Zachary Metcalf is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California with Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He has experience as a Junior Systems Programmer at Rockstar San Diego and has published two commercially released games. His experience includes work with game engines like Unreal and Unity, networking using TCP/IP and bandwidth optimization, and programming skills in C++, C#, Objective-C, and other languages. He also has experience as a teaching assistant and lab assistant for video game programming courses at USC.

1. Zachary Metcalf
• Email: zachmetcalf@gmail.com • Phone: (512) 426-6169 •
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/zachmetcalf/ • Website: http://www.zachmetcalfgames.com/ •
University of Southern California
M.S. in Computer Science Sum. 2015
B.S. in Electrical Engineering Spr. 2015
B.S. in Business Administration Fall 2014
Game Industry Experience & Project Highlights
Rockstar San Diego Sum. 2015—Pres.
Junior Systems Programmer
http://www.zachmetcalfgames.com—2 Commercially Published Games—See Website for Full Portfolio
Polyseum—Multiplayer, Team-Oriented First Person Shooter (Unreal & C++)—http://www.polyseum.com
Systems, Networked Gameplay, & Build Engineer
• USC Advanced Games Project—Shown at GDC 2015 & USC AGP Demo Day
• Setup Core Framework & Mentored for Networked Gameplay, Movement, and Weapons
• Utilized Networking Tool to Detect Latency & Profiler for Gameplay/Graphics Bottlenecks
• Implemented Client-Side Prediction, Optimized Replication & RPCs for Azure Dedicated Servers
• Master-Slave Jenkins CI Build Configuration for Deploying Cross-Platform Builds
• Added Custom Tag Buffer Render Target to Unreal Engine for Multiple Non-Occluding Player Outlines
SecondWind—Infinite-Runner, 2-D Side-Scrolling iOS Game, Cocos2d (Objective-C)
• Released to iTunes App Store—http://itunes.com/apps/zachmetcalf/secondwind
Bomb Bots Online—3D Top-Down Multiplayer iPad Arcade Game, Unity3D Mobile (Unity & C#)
• Released to iTunes App Store—http://itunes.com/apps/zachmetcalf/bombbotsonline
Academic Experience
USC Department of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology Program Spr. 2014—Spr. 2015
Teaching Assistant, Lab Assistant, & Grader
• Professor Sanjay Madhav—Video Game Programming
• Guest Lecturer for Networked Multiplayer in ITP380, Wrote Unreal Networking Guide
• Professor Joshua Glazer—Programming Game Engines
• Professor Mark Redekopp—Embedded Systems
Game Engines, Networking, & Programming Skills
Engines—SIMD (Intel SSE2), Multithreading, Cross-Platform Dev., Rendering & Shaders, Memory Allocators
Networking—Tribes Model (UDP), TCP/IP (WinSock & sys/socket), Bandwidth Optimization
Game Engines—Unreal Engine 4, Microsoft DirectX 9 & 11, Unity3D, Cocos2d, XNA & MonoGame
Software—C++ (Advanced), C, C#, Objective-C, HLSL, Python, ROS, Matlab, SQL & Databases, Scripting
Build Environments—Visual Studio & Windows, Xcode & iOS, UNIX & Linux, CMake & GCC
Hardware—Verilog HDL, ModelSim & Xilinx, Assembly ISAs (MIPs, Coldfire, Altera), Arduino & AVR, OS’s
Tools—Git, SVN, Perforce, Bitbucket, SourceTree, Jira & Agile/Scrum, Jenkins CI, Batch & Shell Scripting
Leadership Experience
President—Tau Beta Pi—Engineering Honor Society Spr. 2014—Spr. 2015
Vice President—IEEE—Eta Kappa Nu—Engineering Honor Society Spr. 2014—Spr. 2015