Vye A

Vye A (also known by the handle Vye) is the Senior Producer at Soulbound Studios with a history of work at Zynga, Amazon Game Studios, and of particular interest, The Amazing Society, where she worked on the MMO Marvel Super Hero Squad Online.

September 2005 – January 2008
Vye worked for DigiPen as a web developer while she was in school there. She was part of the team that undertook a complete overhaul for their main website as well as developing 6 other ancillary websites, along with several other projects. Her roles included content creation and management, editing, and compositing.

May 2005 – December 2008
As a student at the DigiPen Institute, she doubled as a student producer of a student run game project. There, she received accolades from one Mikhail Davidov, now a senior security researcher at Duo Security: "Katie is the kind of project manager that makes you feel safe, like everything is under control even if it isn't. And in the end it all goes to plan. She really cares about both her projects and team and somehow manages to keep up quality...

May 2008 – May 2009
After graduating from the DigiPen Institute, Vye went on to work at Hourglass Games, where she managed a team of 4 developers and 6 artists on an XBLA title using the Unreal 3 engine. She was involved in all stages of production creating scheduling and milestone documents, task lists, asset lists, and dialogue scripts and was responsible for managing work flow, liaising with the publisher and 3rd party vendors, running weekly meetings with the development and art teams, reviewing and updating design documents, reviewing and designing levels and art assets, preparing and reviewing milestone deliverables, and providing any other requested support for the company owner.

August 2009 – December 2009
In the latter months of 2009, Vye briefly returned to the DigiPen Institute under contract as a web developer where she prepared and produced news items and other content using Typo3, trained other users on Typo3, and created tutorials. She helped work on a reorganization and redesign of the student section of the website and even headed up a project to create featured web pages for student works.

June 2010 – April 2011
Upon joining The Amazing Society, Vye assumed the role of associate producer and Scrum Master for Gazillion's all ages MMO, Marvel Super Hero Squad Online. She worked with Product Owners to write stories using the Agile methodology, and removed blocks from developers and artists. Her colleagues often returned to her as "a phenomenal rising star and is destined for a Senior Producer position" and "embodies the very best of project management".

August 2011 – November 2012
With these outstanding recommendations under her belt, she began her work at Zynga as a producer on the Free-to-Play Facebook game CastleVille, managing up to 4 single and cross-discipline teams simultaneously, including feature development and weekly content release teams, design department, and localization. She worked with Zynga's internal Localization team to ensure quality localized game updates daily.

November 2012 – April 2015
At Amazon, Vye became the Lead Producer on several released and unreleased games including Living Classics and Fun Facts. Developed process for and managed all aspects of the studio's flagship alpha/beta test for The Unmaking.

October 2016 – Present
On October 2016, Vye joins the Soulbound Studios team as Senior Producer to ensure the delivery on the promises made to the players. She has said she is looking forward to creating and fostering amazing new narratives within Chronicles of Elyria.

Works

 * Marvel Super Hero Squad Online
 * The Unmaking
 * Living Classics
 * CastleVille
 * Chronicles of Elyria (in production)