Software Engineer Project Manager

MATTHEW HENDERSON

**** ****** ***** ** ******, GEORGIA 30655

PHONE: 404-***-**** E-MAIL: ********@*****.***

TECHNICAL SKILLS

● Technical Project Management

● Requirements gathering and documentation

● Project planning flows

● Prototyping and user response, UI/UX design

● Agile/Scrum

● Java, Python, C++, C#, HTML, XML, Javascript, Typescript, Progress ABL

● Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Waystar Inc. – Atlanta, Georgia

Engineering Manager July 2022 – May 2023

● Manage day-to-day activities of engineering team

● Schedule projects and resources, monitor project timelines. Take accountability for project success or failure

● Motivate, coach, and guide team members

● Provide technical leadership with hands on development

● Discover needs of company and plan projects both short and long term to serve them

● Handle daily and weekly meetings both with engineering team and with other stakeholders

● Coordinate with other engineering managers to ensure smooth development of the larger product

Chick-fil-A – Atlanta, Georgia

Lead Software Engineer March 2021 – May 2022

● Engineering lead for treasury sphere

● Lead multiple small teams across a variety of projects while coordinating with other engineering leads

● Responsible for growth and development of team members as well as allocation of team members to appropriate projects

● Projects utilizing AWS, Rds, S3, Kubernetes

● Integration and scaling support for individual stores

● Integration and personal coordination with engineers at our third party delivery partners

● Responsible for automated reporting and accuracy checks on third party financials from taxes to commission rates

Veloxiti, Inc. – Alpharetta, Georgia

Project Manager and Senior Software Engineer May 2019 – Feb 2021

● Set team goals and organize team members and training towards these goals

● Software development from requirements gathering to prototype

● Aided in gaining funding for new project proposal

● Break down client requirements to recommend hardware as well as overall system design

● Tech Lead for DoD sponsored project

● Technical project manager for contracts exceeding $2 million Georgia Tech Research Institute – Atlanta, Georgia Research Scientist March 2018 – May 2019

● Information and Communications Laboratory

● Project Management

Saw through short term contracts exceeding $750,000

● Design and development of web interfaces for existing programs

● Measure, create, and counteract the use of various wave signals for disrupting communications

● Design of software architecture and development processes from the ground up for various projects

● Use of various methods to speed up existing runtimes for large operations by over 400%

● Software documentation and technical writing

● Maintain a DoD Secret level clearance

QAD – Peachtree Corners, Georgia

Software Engineer Feb 2016 – March 2018

● Development of both server side and front end logic for ERP requisitions module using Progress ABL, Javascript, and Java

● Uplift of existing product to a web-based system

Creating a bridge module to allow for new web-based functionality without breaking backwards compatibility

Developing generators to automate large portions of the uplift

Utilizing Typescript for front end logic development

● Worked remotely and in person with international teams using Agile methodology

● Served as a trainer for other dev teams

● Coordinated with other teams for product-wide releases and global updates Southern Cross – Peachtree Corners, Georgia

Technical Consultant May 2011 – Dec 2015

● Assisted with monitoring and cleaning incoming Excel data before creating client reports

● Developed multiple applications and scripts to assist in reading, writing, and modifying Excel spreadsheets and generating reports

● Created and maintained a secure Apache web server

● Assisted in troubleshooting and tech support

● Utilized Google Maps api for addressing services United States Navy

Machinist Mate 2nd Class November 2007 – December 2010

● Graduated nuclear training school in Charleston, South Carolina

● Served as a reactor plant mechanic and emergency welder on board a submarine PROJECTS

● Delivery Partner On-Demand reporting

o Coordination with api engineers at Uber Eats, Doordash, Grubhub o Reports scanned and compared against expected results to be sent out as a summary to the relevant business users

o AWS suite to run lambdas and delivery appropriate reports and storing relevant data

● ACH Payments

o Integration with Wells Fargo on a store by store level to automate the updates of our databases for ACH payments

o SFTP, data integration, AWS, Python lambdas, and a java api

● Offensive Cyber Project

o Saw new project through from funding proposal to initial prototyping for client. o Met with clients to get final requirements document accepted o Performed role as Chief Hardware Engineer and Tech Lead for software team

Lead initial hardware component research and purchase o Took responsibility to organize project development (AGILE/SCRUM) o Trained junior developers on both hardware and software libraries used o Moved into project management role after initial proposals were completed

● Worked with updating API layer and writing integration tests for large website redesign using Spring framework and utilizing functional programming paradigms

● Created in-house interface for communicating directly between various pieces of hardware

● Simulation of LTE networks and connection testing o Lead project as both technical project manager and team lead o Wrote software to allow testing of LTE connections under various levels of strain up to and including active jamming

o Assisted in creation of models to simulate effects of various terrains types on LTE signals and overlaid these with data on world maps o Hardware testing and configuration for simulated network

● Speed up various existing runtimes in math and processing heavy programs o Write in lower level languages to reduce overhead when millions of iterations are involved

o Use of CUDA to allow for utilization of GPU multithreading capabilities

● Uplift of existing EAM product from current client application to a web based service o Ongoing development of a bridge program to allow for accessing the legacy system without breaking backwards compatibility

o Full stack development using Progress ABL and datasets for the server, Java as the connecting system, and Javascript/Typescript as the client facing side

● Created module for governing requisitions and purchase orders in both UI and server layers

● Created an agent using Java for solving Raven’s Progressive Matrices problems o Capable of solving both verbal and visual problems o Incorporated multiple machine learning methods and algorithms o Agent learned as it progressed to select the best method/algorithm based on the problem

● Designed and tested a new social networking application for mobile and web, primarily from the perspective of UI design and consumer research methods

● Created custom search agents, utilizing both depth and breadth first searching algorithms, to traverse large data trees

o Combined with historical data sets to make accurate predictions based on large decision trees

EDUCATION

Kennesaw State University January 2019 – December 2020

● Master’s in Software Engineering

Non-Degree Coursework September 2018 – December 2018

● Operating systems design

● Image and Signal Analysis

Georgia Institute of Technology January 2012 – December 2015

● Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

● Specialization areas in Intelligence and People

Navy Nuclear Training Pipeline November 2007 – November 2009

● Certified mechanic and welder on nuclear plants by Nuclear Regulatory Commission Georgia Institute of Technology August 2005 – May 2007

● Aerospace Engineering major, Computer Science minor

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