Developer Team Lead

Matthew C. Benson

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Seattle, Washington 98125

Phone: 559-***-****

Email: *********@*****.***

June 2009 - June 2010

Volt @ Microsoft

Redmond, Washington

Lead Test Associate

. June - Aug: Began working on Window 7 games, Forza 3, and Facebook,

LastFM, Twitter integration onto the Xbox 360 platform

. Sept - Jan: Started work on Crackdown 2, Microsoft Game Studio's

highest profile AAA title being released in the summer of 2010 and

became a Team Lead for Crackdown 2 over seeing and distributing tasks

for 5 test associates

. Mar - June: Promoted to Multiplayer Team Lead of Crackdown 2 and moved

buildings into the MP lab responsible for 15 test associates

Creating bandwidth limiting scenarios and gathering data to increase

playability and performance, cooperation and communication was essential in

order to be productive. Receiving daily tasks from the contacts ensuring

testers were on time, stayed on task and that their quality of work was

sustained at a high level at all times. These tests were crucial to the

success of the title in order for it to stay on schedule, pass

certification and make its release date. Through the collective work of the

Multiplayer Team, Crackdown 2 was able to pass Certification on the first

submission. Other responsibilities comprised of to the minute updates on

work results, creating overtime rosters and daily end of day reports.

June 2007 - September 2007

June 2008 - September 2008

Volt @ Microsoft

Redmond, Washington

Test Associate

. 2007 - Worked on Project Gotham Racing 4, Mass Effect, Viva Pinata:

Party Animals and Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties

. 2008 - Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Gears of War 2, and Fable II

Working in teams of six tested and aided in the development of software

numerous AAA software titles. Responsibilities included writing bugs for

projects having to deal with the severity of the bug, descriptions of the

issue occurring and the steps in order to reproduce the issue in order for

the developer to quickly recognize and correctly address the problem. In

the process became proficient in the use of a variety of test tools

including GTO Fusion, Swarm, Product and Visual studio.

June 2006 - September 2006

Tommy's Restaurant

Visalia, California

For a summer job to pay college expenses began working as a busser and

server having to deal with cleaning, setting tables, preparing work spaces.

Communication with the chefs, other wait staff and especially customers

was important in order to have lunch and dinner services in order to meet

and exceed the high expectations that each and every customer deserved.

Education:

. 2005-2009 - BA Political Science - University of Washington

. 2007-2009 - Theta Delta Chi - Standards Chair: Creating chore listings

twice a week insured that the house was maintained and cleaned in

order to attract potential rushes for the future sustainability of the

house.

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