Anthony Barnes

Anthony Barnes is the Onsite Coordinator at Modis. Anthony was previously with Worlds Within Reach and Blizzard Entertainment. Anthony has a background in program management, with a focus on driving operational processes and tools, as well as new employee onboarding and coaching junior leaders.

During their time at Blizzard Entertainment, Anthony was instrumental in adapting development operations to withstand indefinite remote operations, a shift that made the department more agile and enabled business continuity despite COVID-19. Anthony also created reports covering the asset development output for Global Post Production, served as Program Manager for all online/linear broadcast media content planning for BlizzCon 2019, and co-developed the department’s annual operating plan and budget for 2020. In addition, Anthony developed Airtable into a backbone tool for department planning and tracking, which increased productivity and provided senior leadership with data that informed budget and resource allocations.

Anthony’s key accomplishments include earning a promotion from Project Manager to Program Manager in 08/2020, reducing ambiguity in strategic planning by developing relationships with stakeholders across Global Esports in order to ensure that the Global Post Production team would be in strong business alignment, andapproached by senior strategic operations leaders to build a company-wide rollout of similar tools to standardize across IPs.

Products shipped during Anthony’s tenure include Overwatch League 2019, BlizzCon 2019, Overwatch League 2020, and Call of Duty League 2020.

Anthony Barnes received a BA in Video Game Art and Design from The Art Institutes. Anthony is certified as a Scrum Master (CSM) by the Scrum Alliance.

Some of their coworkers include Tanya McGregor - Program Manager, Faith Benningfield - Onsite Coordinator. Their manager is Ben Dose, NAM.