Management Project

Matt Mathews

E-mail: *******.**********@*****.***

PH: 512-***-****

URL: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-mathews/3/946/934/

Summary of Qualifications:

Sr. Project Management Cloud Consultant with over 19 years experience researching, architecting, automating &

developing complete IT/Media solutions designed to support all aspects of a business enterprise. A creative problem

solver passionate about delivering cutting edge technologies with a focus on Cloud technologies, Security, Virtualization,

Vulnerability Testing, Responsive Web, Mobile, Media, Video Games, Music, Video, ERP, POS, Social Media, Sales,

Business Development, Marketing, QA, Support, Testing & Monitoring. Thrives in start-up environments where flexibility,

agile thinking, accountability & entrepreneurial drive are keys to success.

Computer Experience:

Services: DevOps, Websphere, Citrix, BIOS, IIS, Apache, VOIP, Active Directory, SharePoint, SaaS, PaaS

Multimedia: Adobe Photoshop, Premier, After Effects, Flash, Dreamweaver, Windows Media Player, QuickTime, MP3.

Productivity: Load Runner, CVS, Bugzilla, Project Management, Agile, SCRUM, CMVC, Nagios, Skype, Office 365.

Development: Node.js, jQuery, Python, SaaS, JSON, AJAX, JavaScript, Zend, PERL, HTML5, XML, APIs

Database: DB2, SQL, MYSQL, Access, Oracle

Management: Jira, Bamboo, Cognos, GitHub, Puppet, Chef, SCCM, WSUS, Sugar, Salesforce

Web: PHP,CSS, Amazon EC2, S3 & SQS, Wordpress, Joomla, Magento, OpenCart, Drupal, MODx, SEO, SEM

Mobile: iOS, Android, Cocoa, Objective C, iPhone SDK

Social Media: Facebook API, Twittter API Bootstrap, Pinterest, Instagram

Client List:

The following is a list of clients Projects I’ve had the opportunity to work on:

GameStop (Project Management, Virtualized Gaming Research & Development Cloud)

Vertafore (Remote Citrix / WSUS Administration & Patch \ Cloud Architect)

Open Labs (UX/UI Design & Flash Player Action script 3.0 MODx CMS implementation)

Texas Restaurant Association (Project Management, Custom CMS Media Development)

Surgient, Inc (Virtualized Lab Management Applications/ Cloud)

Dell Factory Outlet Web (UX Testing of large web portal for internal & external customers)

Stream Search (Project Management, Pay per view Video Application Development & UI/UX Design)

Guardian Life Insurance (Websphere Project Management, UX Testing & Design)

US Bank (Online Billing, POS & Credit Card application processing)

Amicus Networks (UI/UX Design & Web Layout/Wire framing for the financial industry)

IBM HELP NOW (Test Team Lead for the Help Now Cloud helpdesk solution)

724 solutions (Project Management / Mobile Commerce Gateway Team)

BedandBreakast.com (New UI integration/ testing media rollout)

American Express (UX Testing & Validation for Amex One Card)

Current Professional Experience:

05/12 to present Sr. Project Managing Technical Consultant / Cloud Architect

INDE 5, LLC Austin, TX (consultant)

• Responisble for migrating existing cloud infrastructure.

• Became Subject Matter Expert (SME) & Mentored staff on new cloud technology.

• Utilized Puppet, Chef & Salt to configure & maintain servers.

• Maintained & Supported clients Cloud based, PaaS & SaaS

• Accessed code repositories via GitHub

• Architect, build, design & maintain large company Cloud infrastructure

• Utilized various deployment models for PaaS application availability

• R&D New Products viability (Technology, Retail & Wholesale) customers

• Built and maintained appropriate sales funnel of qualified large and small deals

• Automated deployment, management & updates for various real-time Cloud based SaaS applications.

• Configured Cognos for release management.

• Created & Managed IVR, VOIP & Dial by name directory

• Define troubleshooting methodology, testing scenarios & performance check-ups

• Communicate & Facilitate various project teams.

• Work with users to understand business requirements to create reporting or other solution specifications.

• BIOS level management, configuration & access.

• Experience with developing and supporting complex T-SQL-based business logic.

• Plan, Coordinate & Track various projects during full life cycle development

• Product research, evaluation, design & testing.

• Performed system updates by utilizing e-fixes Configured OSE Remote, Firewall, & Web server plug-in

• Provided technology assistance, mentoring & knowledge transfer for clients which included the DELL FO site

• Perform testing & development of PHP, ASP, Python & Action script code.

• Performed project management, documentation, planning and implementation services

• Formulating and creating MySQL database tables to store dynamic data for the Flash piece

• Developing PHP code to query the database and output the dynamic data as XML

• Extending the Flash Action script logic to retrieve this XML data, parse it, and display it within the Flash content

• Used PHP/MySQL to construct several web-based content-management applications, providing administrators

easy control over the content shown on their web site

• Formulated creative, effective concepts for deliverables to satisfy broad client demands and tight time/budget

constraints

• Managed and supported junior team members to guarantee on-time completion of project deliverables

• Investigated pervasive computing environments for mobile products

• UI/UX Design for Wholesale & Retail environments

• Developed multiple Sharepoint solutions

• Review customer architecture to provide best practices recommendation

02/12 to 05/12 Cloud Games Architect Cloud Gaming R&D & Proof Of Concept

GameStop Grapevine, TX (consultant)

• Utilized various methods of discovery, learning and innovation in order to create a live demo concept

• Researched and tested solutions for maintaining Game save states on diskless and virtual PC’s

• Architected PaaS deployment for high availability in private cloud.

