David Crislip

David Crislip

Group Account Relations Manager at Sony Computer Entertainme

Mid-level Account Manager / 20 yrs

San Francisco, CA

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Production Manager Support

Street Fighter IV (2009)

Bilingual video game industry professional with over a decade of experience in a diverse range of roles including translation/interpretation, localization/culturalization, product development, and project management.

Currently working as an SCEA Account Manager striving to manage and maintain relationships with publishers and the accompanying portfolio of products releasing on PlayStation hardware platforms.

Brief experience/skills summary:

- Translated scripts and related text for dozens of popular games including Dead Rising, Okami, and entries in popular franchises such as Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Mega Man.
- Extensive experience translating game design documents and other internal documentation.
- Extensive experience interpreting and facilitating at both internal and outward facing meetings and presentations (both J-E and E-J) in three continents.
- Proven track record of speedy and venue-appropriate interpretation at media interviews, press events, and other external functions.
- Experience managing a team of professional translators/interpreters tasked with overseeing sensitive development related communication between branches of a multinational company.
- Experience assisting and facilitating at voice recording sessions offering insight and background information on storylines, editing and rewriting to match lip flap on the fly, and occasionally stepping behind the mic to record a bellowing Wilhelm scream when the need arises.
- Disconcertingly encyclopedic knowledge of games released in the U.S. and Japan in the late 80s - early 90s.
Work History
  • Group Account Relations Manager

    Sony Computer Entertainment America

    December 2014 - Present

    My responsibilities include the management of publisher relationships and accompanying portfolio of publisher products releasing on PlayStation hardware platforms. I help to create an improved, differentiated consumer experience on PlayStation platforms while maximizing revenue for SCEA and our publishing partners.