Gracie Arenas Strittmatter

Gracie Arenas Strittmatter is Supervising Director of Tiburon Technical Operations for EA SPORTS at Electronic Arts (EA) based in Austin, overseeing operational aspects of technical delivery for the Orlando-based EA SPORTS portfolio (Madden NFL, College Football, and PGA Tour Golf). With 15 years of tech art experience on AAA titles, she is passionate about leadership/career development, problem solving, programming, art tools, team building, and effective communication. As the first female university graduate in her family, Gracie is a champion of education. She is a global advisor for SOMOS EA (Hispanic/Latinx Employee Resource Group), a 20+ year volunteer with ACM SIGGRAPH, an industry board member for the Texas A&M Department of Visualization, a 2022 recipient of the HACR Young Hispanic Corporate Achiever Award, and a 2022 recipient of EA’s highest honor, the Purpose & Belief Award, for Culture Impact. She holds a BS, Computer Science and a MS, Visualization Sciences from Texas A&M.