Matthew Cech Email & Phone Number

Hunt Valley, Maryland, Us

Working on an unannounced project

Developed and shipped mobile-first puzzle game on Google Play and itch.io. Implemented various game-play features, game modes, levels, and level editing tools. Drove original phaser.js prototype from unity technical project design through ship. Coordinated external testing.Shipped competitive clicker Unity game on itch.io. Implemented general game-play, as well as online high-scores system using Node.js and NGINX, hosted by DigitalOcean. Also responsible for coordinating with external contributors.Developed and continue to maintain “ASCIIPlayer”, a lightweight command line auto player and visualizer tool written in C++ using FMOD for Windows Desktop.

Seattle, Wa, Us

I created and executed on career growth and development plans for my reports in the form of 1:1s, reviews, gap analysis, goal setting, and more while working to provide consistent support for their own personal direction. My team size has fallen within the range of 5 to 8, and I coordinate a wide range of disciplines and engineers as part of my day to day. These interactions aren't just local, and involve managing task and deliverable ingress and egress from contractors around the world. My responsibilities have also included working with reports and other leadership to identify and resolve process gaps and workflow issues, and helping drive a culture of of engineering excellence with the goals of reducing reduce regression rates and promote general codebase maintainability.This isn't to say I stay out of the project entirely - I've continue to individually contribute code to the project by handling smaller tasks and bugs. This helps me maintain up-to-date knowledge of the codebase so I can communicate my directs' tasks and their requirements more effectively.

Seattle, Wa, Us

I worked on Kerbal Space Program 2 post acquisition, developing and delivering a variety of tools and systems both in line with my previous work on the in-game building tool for players and the like, tho grew into laying the foundations for a variety of systems from an in-game scaled down map to input and state management.

My primary role at the company was working on Kerbal Space Program 2. I've worn many hats, doing everything from reducing designer iteration time to improving asset management, wrangling dynamic scripting features, improving QA bug reproduction, chewing on serialization, and more! The two sections I've been most involved in are an in-game player-facing content editor called the VAB, and the game loading and startup flow!

Redmond, Wa, Us

I create and develop features for DragonDrop, an educational IDE used to make programming more accessible for kids and teens! This software is used during summer teaching sessions, and by students who have previously attended them, allowing for block based game and arduino programming.

Redmond, Wa, Us

Teaching assistant for the "Computer Networks 1: Interprocess Communication", "Computer Networks 2", and "User Interface and User Experience Design" classes at DigiPen.The networking class and its followup are focused on introducing distributed computing and network security concerns, along with providing practical experience. The class covers C/C++ networking fundamentals, the followup covering NodeJS and AWS management while requiring students to implement a networked game. I work with students to ensure they have an understanding of networking fundamentals and course content, providing one-on-one assistance.User Interface and User Experience Design focuses on creating accessible and approachable interfaces, and I assist students with mockup and web projects, along with providing curriculum review.

Redmond, Wa, Us

Developed and taught introductory programming curriculum to children in 4rd to 7th grade. Managed classroom environments of roughly 20 students and 3 to 4 assistants to provide personalized education on a small-group basis.

Create educational curriculum in tandem which used games in a psychiatric field to assist with teaching social skills, and provided corresponding hardware solutions.

Acquired customer service and customer interaction experience, and gained additional computer software and hardware troubleshooting experience.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

High School Diploma, General High School