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 and later of FIFA.

Sigurlína Ingvarsdóttir
Born
Sigurlína Valgerður Ingvarsdóttir[1]

1978
NationalityIcelandic
OccupationSenior Producer at EA DICE [2]
Known forProducing Star Wars Battlefront[3][4]

Biography

Sigurlína graduated with a degree in industrial engineering from the University of Iceland in 2002.[1] Her first job was as project manager with the Activis pharmaceutical company.[1] Through friends working on EVE Online at CCP Games, she joined the company in 2006, rising to the level of senior producer.[3] After a spell with Ubisoft in 2011, in 2012 she joined DICE to coordinate Battlefront, which has enjoyed commercial success.[3][5][6]

After shipping Battlefront, she moved to Vancouver to become Senior Producer for FIFA.[7]

Sigurlína is a member of The Future Is Ours campaign, which is concerned with carbon emission levels.[8]

References
  1. "Sigurlína Valgerður Ingvarsdóttir". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). March 7, 2004. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
  2. Orland, Kyle (March 1, 2016). ""People will fall for it like a drug"—Game devs on the future of VR". Ars Technica. Retrieved June 8, 2019.
  3. Morris, Chris (September 22, 2015). "Meet the woman responsible for the year's biggest video game". Fortune. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
  4. Lawrence, Nathan (July 10, 2015). "Interview: DICE's Sigurlina Ingvarsdottir on Star Wars Battlefront". PC PowerPlay. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  5. Hansegard, Jens (November 15, 2015). "'Star Wars Battlefront' Game to Launch - WSJ". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
  6. Beres, Damon (November 12, 2015). "The Woman Behind The Game-Changing 'Star Wars Battlefront'". The Huffington Post. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
  7. Torfadótt, Magdalena Anna (June 23, 2018). "Úrvalsdeildin í tölvuleikjaiðnaði" [The premier league in the video game industry]. Viðskiptablaðið. Retrieved June 8, 2019.
  8. "Boomers and Millennials Have to Join Forces to Fight Climate Change". TIME. November 15, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
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