Matt's Resume

Summary

I’m passionate about technology and developing solutions to problems.  I see how technology changes the way we go about our everyday lives each year and I’m excited to position myself at the center of this innovation in years to come.  I’ve worked at one of the largest companies in the world and excelled professionally.  I currently work as an entrepreneur and freelance developer and absolutely love my job.

I believe in a healthy mix between adopting existing best practices and developing innovation solutions, businesses and technologies.  As a freelancer I believe that a lot of the development work ahead of us lays within spreading existing technologies across the web.  With technology, progress is made everyday, but we can also all benefit by taking advantage of what’s already being done well.  I also enjoying teaching and learning from clients I work with.

I can speak technology and manage development efforts as well as understand business needs and communicate with business stakeholders.  I’m especially good at playing a liaison role between the business and technical worlds.  I’m an experienced developer comfortable with a range of platforms and programming languages and I always look for opportunities to learn something new and expand my technical competency.  I’m working on my marketing and advertising skills as I struggle differentiating between features and benefits and I’m not a very good salesman (yet).

I am an entrepreneur at heart and a technology developer in practice. I look forward to talking with you if anything I’ve said here sounds interesting.

Education

Northeastern University Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration Concentrations: Management Information Systems & Entrepreneurship Honors: Consecutive Dean’s List Distinction, University Scholarship, GPA: 3.6	Boston , MA
Rockville High School Honors College Preparatory Curriculum, GPA: 3.8	Vernon , CT

Experience

TheIdeaStartup Co-Founder, Technology Working with other founder and advisors to develop business Responsible for managing development and production site Innovating new interfaces and business logic for proprietary financial engine	Somerville , MA 2006 – Present
Self-Employed Contractor Web Designer & Application Developer Built completely asynchronous site with custom front end javascript business logic and extensive email alert and notification functionality. Host and developed over a dozen client websites and web applications Created Sarbanes-Oxley compliance web application for client used to manage millions of dollars in customer risks while providing superior customer support and availability for the application Managing dedicated servers in a Class A datacenter to provide maximum client uptime and service Developed content management system with support for content types, classifications, separate presentation and navigation layers, e-Commerce, advanced security and more using cutting edge technologies; Rolled-out CMS system to multiple clients successfully Marketed services to local community to fulfill a need for low cost, professional web design. Designed websites and developed web applications in ASP and ASP.net for customers Created a collaboration and communication portal for clients with built in content management and CRM & CMS systems, Built online store and order tracking page in ASP	Ellington, CT July 2000 – Present
Procter & Gamble Program Manager CoOp, Program Management, Blades & Razors Learned Cost Reduction Processes, Team Structures, and Systems Tracked & Updated Cost Reduction program status across Global Organization Efficiently filled gaps between offline cost reduction commitments and records in system Created summary reports for top executives that showed fiscal and annual savings across organization Pitched and Sold (to Global Marketing) a cost reduction program that saved company $130,000 annually	Boston , MA August 2007 – October 2007
Procter & Gamble Project Lead, Initiative Success Development, Gillette Business Units Worked as a key Portfolio Management team member looking across multiple global business units and rolling out a standard new-product development process Developed and Implemented reports and systems and aligning them with business processes Created new product portfolio management tools (views) for global management of billion dollar businesses Trained multiple functions on new systems and processes on global scale	Boston , MA December 2006 – July 2007
The Gillette Company Project Lead, Promotions Management and Execution Worked as a project manager handling day to day promotional activity and new product launch promotions, inventories, and costs Managed & Collaborated with suppliers and vendors to deliver programs on-time and on-budget Managed 2006 Canadian promotional event “Cavalcade” to under 1% budget variance Member of System and Process team that drove the integration of Gillette’s promotions management and execution activities into P&G’s Customization and Promotions organizations Developed an XML/XSL reporting system as a proof of concept for new project reporting tool Developed and managed a display specifications database from concept through development, testing, and training. Efficiently rolled this system out to external vendors and key users. Created 2007 budgeting database and processes while defining best practices used in subsequent years	Boston , MA January 2006 – November 2006
The Hartford Financial Services Web Designer & Usability Engineer Enhanced design & usability skills through website prototyping and usability testing with business customers Earned recognition from a coworker and manager for delivering “The Hartford Experience” through work ethic	Hartford , CT April 2004 – August 2004

Volunteer Work

Campbell Concerts Developed new, content managed website with full e-Commerce and Web Community capabilities Transitioned existing ticket sales process into new e-Commerce site including ticket processing & payment Managed artwork, communication, and development of over a half dozen concert/event programs using Adobe InDesign. Delivered finished programs to local print vendor.	February 2005 – Present
CTHelpingHouston.com Helped to create local organization to collect school supplies for Houston School district in wake of Hurricane Katrina (specifically aided 10,000+ displaced students admitted to schools) Coordinated with National Guard, local churches, local schools, and community businesses to collect boxes, supplies etc. and coordinated volunteer driver schedule Sent a full tractor trailer full of school supplies to Houston , TX	September 2005
Movin’ With The Spirit Web Development Part-time work doing pro bono web design and development work for 501(c)3 organization Developed successful new website with interactive content, content management system, CRM system, and an administrative/collaborative portal for ministry members Created interactive “Online Community” with about 600 members with custom-developed forums, message boards, chat rooms, polls, an account login system, and article (content) management scripts; developed Microsoft SQL database to support this content	June 2002 – February 2005

Skills

Extensive technical skills in both hardware and software Operating Systems Mac OS; Win Vista, XP, Server 2003, Server 2008; Linux (various flavors); Physical & Virtual Environments; Mobile: Mac OS, Windows Mobile 5 Programming Languages Visual Studio, Asp.Net, C#, Classic ASP, JavaScript, CSS, XML/XSL, HTML, VB, SQL Networking TCP/IP, DNS, Active Directory, Exchange Server (inc. 2007), Sharepoint & Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server Database Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Microsoft Access Applications Mastery of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access, Publisher, Frontpage, Outlook/Entourage, Project, and Visio), Adobe CS4 Suite (Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver), Quicken & Quickbooks, Visual Studio, iWork, Google Apps Hardware skills Building & Maintaining PCs, Servers; Building, Maintaining, & Securing Ethernet and Wireless Networks

Non-technical skills include excellent communication, project and time management, and creativity in problem solving.  I look forward to challenges and learning opportunities.

Interests

World Travel, Photography, Guitar, Golf, Reading, Wikipedia, Eating New Foods

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