WHO AM I?
Hi! I’m Rodrigo Peña Salvador, a Spanish video game producer living in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
I'm a Production Coordinator at Rockstar Games, in the Rockstar North studio.
ANY PRIOR EXPERIENCE?
I have been the junior producer of an award-winning indie/student game, two professional serious games, and a game tester for GTA Online and Red Dead Online at Rockstar Lincoln.
WHAT AM I INTERESTED IN?
Looking for associate producer positions.
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GAMES
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: DECEMBER 2024 - NOW
ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: JULY 2023 - DECEMBER 2024
ASSISTANT PRODUCER: NOVEMBER 2021 - JULY 2023
ROCKSTAR North
My objective is to offer development support to my team and to improve global communication between various disciplines of game development and studios located around the world, ensuring there is a clear workflow.
To achieve this, I organise and document meetings, clearly and accurately track and present detailed schedules, status reports, and other documentation, and manage the team’s bug and task queues to avoid roadblocks.
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GAME TESTER
DECEMBER 2020 - NOVEMBER 2021
ROCKSTAR GAMES Lincoln
At Rockstar Games Lincoln, I worked on both Grand Theft Auto Online and Red Dead Online as a game tester.
Our self-organized team was specialized on testing new content packs, tunables (weekly events, discounts, incentives, etc) and stability checks.
We coordinated and divided our tasks to efficiently and accurately complete feature sweep tests. In addition to identifying, documenting, tracking, and verifying bugs on both games across all platforms.
Projects
Grand Theft Auto Online:
- GTAO – The Cayo Perico Heist (post-launch content)
- GTAO – Los Santos Tuners (launch and post-launch content)
- GTAO – The Contract (launch content)
Red Dead Online:
- RDO – Bounty Hunters (post-launch content)
- RDO – Blood Money (launch and post-launch content)
JUNIOR PRODUCER
SEPTEMBER 2019 - JUNE 2020
BURN ME TWICE
NULL REFERENCE STUDIO
I was the junior producer of an adventure game released on Steam on May 2020, with +75.000 dowloads and a very positive reaction from the public and critics alike. The project won “Best Student Game Award” at Gamelab and Fun & Serious, the two most prestigious game awards in the Spanish industry, as well as the Game Developers Worldwide Championship, among others.
Burn Me Twice was developed in a challenging schedule of just nine months, and I acted as the only member of the production team. To deliver a high-quality game in such little time, I focussed on the following:
- Facilitating communication and managing the team
- Implementing agile practices
- Planning, tracking and verifying the tasks of a team that grew from 6 to 12 people.
In addition to my responsibilities as producer, I oversaw its publishing, marketing, social networks, and actively participated in the game design and testing.
SERIOUS GAMES
JUNIOR PRODUCER AND DESIGNER
MODULATE
MODULAR HOME. february 2018 - july 2019
AUTOCAD MEETS THE SIMS
Easily design and visit your future modular home in both PC and VR
PRODUCTION
Lead the project, planned its production cycle, and negotiated with the publisher
DIRECTION
Established a clear vision of the product and how to achieve it, adapting to the client's needs and feedback
JUNIOR PRODUCER AND DESIGNER
ionide
IONIDE TELEMATICS. june 2020 - august 2020
casual games
Eight iOS apps to cognitively stimulate the residents of nursing homes and hospitals
MAXIMIZING EFFICIENCY
Planned and designed the development with lean thinking principles in mind
PRIORITIZING
Identified the critical elements that would yield the best results, allowing us to overdeliver new experiences for the player reusing large parts of code under the hood
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EDUCATION, COURSES AND CERTIFICATES
COURSES AND CERTIFICATES
July 2024
LSE’s course to lean leadership, strategic thinking, managerial, economic and accounting skills.
Full scholarship sponsored by Santander.
August 2023
Joined the British Games Academy through their Connect program, which recognizes promising professionals at mid-level stages of their careers.
February 2022
The world’s leading project management certification. Includes waterfall, agile and hybrid approaches. The PMP proves project leadership experience and expertise in any way of working.
June 2021
Professional Certificate by Google. Completed six courses that include hands-on, practice-based assessments.
They are competent in initiating, planning and running both traditional and agile projects.
February 2021
Official Scrum certificate that demonstrates a fundamental level of Scrum mastery. Holders prove that they understand Scrum and how to apply it in Scrum Teams.
February 2022
The world’s leading project management certification. Includes waterfall, agile and hybrid approaches. The PMP proves project leadership experience and expertise in any way of working.
June 2021
Professional Certificate by Google. Completed six courses that include hands-on, practice-based assessments.
They are competent in initiating, planning and running both traditional and agile projects.
February 2021
Official Scrum certificate that demonstrates a fundamental level of Scrum mastery. Holders prove that they understand Scrum and how to apply it in Scrum Teams.
ROCKSTAR GAMES TRAINING SUITE
February 2021
+20 LinkedIn Learning courses curated by Take-Two and Rockstar Games tackling topics like communication, leadership, management, and collaboration.
October 2020
An online course that teaches the basics of agile methodologies and how they can be implemented using the issue tracking service Jira.
