across cross-functional teams to ensure project success.
• Product Backlog - Managing the product backlog to track our progress, and I helped the team maintain it throughout the project.

As a Producer my day to day also involved: 

• Monitoring project documentation and ensuring its accuracy across the project.
• Setting up JIRA effectively so that we could employ it to the benefit of the team supporting our agile structure.
• Being the key point of communication within the team, pro-actively helping team members that are blocked or are experiencing issues.
• Communicating with and being the contact point for stakeholders, writing Build Reports on a regular basis to keep the team informed.
• Working with the marketing team to coordinate new content and optimization releases with user acquisition campaigns. 
• Conducting weekly product quality assurance, making sure that all new content on the live operations calendar were properly tested before release.