Sigurlína Ingvarsdóttir

Sigurlína (Lína) Valgerður Ingvarsdóttir (born 1978) is an Icelandic engineer, project manager and video games specialist. Since 2012, working in Stockholm, Sweden, for EA DICE, she has coordinated the development of Star Wars Battlefront.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Biography

Born in 1978, Ingvarsdóttir first lived in Hafnarfjörður before moving to Reykjavík where she attended Ísaksskóla and later Langholtsskóla. She earned her high school matriculation from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1998. After working for the Reykjavík Theatre Company for a few months, she travelled with friends to Thailand and China. On her return, she embarked on engineering studies at Reykjavík University, graduating in industrial engineering in 2002. Her first job was as project manager with the Activis pharmaceutical company.[2]

Through friends working on EVE Online at CCP Games, she joined the company in 2006, rising to the level of senior producer. After a spell with Ubisoft in 2011, she joined DICE to coordinate Battlefront, which has become a huge success.[1]

Ingvardóttir is also a key member of The Future Is Ours campaign, which is concerned with carbon emission levels.[8] In December 2016, she was interviewed on the BBC's Click, discussing both video gaming developments and The Future is Ours.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Morris, Chris (22 September 2015). "Meet the woman responsible for the year's biggest video game: Sigurlina Ingvarsdottir is overseeing production of 'Star Wars Battlefront'". Fortune. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Sigurlína Valgerður Ingvarsdóttir" (in Icelandic). mbl.is. 7 March 2004. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Artificial Intelligence's threat to jobs". BBC. 7 December 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  4. ↑ Lawrence, Nathan (10 July 2015). "Interview: DICE's Sigurlina Ingvarsdottir on Star Wars Battlefront". PC Power Play. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  5. ↑ Hansegard, Jens (15 November 2015). "'Star Wars Battlefront' Game to Launch - WSJ". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  6. ↑ "Star Wars: Battlefront - Videointervista a Sigurlina Ingvarsdottir". Multiplayer.it. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  7. ↑ Beres, Damon (12 November 2015). "The Woman Behind The Game-Changing 'Star Wars Battlefront'". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  8. ↑ "The Future Is Ours: New campaign backed by youth activists, Nobel Laureates, award-winning actors and CEOs call for millennials to be 'at the table' when carbon emission caps are set". Business Wire. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
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