Mathew Zummo
• LOCATION Tampa, FL • PHONE 352-***-**** • EMAIL adzek9@r.postjobfree.com
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Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience developing and maintaining medium & large-scale applications and infrastructure. I enjoy challenges, working towards goals and have worked in many different programming & work environments. Outside of day-to-day work I enjoy traveling/reading and researching new technologies to stay current. (I also dabble in System and Embedded Dev). I look forward to stepping into my new role.
• PHP 5/7 • Laravel/Zend/PhaIcon/Other • APIs: XML/JSON/SOAP/REST • Linux/BASH/WSL
• Python 2/3 • Mobile App Dev (Android/Cordova/iOS) • HTML5/CSS • MEAN/METEOR Stack
• jQuery/JavaScript ESx/NodeJS/TypeScript • Vue/React/Angular • Apache/NGINX
• MySQL/Postgres/Redis • Docker/Vagrant/Containers/Virtualization • AWS/GCloud/Azure/DO
• Java/C# • CI/CD: (Jenkins/TravisCI/CircleCl) • Chef/Puppet/DevOPs • d3js • GIT/SVN/Mercurial
• Project Management (JIRA/Agile-Scrum) • Unit Testing (PHPUnit/Moca) • IBM Watson http://Iinkedin.com/in/mathew-zummo
http://github.com/mzummo
http://mzummo.github.io
Freelance (Full Stack)
2021 – 2023
Currently working freelance, exploring new opportunities. My most recent contract was with a private-military contract and geo-spacial platform for the Malaysia area. MindEdge (PHP/Vue)
May 2020 – Jan 2021
MindEdge is an online education oriented software company (on the AWS stack) that has contracts with leading e-learning institutions, ex: snhu.org. As a full-stack software engineer I facilitated course work integration into e-learning providers/platforms; providing facilities for student/teacher/admin facing portals
(end-points) and their data-exchange via api with educational institution(s) business software (LMS, etc …) and other third-party solution providers. Presentr.me (PHP/Angular/NodeJS Phalcon)
Jan 2020 – May 2020
Presentr.me (on the AWS stack) is a public speaking-coaching startup, with a web and mobile platform for analyzing speech/voice & posture/video metrics, returning scores and offering tips for improving your skills. During my time there, I fixed several critical issues with their mobile and web platforms also adding features such as displaying uploaded content while practicing presentations (to closer emulate a real environment), made improvements to their audio scoring system and added new d3 charts for displaying analytics. I also provided support for the new developer, teaching and helping them learn the system(s) and how they interact. Freelance / Contractor (multiple-companies) (Phalcon/NodeJS) Jan 2018 – Nov/2019
Contract and local/remote for: Payrix/Scriptsender/SatProf/Freshinup. I have had the pleasure of working on short & mid-term duration projects (accelerating project delivery and fixing code-related issues) for payment systems, template systems, medical software, 3rd party API integrations, document management, OCR, and E- Learning/Education to highlight a few. I was given and executed on the opportunity to help these companies stay up to date with latest software architectures and deliver stable products/features in a timely manner. Developed primarily with Vue & Laravel/NodeJS, among a few other dev stacks and writing unit/acceptance tests to ensure code quality.
MyTrueserve / JJL Tech
Dec 2016 - Jan 2018
Rebuilt and re-engineered their legacy Mobile App for process serving with a new Cordova based Hybrid App (iOS & Android) and coded and deployed a new JSON REST-API in PHP with existing MySQL DB structure. Ongoing contract for support of systems and client requested changes. (Ended 2019)
- Worked on a Laravel 5 Web Application (Electronic-Document Filing) that interfaces with PBC Court Systems API (XML/SOAP).
- Trained new programmers and IT personnel.
- Implemented new internally hosted email system with webmail.
- DevOps & maintenance (Windows & Linux).
- Migrated Web Apps to Google Cloud Servers.
- Misc. programming tasks.
