Foo Peiwen

About

Organized and dependable professional with extensive experience in project coordination, operations support, and localisation across game development teams. Trilingual in English, Japanese, and Mandarin, with strong cross-cultural communication and administrative skills.

Experience

• Project Coordinator
  Bandai Namco Studios Singapore
  Nov 2024 – Mar 2025

  Hirogami (PC/PS5) • Documentation & Onboarding: Created and maintained project documentation to onboard new team members and contractors, ensuring smooth knowledge transfer. • Schedule Coordination: Organised and tracked tasks across engineering, QA, marketing, and external partners, keeping all parties aligned to key milestones. • External Partner Management: Liaised with external QA teams (JP/Vietnam) and EU outsource partners, handling administrative coordination and follow-ups. • Team Support: Facilitated daily scrum meetings and cleared blockers, enabling the core team of eight to focus on development work. • Cross-border Communication: Coordinated between Singapore developers and Japanese business teams, including translation and interpretation support where needed.

• Project Coordinator
  Koei Tecmo Singapore
  Jan 2024 – Sep 2024

  Three Kingdom HEROES (iOS, macOS, tvOS) • Schedule & Task Tracking: Managed production schedule and tracked task progress across internal and external teams to meet Apple contract milestones. • Compliance Coordination: Coordinated across developers, QA, Legal, and Apple to follow up on compliance and technical requirement matters. • Marketing Liaison: Handled administrative coordination between Apple, marketing, and developers for multiple rounds of marketing deliverables. • Meeting Facilitation: Organised daily scrum and ensured clear communication across teams.

• Operations & Community Coordinator
  Koei Tecmo Singapore
  Jan 2021 – Dec 2023

  Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia (iOS, Android) • Live Operations Administration: Coordinated monthly update schedules and ensured SOP compliance for all public releases. • Community & PR Support: Assisted with drafting player communications, incident acknowledgements, and compensation notices, ensuring accurate timing and messaging. • Stakeholder Reporting: Prepared and submitted weekly KPI reports to senior management and external publisher stakeholders (Square Enix JP/USA). • Team Coordination: Guided junior team members through task specifications from planning through to release.

• Game Designer & Localisation Coordinator
  Koei Tecmo Singapore
  Aug 2015 – Dec 2020

  Various Live Operation Titles — Yahoo! モバゲ, mixi, gamecity, mobile • Localisation Scheduling: Independently managed external localisation and LQA schedules across multiple titles, ensuring on-time delivery of localised updates. • Vendor Communication: Coordinated with external translation and LQA teams, providing product briefings to resolve difficult translations and improve output quality. • Process Documentation: Documented game feature specifications and event plans for handoff to internal and external teams.

Education

• Project Management Professional Training
  Singapore Polytechnic, PACE Academy
  2023 – 2023
• Professional Certificate
  National University of Singapore
  UI & Interaction Design · 2022 – 2022
• Bachelor of Social Science (First Class Honours)
  National University of Singapore
  Sociology and Japanese Studies · 2008 – 2013

Skills

• Adobe Photoshop
• Multitasking
• Administrative Support
• DaVinci Resolve
• Confluence
• Onboarding
• Krita
• Microsoft Office
• Documentation
• Process Improvement
• Cross-cultural Communication
• Calendar management
• Organisation
• MS Teams
• HR Support
• Excel / Google Sheets
• Claude AI
• Trilingual Communication
• Hansoft
• Redmine

Projects

• Multilingual gaming YouTube channel
  Content creation, editorial planning, community engagement, video production

  Runs a multilingual gaming YouTube channel as a freelance content creator, managing editorial schedules, community engagement, and production independently.

Courses & certifications

• Project Management Professional Training · Singapore Polytechnic, PACE Academy · 2023
• Professional Certificate in AI & Machine Learning · National University of Singapore · 2023
• Professional Certificate in UI & Interaction Design · National University of Singapore · 2022

🗣️ Languages

• English · Fluent
• Japanese · Fluent
• Mandarin · Fluent

🎯 Hobbies & interests

• Getting to know People
• Video Games
• Cats