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Alli Ottarsson

Principal at Makers Fund

Reykjavík, Capital Region

Overview

Work Experience

  • Principal

    2021 - Current

    Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage companies. We support founders through our extensive network and deep experience in the industry.

  • Venture Partner

    2020 - 2020

  • Strategic Advisor

    2019

  • Strategic Advisor

    2018 - 2020

  • Strategic Advisor

    2016 - 2020

  • Sr. Development Director - Games

    2015 - 2019

    In my current role at Riot Games I co-lead the Development Management discipline at Riot and am responsible for all of our Development Directors and Devleopment Mangers that work on games. Both on League of Legends and on our R&D projects.

  • Sr. Development Director of League of Legends

    2012 - 2015

    As the Development Director of League of Legends for over three years I * Scaled the development team to over 500 contributors * Transformed the work system to be strategically driven * Enabled a culture and practices for Continuous Delivery * Stabilized our release cycle to reliably deliver every two weeks * ... and built a team of 27 awesome development managers

  • Production Director

    2011 - 2012

    Lead and owned the global game development process and provided leadership and mentorship to the Production discipline across all of CCP. Organized, facilitated and lead long term portfolio level planning. Managed strategic partnerships with third parties and developed and implemented continuous education programs within the Production discipline.

  • Sr. Technical Producer

    2009 - 2011

    My duties in this position included productization of CCP’s core technology platform: Carbon, servant team leadership, coordinating with the Sr. Producers of CCP’s products on portfolio level plans and technical roadmaps and evangelizing Agile project management methodologies and production best practices throughout the global organization as well as managing offshore outsourcing relationships.

  • Technical Producer

    2007 - 2009

    Team facilitation, planning and production with the EVE Online Software group and later CCP´s Core Software group, ensuring implementation of third party software and propagation of Agile project management methodologies.

  • Web Cell Lead

    2003 - 2007

    My duties included leading a team of up to five web developers, architecting and implementing CCP’s billing and payment platform and was responsible for both CCP’s internal and outwards facing web strategy.

  • Web Developer

    2001 - 2003

  • Senior Web Engineer

    2000 - 2001

    Solely developed CCPs internal web infrastructure, EVE Online websites and web services and integrated web and video game support functionality in EVE Online.

  • Software Integrator

    1999 - 2000

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