Trueserve SL (Cordova – Android & iOS):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jjltechnologies.trueserve.www Insight Global/Lexis Nexis
Nov 2014 - Dec 2016
Senior Software Engineer for a well-known and established global big-data and technology firm. I worked on several high-profile key products for primarily two divisions. For the RISK Division I developed and debugged Front-End
(JS/CSS/HTML) – (XML/XSLT). Working in tandem with QA, Design & fellow Developers to find and resolve issues and program planned features. I also had a hand in several Zend Framework Products, implementing new features and analytics; facilitated development with 3rd party companies and internal/external APIs (mostly REST and SOAP) in conjunction working with the DB, DevOps & Business teams. For the HPCC Systems division I worked on the team that developed a Charting/Visualization/Data Analytics framework used in internal and external products; also, helped implement the framework into new and existing Lexis Nexis & HPCC Cluster Data Analytics Applications
(Java/Tomcat, LAMP (Zend) & .NET). (Heavy d3js usage.)
- Worked with developers in different time zones and continents to meet common objectives.
- Created and updated documentation.
- Mix of environments (.NET/PHP/C++/Python/etc...) and development methodologies (Agile/Waterfall).
- Visualization Framework: http://github.com/hpcc-systems/Visualization JJLProcess
Nov 2011 – Sep 2017
Senior LAMP Engineer for litigation support company, with 120+ employees and 15 offices nationwide, responsible for all aspects of designing, debugging, maintaining web-application and mobile software for core business. Converting business ideas/technical requirements into code with scale and security in-mind.
JJLProcess’s core architecture and systems are extensively LAMP based. I developed and implemented their High Availability and Disaster Recovery System (Filesystem/SQL replication and DNS failover). During my time there I re-wrote many of the key systems including a DB connection class to handle load balancing and failover. I audited the system to improve performance by indexing MySQL, rewriting queries, improving database structure and moving to SSD storage.
- Developed native (JAVA) Android App (TrueServe Mobile) for employees in the field.
- Created custom auto data export system. File formats: CSV, XLS, YGC
& custom file formats.
- Developed dynamic court/legal document templates with auto data insertion
(HTML to PDF Libs).
- Re-wrote Google Maps Interface (Moved from V2 to V3 API). -
- Re-created route tracking/scoring system.
- Created custom portal for NY DCA to view/audit customer data.
- Created support and development ticket system later moved to JIRA.
-Created reports based around PHPExcel & charting library.
- Provided break/fix support to all areas of the system.
- Physical and Virtual Server migration to datacenter (co-location).
- UI (Bootstrap) design and implementation.
- Provided security fixes for web application and servers.
- Helped develop and maintain scanned document processing system. Libraries/Tools used: (Tesseract OCR/Barcodes, ImageMagick, SFTP/E-mail, and PDF libraries).
- Developed, implemented and wrote policies/procedures/documentation with IT director from Disaster Recovery to IT Operations.
- Worked with internal legal department for regular 3rd party audits of IT Systems.
- Linux Administration: server setup, maintenance; (NFS, SFTP, XEN/KVM, IPTABLES, Apache, MySQL, etc...)
- Worked on new JJL re-write/port to Laravel.
- Converted bare-metal KVM/XEN to Proxmox.
- Moved to Google Cloud.
Trueserve Mobile:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jjltechnologies.trueserve Independent Contractor & SMDNOW
May 2008 – Oct 2011
Developed various web and software solutions and provided administration of computer systems for RSS Labs, Linkscape, and US Coverage. At Linkscape: I had the opportunity to co-develop technologies and a platform for tracking, monitoring, and supporting their Satellite Modem (VSAT) Internet Service for Ultra High-End Luxury Yachts ($20M+). These systems were developed extensively in Python. Both the modem and backend systems were powered by Linux.
At SMDNOW:
- Developing marine life tagging and tracking application for customer.
- Helped develop complex SQL queries for customer applications.
- Provided Linux/MYSQL/PHP support.
Entertainment Benefits Group
Feb 2006 – May 2008
Windows & Linux System Administrator (DevOps) for ecommerce travel company with 50+ employees and $100M revenue. eSchool Solutions
Jul 2005 – Jan 2006
Built servers, created documentation, and provided support for software firm in education market with custom solution for school districts nation-wide.