Kevin Burgess - Producer / Outsource Vendor Manager, Meta

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Work Background

MetaOutsource Vendor Manager / Art Director (Vendor for Meta)

May. 2021 - Apr. 2024Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area · RemoteOutsource vendor management, art direction, project management, ingestion of art assets. I supported the 2P titles for Horizon Worlds and managed contracts and production with 6 different vendors (China, India, Vietnam, Mexico, Oregon, Canada). Notable success was authoring the spec docs and then herding ~8,500 3d models into the build over the course of 12 months. Statistics one year later indicated this library was the most downloaded and edited library in the entire HzW ecosystem.

Media.MonksSenior Producer

Aug. 2020 - Dec. 2023Austin, Texas, United States · RemoteI produced digital media projects that launched on a variety of platforms: Web, TV, Print, Mobile. I am a hybrid between a Producer and a Creative Director in that I contribute to the design of the project and then am part of the team that pitches to close the deal. Then I produce the project from staffing to completion. Recently I have been on a tear designing and selling game-play animations that help our client sell their products.

KOMPAN Inc AmericasSr. Design Manager

Jan. 2015 - Sep. 2020Austin, TX▸Led international design team that has grown business from $11M to $62M over four years for a B2B and B2C advertising and marketing studio of a global playground manufacturer; personally recruited, trained, and scaled team up from four to 16 designers in two cities ▸Overhauled production pipeline and shifted to photo-realism approach that improved visual quality, increased productivity by 300%, and is now recognized as industry-leading; methods were implemented at 12 other company subsidiaries worldwide ▸Created animation that successfully convinced key client to sign $1M contract with KOMPAN in 2019 ▸Trained entire sales force in a variety of technical processes. I am routinely asked to spearhead rollouts of technology for the company ▸Managed between 200-300 projects per month at an average of $34K utilizing a variety of tools and methods such as Agile/Scrum; developed custom Gantt charts and wrote scripts for tracking data ▸Collected, organized, and visualized data to identify and present trends to senior leadership for business decisions, such as adding headcount or quantifying performance ▸Developed career progression model which was implemented throughout company across 12 other locations; current team has maintained 95% retention, the best rate out of all design studios in the entire company worldwide ▸Built positive company culture and brand while leading creative teams and conducting team-building activities ▸Directed media and art production for company’s LinkedIn and Facebook channels ▸Nominated for the Global Award for Design and Visualization for animation project in 2019

Synect MediaLead Designer

Jan. 2013 - Dec. 2015Redmond, WA▸Led 3D design team during four international advertising campaigns for Microsoft that launched in 62 stores worldwide in a client-facing role that included pitching creative, receiving feedback, and coaching team to meet client requests; won Screenmedia award for the Titanfall/Xbox launch in 2014 ▸Implemented new animation techniques for creating 2D and 3D while overseeing process improvements and change management for a team of eight designers ▸Launched four advertising campaigns, including the Microsoft Surface Pro and multiple Xbox video games ▸Utilized Adobe Creative Suite, including After Effects, InDesign, and Illustrator, Maya, 3DS Max, and VRay to make 2D and 3D digital media