Edu Ponz

Successful development and launch of our beta mobile games platform on Android Google Play as a Product Owner, using Lean methodologies. Winner of the Gründerstipendium entrepreneurship grant from the Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, saving our company 48K Euros a year.

Helped customers such as Wooga and InnoGames improve the user experience design of their products, recommending suggestions for improvement from a user perspective.

Design, prototyping and testing of new product features for the action-puzzle game CLARC (Best Mobile Game at the Deutscher Computerspielpreis 2014). Launch of the title’s social media campaign, gaining fast traction throughout my personal network.

Identified the opportunity of using a trusted third party test provider in India. After a thorough risk/reward analysis, testing project costs were reduced by roughly 40% without negative impact on quality.

Created the Game Evaluation department to improve third party products, fostering a culture of trust and openness with the other testing departments. This fruitful collaboration allowed for recruiting and coaching available team members from other departments.

Lead a team of 10 people, sparking excitement about the test management tool. Motivated my team introducing bug and test cases traceability, resulting in a fewer amount of open bugs.

Co-founded and lead the Game Evaluation team, delivering upper management, marketing and development teams with an unbiased assessment of the quality of the company’s portfolio. Our Metacritic rating estimations before release had an average accuracy of ± 5 % on our lead platform.

Lead multiple testing projects of AAA products, acting as a mentor and coaching new inexperienced team members to ensure quality standards are applied.

Development, design and sales of corporate websites such as Museo Chillida-Leku and mendiak eta herriak.

Designed and developed a software tool capable of coding and verifying HL7 (medical network protocol) messages into XML files.

Final Project Thesis ‘An approach to Support Service Discovery in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. - Concept and Simulation’ at the KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany.