Matt Charles

Clarify, organize, and weigh opportunities and risks for the business - and then drive the execution Create portfolio P&L visualizations to set targets and measure performance through a product cycle Spearhead & help establish a phase-gate framework containing core development & publishing milestone requirements across all organizational disciplines, including project greenlight procedures Shape the search & approval criteria for external projects and drive the bizdev & contract process Scale our teams & internal operations to handle all shapes of projects (premium, F2P, GaaS, PC/Console/Mobile/Streaming) Start & maintain great partner relationships Establish & perform portfolio management at various scales, including identification of enterprise-wide opportunities for OpEx & CapEx savings

Do whatever it takes to make Quake Champions a continued success, helping to drive strategic product-level decisions through implementation details. Identified business & creative opportunities, then drove the relevant design with the team to positively impact the projected P&L Directed the development team in response to emergent needs from strategic partnerships, customer feedback, and user research data to measurably improve the quality of the game Created clarity and transparency on multiple timeline tracks for the dev & and senior leadership teams Driven the development of the monetization strategy which has garnered positive press and customer feedback Developed a method to optimize global server costs, including a way to visualize global server coverage

Current project: Unannounced title Responsibilities: Set the project up for success & find the fun! Previous project: Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel Responsibilities: Created and ran the 6-month landing plan through ship.

Borderlands 2 & Post-launch development Responsible for creating and managing the development processes for large, multi-year projects. Accountable for balancing time, money, and scope as best as humanly possible. Translated and compiled ground-level items to high-level reports to executive management. Glued things together and made stuff happen.

Primary responsibilities included maintaining the schedules and ensuring that all team members have sufficient tasks. Managed localization, level design, and audio integration for Borderlands and 4 Borderlands Downloadable Content projects. Managed art and level design production for an unannounced AAA project, including optimizing art assets received from outsourcing for memory and performance. Wrote software to assist production, audio, and localization teams in daily tasks.

Created test maps for developers and QA to test existing and new systems and features. Wrote UnrealScript commandlets to help automate testing of in-game assets. Performed in-depth functional testing on all in-house variants of the UE3 Editor. Vetted art assets based on a set of functional criteria.

Served as a Referee and Assistant Referee for Allen and Plano Youth Soccer Associations from U-8 to U-18 age groups and adult women's league games. Key responsibilities were enforcing the laws of the game and having thick skin.

Specialized in 2D graphic design and level design for video games. Also fluent in Java and C#.