Résumé
Matthew Cengia
They/Them/Theirs
Contact Details
| Email: | mattcen AT mattcen DOT com |
| Location: | Melbourne, Australia |
| Other: | @mattcen (LinkedIn/GitHub/Twitter) |
Personal Profile
I’m an enthusiastic polymath with a Computer Science degree and extensive sysadmin and communication skills. I crave variety, am passionate about social justice, and enjoy volunteering, teaching, and improving systems and processes.
Professional Skills
- Linux systems administration
- Web development
- Information security
- Project management
- Software release management
- Event planning
- Public speaking
- Community management
- Youth work
- Facilitation and moderation
- Diversity/Inclusion awareness
Career Summary
Product Owner and Scrum Master
Jan 2018 — Jun 2019
- Manage CKAN and Drupal websites for government agencies and companies
- Deploy initial system installation and regular security and feature upgrades to customer servers
- Gather requirements from clients and organise them into sprints for a team of developers
- Improve company culture to adapt to remote work environment by running team-building and social activities, and developing new communication guidelines
Support Engineer
Feb 2017 — Oct 2017
- Document company server infrastructure during on-boarding to assist in future employee on-boarding
- Triage third-level customer support issues, solving what I could and working with system engineers for everything else
- Debug issues with CalDAV, CardDAV, IMAP, SMTP, POP3, web UI, and other systems
Teacher
Jul 2016
- Run school holiday programme for children (5+ years)
- Teach online empathy, creative problem solving, team work, keyboard and mouse motor skills, physics, programming and other skills using computer games like Minecraft, Kerbal Space Program, and Factorio
Senior Systems Engineer
Jul 2008 — Feb 2016
- Build computer systems (both hardware and software) for various customers
- Develop, maintain, and release-manage PrisonPC
- Design security measures for systems used by prison inmates
- Configure and manage servers for email, web hosting, file and print sharing, backup solutions, IPTV, and network-booted Linux desktops
Tutor
Jul 2009 — Oct 2009
- Teach Web Programming students basic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP
Volunteer Summary
Deputy Chair
Apr 2018 — Jun 2020
- Develop a more diverse and inclusive GovHack logo
- Develop the MC script and manage AV for Red Carpet Awards evening
- Set direction for future of GovHack, maintaining focus on open data, innovation, and improving event accessibility
- Liaise with government and other sponsors to develop hackathon challenges
Facilitator and moderator
Aug 2016 — Present
- Organise and run in-person discussion groups on polyamory, consensual non-monogamy, and communication
- Moderate discussions on Facebook groups and manage arising conflicts
- Develop group guidelines and codes of conduct
- Train up new facilitators for our team
Scout leader and District Scout leader
Jul 2008 — Present
- Programme and run weeknight events for Scouts 11-15 years old
- Organise and run weekend camps for up to 100 people
- Lead 40 scouts at 10-day long Australian Scout Jamborees
- Facilitate and co-ordinate scout discussions at the 2014 and 2015 State Youth Forum to shape the future of Scouts Victoria, managing a team of other leaders in the process
- Train other scout leaders
Melbourne site team lead
Mar 2016 — Nov 2019
- Run weekend-long events for over 100 participants
- Organise venue hire, catering, budgeting, and sponsorship
- Liaise with local, state, and national teams and governments
- Manage a team of volunteers
- Make event accessible to participants of diverse backgrounds and abilities
Mentor
CSIRO STEM Professionals in Schools
Aug 2014 – Dec 2014
- Develop classroom programmes to teach ICT to students
- Introduce programming tools such as Raspberry Pi and MIT Scratch
- Run classes for students to teach the above
Ambassador/Board member
Oct 2014 — Aug 2017
- Organise and run weekly tech-related meet-ups, including venue hire, catering, and advertising
- Teach and find other speakers to present on openness as it applies to software, hardware, data, science, research, maps, government, and communities
- Run GovHack and HealthHack hackathons
- Organise and run two full-day Open Knowledge Australia mini-conferences at Linux.conf.au in 2016 and 2017
Education and Training
Certificate IV, Frontline management
Scouts Australia Institute of Training
2015
Bachelor of Computer Science
2008 — 2010
Publications
Technology Proficiencies
Languages
- Bash
- C
- CSS
- HTML
- Java
- JavaScript
- PHP
- Perl
- Python
Software & Tools
- AWS EC2/RDS
- Ansible
- Apache
- MySQL
- OpenLDAP
- Postfix
- Postgres
- Samba