Bachelor's degree
SEPTEMBER 2016 - JUNE 2020
Game design
u-tad
At university I learned about game design, game production, and project management; and in my free time I put that theory into practice by making my own prototypes and participanting as the junior producer or a junior designer in the development a handful of student games.
Highlights of the collaborative projects I worked on each year:
- 1st year: 2.5D platformer.
- 2nd year: VR experience and TTRPG (at the same time I worked professionaly on Modulate).
- 3rd year: Numerous personal prototypes and a graphic adventure (at the same time I worked professionaly on Modulate).
- 4th year: Burn Me Twice, and a personal turn-based bank heist prototype.
Other notable achievements :
- Was awarded a Best Academic Record scholarship
- Defended an elaborate end-of-degree thesis that studied the production cycle of games and various aspects of team management
- Was hired by the university to impart game design workshops
NON-PROFIT WORK
MAY 2014 - NOW
Investiga I+D+I
What’s Investiga?
While most educational programs are based on competition, Investiga chooses to create a highly collaborative environment in which the 16-year-old participants work together towards a common goal: give a coherent presentation on a predetermined, very specific scientific topic.
They will put in common their prior research, ask their questions to experts in those fields, and reach their own conclussions.
While this might be the textbook definition of what one of their congresses is like, it merely scratches the surface of the real experience.
Personal Impact
To me, the Investiga I+D+i program represents a 10+ year long commitment to the preservation one of the most impactful educational experiences I’ve ever had.
This is where I discovered and cultivated my passion for leading teams and projects, as well as where I’ve met some of the most inspiring individuals ever.
I wouldn’t be the either person or the professional I am without it, which is why I grew from being a participant to the longest-running volunteer in the organization.
Highlights
- Key player in preparing the team of Chairmen and setting the Congress’ tone each year.
- Successfully co-lead the adaptation of the Congress to the digital format during the pandemic.
- Coordinator of the first ever regional Congress.
- Congressman in both International and National congresses, facilitating conversations about topics ranging from nuclear fusion to the neuroscience of knowledge.
- Spanish representative in the International Youth Congress.
MAY 2014 - NOW
Video game-related NON-PROFIT
Since August 2023
Joined the British Games Academy through their Connect program, which recognizes promising professionals at mid-level stages of their careers.
Since May 2022
Volunteering to mentor groups of students in their Studio Live events, acting as their product owner and and jury in a week-long game jam.
Since 2021
Regularly mentor and perform CV and portfolio reviews on a personal level to both industry peers and people that aim to break into it.
Since 2018
Talked at industry events, imparted workshops, and gave presentations at a few career weeks at high schools.
SKILLS, REFERENCES & CONTACT
sKILLS
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
I've been the producer in a variety of professional and non-profit projects with teams from 2 to 12 people. I have a Scrum Master certificate from Scrum.org as well.
soft skills
Proactive and problem solver, organizational skills, attention to detail, team player and self-driven, good communication and interpersonal skills, active listener.
PLATFORM EXPERIENCE
Worked on projects for PC, Playstation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, VR, mobile devices, and Google Stadia.
MANAGEMENT SOFTWare
Experience with Shotgrid, Figma, Jira, Microsoft Office 365 Suite, Monday.com, Trello, HacknPlan, Confluence.
engines, bug tracking & version control
Unity, Unreal Engine 4, R* in-house software, Jira, Sourcetree, Unity Collaborate, GitHub.
OTHER TOOLS
Office, Outlook, Slack, Zoom, Discord, DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Photoshop.
others say...
"His positive energy was very contagious. (...) He is the kind of down to earth and reliable peer one always dreamt of working with."
Worked together at Modular Home, ionIDE, and on the Investiga program
"Rodrigo is the most persistent and dedicated person I've had the pleasure to work with so far. His planning and scheduling skills are extremely useful and helped me develop my games providing a perfectly fitted timeline."
Worked together at Rockstar Lincoln and consulted on his freelance project
"In addition to his technical know-how, what surprised me about him was how, while being so young, he always managed to deliver on time, meeting the client's expectations and keeping a 10/10 attitude."
Co-managed Modulate directly at Modular Home
"Even under the pressure of tight deadlines, he knows to stay calm when problems arise. I appreciate his positive and realistic demeanor, being one of the many reasons why I am glad I worked with him."
Worked together on Burn Me Twice
"Rodrigo quickly excelled in understanding all the ins and outs of the system and helping all the teams he came into contact with willingly and effectively"
Worked together at Rockstar Lincoln and went to university together
Want to know more?
ABOUT ME
What made you persue a career in game development?
Bioshock Infinite. It was the first game that made me wish that I had been involved in its creation.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO BE A BETTER PRODUCER?
Apart from naturally expanding my gamedev knowledge and improve my people skills at work, in my free time I am studying to get certifications and attending courses to better my expertise in agile methodologies, project management and either master or learn new software.
What excites you?
I love to travel, play videogames, discuss with friends the latest movies we’ve watched, visit theme parks, and organize national scientific congresses for young students with the Investiga I+D+i program.