Intern at Knewton and Crispy Gamer
Greater New York City Area
- Current
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- Intern at Crispy Gamer
- Intern / QA Tester at Knewton
- Past
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- Assistant Designer at 1st Playable Productions
- Theatre Technical Assistant at New York University
- QA Tester / Intern at Large Animal Games
- QA Tester at Vicarious Visions
- Assistant Technical Director at Cohoes Music Hall
- Student Technical Assistant at New York University
- Research Intern (Summer Position) at Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities
- Programming Teaching Assistant at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Orientation Leader at New York University: Gallatin
- Education
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- New York University
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Matt Nolin’s Summary
I'm interested in any job environment with a great group of people that allows me to develop my skills and have an impact on the company and its products.
Historically I've been particularly interested in game design & development, new media design and development and user experience / UI design in both of these areas as well as others.
Matt Nolin’s Specialties:
HTML, Java, CSS, Javascript, Visual Basic, Python, ActionScript 3, XNA, PHP, MySQL, UNIX (vi as well), theater management & production
Matt Nolin’s Experience
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Intern
Crispy Gamer
(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
Currently I'm managing the facebook and twitter identities for CG as well as keeping game page info up to date with new games / new media assets
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Intern / QA Tester
Knewton
(E-Learning industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Beyond testing our platform I’ve worked on various projects including: helping our video editor organize our collection of concept videos, creating a graphical representation of students progress via an open source graphs tool, designed selenium testing scripts to help facilitate a smoother development.
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Assistant Designer
1st Playable Productions
(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)
June 2009 — September 2009 (4 months)
I worked on several DS games specifically focused on kids although most of my time was spent on the Possible Worlds educational research project (http://possibleworlds.edc.org/) where I designed sections of the game and then prototyped them in Game Maker/Flash.
I also helped organize & run the Games in Education conference (http://gamesineducation.org/), one idea I followed through on was to reach out to local school districts directly (the first time we had done so) and create a database of their information to easily contact them for future conferences. -
Theatre Technical Assistant
New York University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
September 2008 — May 2009 (9 months)
I perform a wide array of activities for the Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, ranging from focusing lights, running crew for performances, to operating the light/sound boards.
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QA Tester / Intern
Large Animal Games
(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)
September 2008 — October 2008 (2 months)
I helped to test their Facebook games, Bumper Stars, Lucky Strike Bowling and Bananagrams.
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QA Tester
Vicarious Visions
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; ATVI; Computer Games industry)
June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)
I tested Guitar Hero: World Tour for the Wii and reported bugs / suggested features to the developers.
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Assistant Technical Director
Cohoes Music Hall
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)
October 2005 — February 2008 (2 years 5 months)
Helped build Annie, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Kiss Me Kate, La Cage Aux Folles, Les Misérables and La Cage Aux Folles (The Revival)
Worked the fly system for Annie, Kiss Me Kate, La Cage Aux Folles and the revival (Fly Captain)
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Student Technical Assistant
New York University
(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
October 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 3 months)
Answer telephone and walk-in questions, work on configuring systems for our wireless network, work on new projects such as ALEX (Advanced Learning Exchanger), Lyris Lists and Blogs through NYU.
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Research Intern (Summer Position)
Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)
July 2004 — August 2007 (3 years 2 months)
Worked on various projects around the office, excel worksheets, put together Higher Education Committee agendas, worked with StateWatch on projects, upgrade computers as necessary, install new computers to the network (Mac and PC environment), and create documentation for new users.
Worked on a RFP process that cIcu is working on with SUNY (http://www.knowledge4ny.org/), was heavily involed with the RFP process last summer in many aspects. -
Programming Teaching Assistant
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Games industry)
July 2007 — July 2007 (1 month)
Worked with teams of students during the "Video Game Academy" sessions to help them learn Python and PyGame and to put together their final project (a week spent on creating their own original video game with Python and PyGame)
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Orientation Leader
New York University: Gallatin
(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)
June 2007 — June 2007 (1 month)
Helped to welcome students to the Gallatin School at New York University for their upcoming freshman year. Worked with students and their advisers to help get them acclimated to the city and get registered for classes, also helped to plan events to keep them entertained and occupied.
Matt Nolin’s Education
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New York University
BA , Video games and New Media , 2006 — 2010 (expected)
Two semesters of Mandarin, one semester abroad in Shanghai, China
- Activities and Societies:
- Gallatin Student Council, Gallatin Theatre Troupe, Junior Class Council, Gallatin Orientation Leader, Dean's Team for Recruitment
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Matt Nolin’s Interests:
technology, athletics (soccer and ultimate frisbee are my main loves), community theatre, travel, video games, new media, people and networking, learning
Matt Nolin’s Groups:
IGDA
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Cohoes Music Hall
Matt Nolin’s Honors:
Elliot Spitzer Triple "C" Award for Courage, Character, Commitment in 2005
Cohoes Rotary Club - Frank Hines Memorial Award (Service Above Self) for:
Leadership and Involvement in School and Community Activities on July 6, 2006
Cohoes Rotary Club - Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Achievement:
in Character on May 31,2006
Cohoes High School Alumni Assn:
Mildred Donk Class of 1948 Math Award in 2006
Rochester Institute of Technology: Computing Medal in 2005
