Matthew Fairfax Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA -- Washington, US

• Pivotal in every aspect of the designing and shipping Plants vs Zombies 3 – concepting, prototyping, pitching, pre-production, detailed design documentation, configuration, tutorialization, and leading full feature.
• In house expert on guiding players through the critical inflection points of their social journey from casual curiosity all the way to the deeply reliant relationships that are the lifeblood of long-lasting IPs
• Developed user stories and managed backlog in collaboration with other team leads to organize and plan sprints
• Led development pod to deliver consistently on complex, high risk features in the face of rapidly changing requirements and late breaking re-prioritizations from stakeholders. Collaborated closely with teammates to.
• Designed tutorial systems, oversaw implementation, organized and trained other designers and was the person primarily responsible for both script writing and hardening against unexpected player behavior. Actively.
• Drove cross-discipline efforts to build out powerful, flexible, and easy to use configuration pipelines with stringent data validation mechanisms enabling rapid, large scale and complex data changes with minimal risk

US

• Collaborated with product owners to design and implement new social features including a robust friends system, gifting, and the ability to see content built by other players
• Made extensive rewrites of existing systems to support live content and configuration pushes without requiring client updates – allowing for faster deployment, gameplay tuning, and monetization management
• Architected and implemented robust backend persistence system capable of handling a 100,000 DAU load
• Built localization tools to help ensure faster and more thorough coverage for all supported languages
• Rapidly prototyped new gameplay systems to help refine designs for the next generation of projects

Las Vegas, NV, US

• Primary driver of expanding, enhancing, polishing, and documenting the content pipeline – dramatically increasing developer productivity
• Defined technical and feature specifications while overseeing internal and external developer tasking and delivery
• Managed highly active community of developers – tracking feedback, capturing bug reports, integrating shared code, answering technical questions, writing documentation, building example projects, and collaborating on.
• Led major transition to new cross-platform, deferred rendering graphics engine – integrating and expanding internal R&D into a production usable system
• Responsible for the majority of the gameplay scripting on Marble Blast Ultra – with a focus on the new multiplayer modes and on broadening the accessibility of the game

• Worked closely with lead programmer and artists to port Think Tanks to Xbox Live Arcade by tuning gameplay code, fixing bugs, and tweaking level design
• Concepted and prototyped shooter style multiplayer sports game that later shipped as RokkitBall on InstantAction

Neunkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, DE

• CRM developer (Visual Basic.NET and VBA)
• Micosoft SQL Server Administrator (specializing in optimizing stored procedures)
• Data Analyst
• Network Administrator
• Desktop Support

• E-Commerce backend developer (VBScript and MySQL)
• Project Manager
• Network Administrator
• Exchange Administrator
• Desktop Support

Clemson, SC, US

• Novell Administrator
• Desktop Support
• Javascript and HTML developer