Heather Maxwell Chandler is a multimedia producer with over 20 years of experience in the video game industry. She's worked in production at Epic Games, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and Activision. She was most recently a Senior Producer on Fortnite.Heather has contributed to over 35 games, including Fortnite, Never Alone, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Sid Meier's Railroads, Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia, Vigilante 8, Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, Shanghai: Second Dynasty, and Apocalypse. She also worked on every title in the Ghost Recon series, including Ghost Recon 2 and Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. In 2005, Heather founded Media Sunshine, Inc., a company that provides consulting services to game developers and publishers. She is the author of The Game Production Handbook, The Game Localization Handbook, and several other articles on game development and localization. Her articles have been published in Secrets of the Game Business and The Project Manager's Desk Reference, 3rd Ed. Heather has lectured on game production and development at North Carolina State University, the Game Developers Conference, IGDA Leadership Forum, and at several other conferences and educational institutions. She served as the chairperson of the IGDA Production SIG from 2006 - 2010. Heather graduated with honors from Vanderbilt University and received an M.A. from the USC School of Cinema-Television.
