Shawn Gates
Senior Project Manager at Nintendo Technology Development
Bothell, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Gates is a Senior Project Manager with a decade of experience orchestrating engineering and UX teams at Nintendo, where he progressed from game tester to senior leadership in Redmond. He excels at translating UX research into feasible engineering plans and vice versa, ensuring designs are both user-centered and deliverable on schedule. His background in Game and Interactive Media Design gives him a practical appreciation for player-facing product decisions and technical constraints. A former small business owner, Shawn brings entrepreneurial resourcefulness and cross-disciplinary communication skills that help teams move quickly without sacrificing quality. He is based in Bothell, Washington, and is known for advocating UX within technical programs to bridge gaps that often stall product delivery.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Game and Interactive Media Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Game and Interactive Media Design at ITT Technical Institute-SeattleGreen River College
Japanese
Github Skills (8)
vtt10
azerothcore9
csharp8
character-sheet7
rpg6
discord6
discord-js5
discord-bot5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
GatesShawn/pbp-helper
May 2019 - Sep 2021
Discord helper bot for chat and play-by-post RPG servers/channels
Contributions:1 release, 85 commits, 138 PRs in 2 years 4 months
discord-jsdiscordbotdiscord-botchannels
ElvesofZion/MaterialPortfolio
Oct 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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