• Performed test for viable solution to save and resume various Steam Powered Games

• Utilized Bamboo for release management & integration.

• Performed BIOS updates to enable installation of new customizations.

• Tested Portal 2, Microsoft Flight and other Steam Powered Games for resume functionality

• Managed automated deployments of real-time high available virtualized applications

• Performed scripting utilizing Python, PowerShell, Bash, and Perl

• Prepped images for deployment utilizing Windows Administration Kit

• Installed, administered, and maintained Windows Embedded Standard platform software on x86 based systems

• Experimented with building VHD images and various VHD boot strategies with Windows

• Architected solution for deployment in over 5,000 virtual machines.

• Analyzed various Cloud deployment methods.

• UX/UI Design, Validation & Testing for virtual gaming.

• Tested SCCM, Puppet & Chef for deployment management.

• Utilized knowledge of Windows administration for purposes of user profile management

• Created VHD’s utilizing Window embedded 7 for purposes of Virtualized Gaming

• Performed test on virtualized Games utilizing Spawn Labs gaming device

• Created test lab w/ Microsoft SCCM, System Center Virtual Machine Mgr, Citrix XenApp, & Xen Desktop

• Created various test scenarios utilizing Windows 7 embedded Streaming Disk images (VHD’s)

• Created diskless Cloud Cyber Café environment utilizing Smart Launch for Proof Of Concept,

• Installed configured Windows 7, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 7 Embedded Windows 8 for aspects of testing

• Managed image development using: ImageX, WAIK, DISM, WSIM.

• Configured PC’s for PXE booting over the network for testing purposes.

• Wireframe design prototypes to create customer experience.

12/09 to 10/11 Cloud Systems Consultant Remote WSUS Administration

Vertafore College Station, TX – Telecommute (consultant)

• Worked within Virtual Windows Server environment with over 900 servers and 1500+ VM’s

• Designed, implemented and maintained Microsoft WSUS infrastructure

• Responsible for patch management, testing and deployment of Microsoft updates.

• Day to day WSUS administration, monitoring and application support.

• Coordinated, planned & executed updates for over 2,500 VM’s in Hybrid Cloud.

• Configured various systems with a focus on securing clients Cloud applications.

• Validated current BIOS level on clients solutions & resolved conflicts.

• Performed cloud server migrations & decommissioned older virtual machines

• Created plan for updating clustered server environments

• Re-provisioned bare metal servers to Virtualized VM’s

• Tested Jenkins, Bamboo, Cognos & custom release management tools.

• Optimized & tuned client SaaS system for optimal bandwidth and high availability.

• UI/UX Mock-up design work for Producer Advantage

• Managed life cycle of applications and packages in the IT-Organization, together with the Network staff.

• Automated software provisioning, patch management and asset management using Python & WSUS.

• Supported and implemented WSUS enterprise architecture and site structure.

• Monitoring WSUS infrastructure, traffic, processes, capacity utilization, and performance.

• Resolved Citrix / WSUS related failures and initiating corrective or alternative actions.

• Regular synchronization and monitoring of updates

• Configure, packaged/deployed RHEL & Windows OS’s.

• Created solid deployment strategies for high available customer SasS systems.

• Verified server status after completion of update installation.

• Approved updates for deployment with Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)

• Implemented 3rd party patching via WSUS

• Created weekly update map, which showed virtual server groups being patched for the week.

• Manually logged into remote servers for patching, ensured completion, manually rebooted, test connectivity.

04/07 to 2/10 Senior Project Managing Consultant

Various Independent Projects Austin, TX

• Produced High Definition 1080p Video Streams for customer presentation.

• Create custom UI interface for data collection & e-commerce.

• Performed extensive ad-hoc, manual & regression & automated testing of IP Video to verify Packet Loss.

• Configured Citrix, VMware, IIS, MODx, Joomla, Wordpress, MySpace, Twitter & NING.

• Responsible for validating data on MSSQL & SQL solutions.

• Administered several e-commerce web sites based on IBM Websphere Application Server

07/06 to 04/07 Sr. Cloud Support Engineer Technical QA - Monitoring Engineer

Surgient, Inc Austin, TX (consultant)

• Monitored customer SaaS VMware solutions in Linux & Windows environments

• Tested Cloud Web application scalability and performance issues in Citrix / VMware environments.

• Utilized strong knowledge of network concepts and architecture including experience with network protocols

and architecture including Ethernet, TCP/IP, DHCP, WINS, DNS, SMTP, Active Directory.

