Engineer Project

Matthew Serle

406-***-****

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mattserle.com

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Experience

Oct 2010 – Current Amazon.com, Inc. Seattle, WA

Lead Ingestion Engineer, Amazon Digital Videogames

• Lead Ingestion Engineer on more than 200 games, ultimately releasing 98% of the

titles through an extensive, multi-stage process, executed through test cases and

with a collaboration of Amazon and publisher specific tools.

• Created and maintained relationships with triple A publishers (Electronic Arts,

Ubisoft, Sony Online, Atari, Squaresoft/Enix) on securing binaries, assets, and

descriptions to meet site launch release dates.

• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment while

prioritizing and managing multiple responsibilities

• Met Amazon and publisher game launch dates, promotion deadlines, and team

projected goals.

• Designed and built detail pages including: art assets (edited and created), detail

descriptions, and visual appeal for over 150 titles.

Apr 2010 – Oct 2010 Google Kirkland, WA

Visual Data Engineer

• Laid the ground work for two upcoming projects (NDA bound)

• Worked in a highly focused and productive team environment,

meeting tight deadlines while working within Linux and in-house tools.

• Quality Controlled software packages created by multiple team members

2008 – 2009 Endless Skies Portland, OR

Lead QA & Co-Lead Level Design

• Coordinated project goals with a project timeline including soft and hard

deadlines for my teams, tested game play, reported bugs, and fixed minor errors

working closely with coding, pipeline, and design teams

• Using the Unreal Editor, I designed the framework and oversaw all design

elements the team created; characters, level, story and layout, within a 6 month

deadline.

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Education

2005 – 2009 Art Institute of Portland Portland, OR

Bachelor of Fine Arts

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Skills

• In-house defect tracking tools

• Multiplatform compatibility testing

• Maya - Photoshop - Zbrush

• Unreal Editor - level and game design

• Python - scripting

• Excel - data and ingestion

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