Matthew Spencer

Background: Multidisciplinary writer, editor, and proofreader with extensive experience across technical documentation, creative content, localization, and marketing. Adept at translating complex subject matter into concise, engaging, and audience-appropriate materials while maintaining brand voice and editorial precision.

Career highlights include:

• Serving as an in-house copyeditor for Paper Unicorn’s ongoing project, Kingdom Death: Phobia
• Leading a Quality Control team of generalist writers and reviewers at Mercor.
• Composing 30+ assembly manuals for PVC and resin miniatures at Into the Unknown as a technical writer.
• Composing over 200 internal company synopses for Milkfed Criminal Masterminds.
• At all positions, known for impeccable attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and the ability to deliver high-quality work under demanding deadlines.

Goal: To contribute to company-wide success by providing professional, prompt, and high-quality deliverables. Committed to fostering collaboration with management and peers, creating forward momentum, and ensuring that all content is clear, concise, accurate, and aligned with organizational objectives.

Strengths:

• Proofreading and editing for grammar, style, and clarity in technical, creative, and translated content.
• Adapting language for specific audiences, including simplifying complex or specialized subject matter.
• Interviewing experts and compiling research for accuracy and depth.
• Organizing and updating large-scale content databases and documentation.
• Implementing quality assurance processes to reduce errors and strengthen brand reputation.
• Collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams to maintain brand consistency and editorial excellence.

• Independently created and streamlined a system for submitting detailed synopses and publication market summaries for over two hundred published releases into a new database.
• Constructed dozens of internal deliverables for MPMR, including breakdowns of data entry positions and instructions, as well as an online database of all digital deliverables across internal employer systems.
• Collaborated with writing team in the development of two best-selling comic book releases: Kelly Sue DeConnick's Pretty Deadly and Matt Fraction's November.
• Submitted work for Into The Unknown Studio's upcoming TTRPG Kingdoms Forlorn.
• Offered services to Haxan Studio's Astro Inferno.

I am an avid creative who, among other things, works independently as a freelance technical writer for game design and production, a copy-editor for editorial and behind the scenes work, as well as varied gigs in editing, copy-editing and proofreading. My work also orbits around and often includes an intimate relationship with the creative elements of writing– including development of game design scenarios, problem-solving concepts and puzzles, and more. In addition, I am in the process of revision for a debut fiction novel, which I hope to shop for publication and release at the end of the year. 

EMPLOYMENT:

Elysia Avery, Senior Account Executive-Direct Sales at Ziply Fiber | Women of Ziply ERG-Vice President | 2025 Direct Sales Advisory Board | 2024 Circle of Excellence-Elite 8 Sales Professionals | Holistic Mentor & People Developer. (360) 843-0345

Marcin Wełnicki, Owner, Into the Unknown Studios, office@itustudio.com (Current Copyeditor)

Laurie, Owner/Operator at MPMR Medical Billing Services. (949) 413-5235 (Technical Writing Position)

Kelly Sue DeConnick, Co-Owner, Lead Writer, Milkfed Criminal Masterminds, Inc. (info@milkfed.us) (Assistant Editing Position)

EDUCATION:

Diana Schutz, Professor (Comic Studies) Portland State University: dias@pdx.edu

Kate Comer, Professor (Technical Writing, English Studies and Rhetoric) Portland State University: kcomer@pdx.edu

Katya Amato, Professor (Comic Studies, Ancient Languages) Portland State University: amatok@pdx.edu

Josh Epstein, Professor (Critical Theory, Media Studies) Portland State University: jepstein@pdx.edu