• Resolved various monitoring alerts remotely via RDP, SSH & VPN access

• Utilized troubleshooting skills to maintain Surgients’ Virtual QA/ Test Lab Management System (VQMS), Virtual

Demo Management System (VDMS) & Virtual Training Management System (VTMS) environments

• Automated deployments on RED HAT ENTERPRISE & AIX systems

• Documented technical troubleshooting and or solutions in the Issue Tracking System to provide information for

technical quality improvement and future solutions assistance

• Performed scripting utilizing C#, Python, XML, VB, XSLT, Linux/Unix Shell, and Perl

• Performed critical analysis of product issues to determine whether they were product defects or issues resulting

from customer-specific configurations

• Monitored alert systems (often on-call) to respond to problems quickly, minimizing or preventing customer site

outages Responses included restarts of servers, restarts of services, and log analysis to identify root causes

• Experience in the deploying Linux, Windows XP, Windows 2000 systems on a enterprise scale

• Experience with Application system monitoring utilizing, Nagios and Syslog

• Resolved various space alerts on Linux VM’s to prevent deployment failures

• Performed troubleshooting tasks on software, hardware, and network defects in a distributed application

environment with complex messaging between components utilizing multiple network segments and servers

• Displayed a high level of personal integrity and the ability to excel in a team environment where trust,

commitment, healthy conflict and accountability are norms.

• Prototyped various Applications solutions for mobile & desktop utilizing Sharepoint.

• Resolved BIOS level conflicts & performed updates accordingly.

• Shared, learned and effectively applied diverse technical information available from technical documentation

• Resolved monitoring alerts for the entire customer environment, with over 3,000 Linux & Windows VM’s

Wireless Skill set: Manage product demonstrations thru full term. Responsible for the integration of MQSeries

technologies into the wireless platform. Analyzed company products for potential partnerships. Performed trade show

demonstrations. Conducted stress testing on wireless platform for potential weaknesses. Analyzed market trends for

future technologies. Created copy for product descriptions and technical documentation. Performed testing on Beta

products, Cell Phones & PDA's. Utilized the Nokia Development Kit. Tested application capabilities with Websphere

Commerce Suite. Built a test lab for Mobile Banking transactions.

09/99 to 12/99 Live Streaming Audio Video Developers

Stream Search St Louis, MO - Telecommute (consultant)

Responsible for designing, developing, a pay- per view video gateway for live media events for IPTV & Web. Extracting

mockup graphics from layered Photoshop files and importing them into the Flash IDE Configured various testing platforms

utilizing Linux, Unix & AIX Worked extensively with NetShow Server, Windows Media Player, Real Players, Vivo Active

Player & QuickTime Utilized TCL, Python, JavaScript, JAVA and DHTML to create solution Worked extensively with

development team to accomplish tasks Tested media presentation to gather statistics for billing Worked remotely on

development activities Researched Internet to provide direction for proposed solution provided direction for project and

coordinated events

07/99 to 09/99 Live Streaming Audio Video Event Developer Amicus

Networks Austin, Texas (consultant)

Responsible for designing, developing, and supporting live broadcast events of corporate shareholder meetings for the

Financial Industry. Analyzed the e-commerce capabilities and advised on technology selection and front-end/back-end

integration solutions. Tested an in house IPTV Web solution. Performed automated testing to evaluate Packet Loss, Feed

Quality & Error Rates. Integrated JavaScript, ASP, for commerce data and Windows Media Player and RealAudio and

Video feeds for streaming audio/video Developed a secure web presence with encrypted pages for posting externally.

11/98 to 07/99 E-Commerce QA Architect Websphere

IBM Global Services Nationwide USA (consultant)

Administered several e-commerce web sites based on IBM Websphere Application Server 20 and validated functionality

in JAVA, J2EE & ASP based SaaS Cloud solution Extensive Load Runner testing of front-end browser based applications

to insure compatibility with IE4, IE5 & Netscape browsers Configured HACMP for AIX which, provided facilities to

automatically detect hardware failures and reconfigure the cluster to provide a reliable application platform Wrote and

maintained HTML/Java code in JSP files to satisfy necessary changes to the site Constructed database tables and SQL

queries to store and retrieve user feedback data. Configured & clients BIOS. Developed custom dashboards and reports

for SLA’s, and OLA’s. Designed a variety of dynamic ad prototypes using Adobe Photoshop to attract traffic to our site.

Converted these dynamic ad designs from Photoshop images to HTML and, ultimately, to JSP Organized and

administered usability sessions with sample users to collect feedback on our site Interpreted user feedback and log

analysis reports to identify usability problems with our site and formulate solutions to these problems Gained, thorough

knowledge of open-source Java application frameworks. Developed and maintained custom Sharepoint applications.

Designed and developed new methods of integrating Multi-Media and streaming Audio/Video projects into web.

04/98-09/98 Complete MCSE Certification, Consulting/Web Design

11/97-03/98 Software Testing Validation Engineer Dell Computer Corp

12/96-10/97 EMC/EMI Engineering Testing Technician IBM

12/94-04/96 Engineering Assistant Fisher-Rosemount Systems

Education:

MCSE, Productivity Point International Austin, TX

BSCS CBM San Antonio, TX

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