Software Development / Engineering Professional

MATTHEW DOREMUS

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Wilmington, MA **887

Ph: 978-***-****

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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT / ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL

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Hands-on technology leader with extensive experience developing,

architecting and managing large-scale, high-quality business

applications that significantly improved customer acquisition,

retention and satisfaction. Strong combination of technical

maturity, business savvy and entrepreneurial drive.

-> Multi-platform background; experienced in building and

supporting mission-critical n-tier applications, web

applications, distributed systems, hosted applications and

fault-tolerant systems.

-> Knowledge of software development best practices and

methodologies, including Agile.

-> Deep understanding of emerging technologies and trends.

Provide overall leadership, vision, direction and strategy to

developers, QA and business analysts, gaining trust of technical

teams while ensuring business objectives and customer

expectations are met. Keen ability to grasp precisely what

customers want and develop innovative, quality-focused solutions

in a time efficient and cost effective manner.

Key strengths:

Large-Scale Software Product Development... Distributed Onshore /

Offshore Team Management... Project Planning & Management...

Budget Planning... Resource Allocation & Management... Product

Quality Assurance... Hands-on Coding... Architecture... Executive

Presentations

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Network Engines, Inc. - Canton, MA

2007 to 2009

(Leading provider of application deployment platforms,

appliances and services for OEMs, ISVs and service providers;

$190 million in annual revenue)

Investigated and proposed product and service offerings which

have significantly increased new customer acquisition, existing

customer retention and profit margin.

Chief Architect – Advanced Technology Group

Hired to work with CTO and other members of the executive team

on investigating new and emerging technologies such as SaaS,

distributed computing, and cloud computing with the goal of

transitioning company from an integrator business model to a

solution-based service provider. Developed proofs of concept and

presented proofs to key customers and at conferences and trade

shows. Provided guidance to software and hardware engineering to

create appropriate technical solutions to meet customer and

business needs. Led and mentored 5-8 software, release and QA

engineers to champion adoption of open source technologies.

-> Created proofs of concept around a multi-platform strategy,

multi appliance console, and SaaS using a wide range of

technologies (C/C++, Apache, Lighttpd, Php, Python, HTML,

CSS, Ajax, XML, HTTP, SSL and MySQL) on both Linux and Windows

platforms. These proofs of concepts have resulted in: (1) a

ported solution to Linux and (2) a multi-appliance console, which

has enabled the acquisition of new customers along with

recognition in Gartner's 'Cool Vendors in Infrastructure

Appliances', 2008 report.

-> Researched and recommended creation of a multi-platform

product to capture customers using Linux. Established the

strategy and technologies and worked with/mentored engineers on

using Open Source. Conducted technical due diligence around an

OEM partnership with rPath, which was approved and signed.

Company secured 5-8 new customers immediately as a result.

-> Designed and developed the SaaS server component for product

updates, which provides 24x7 support for globally distributed

customer appliances. The update server integrates with the

corporate back office using DTS, SSIS, and ODBC to provide

proactive support for appliances as they are shipped.

Principal Technology Group, Inc. - Burlington, MA

2004 to 2007

(Software engineering consulting firm)

Founder / Principal Consultant

Launched software engineering consulting firm providing software

engineering services to small and medium software companies or

enterprise customers who had ongoing software development

projects. Interfaced directly with customers to establish and

refine project requirements and deliverables, as well as

coordinate and participate in the development process. Managed

and coordinated all phases of software development, including

roadmap planning, geographically distributed development,

project planning, scheduling, resource tracking and risk

analysis. Select client projects include:

-> Established strategic partnership with Hewlett Packard to

provide software engineering services for HP's OpenVMS customers

running on the VAX, Alpha and Itanium platforms. Services

included development, porting and migration, along with support,

of OpenVMS products and applications. Partnership resulted in an

~20% faster time to completion and market for OpenVMS customers.

-> Established and managed offshore development partnerships

in India to develop and maintain web applications using Tomcat,

JSP, PHP, Perl, and MySQL on Linux and Windows platforms for 3

companies: National Traffic Consultants, Global Awakening, and

Cherry Planet.

-> Worked with a development team at Oracle to support the Oracle

10G2 build, development and QA groups in a large Tru64 Unix and

OpenVMS Alpha/Itanium cluster. Support was provided by developing

web-based applications to integrate with the Oracle database back

end, allowing Oracle to more effectively manage and control their

build environment. Developed, maintained and enhanced virtual

porting environment (VPE) written in C/C++, PHP, Java & PL/SQL.

-> Contracted by Teradyne to manage the ongoing development and

maintenance of their $100 million in-house developed MRP business

application product. Led 5-member onsite and offshore team of

developers and QA analysts on gathering and implementing business

requirements and translating those requirements into project and

functional specs that would then be developed by the offshore

team using COBOL, Visual Basic, Oracle Forms, PL/SQL and Oracle

DB. Implemented major enhancements to facilitate international

movement of inventory for sale, storage and repair.

-> Also at Teradyne: Planned and assisted in the implementation

of BMC's Control-M job scheduling product to replace existing

legacy implementations across multiple platforms. Determined

feasibility of using Control-M in the MRP environment and put

together an implementation plan for the onshore/offshore team to

implement the product. Completed implementation with no business

interruption.

Digital Equipment Corp. (acquired by Compaq which was acquired

by HP) - Nashua, NH

1995 to 2005

(Computer manufacturers)

Software Engineer (Contractor)

Provided engineering support for the base operating system, from

a development/enhancement and bug fixing standpoint with the

goal of enhancing the current product set, leveraging existing

customer/partner relationships and garnering new customers/

partners. Worked on OpenVMS Mail rewrite team and performed bug

fixing for DCL and DCL utilities. All projects required extensive

use of C, as well as Posix and kernel multi-threading technology.

Project highlights include:

-> On loan to Oracle Corp. in 2002.

* Worked as an individual contributor in porting Oracle CDD

from VAX to Alpha & IA64 architectures.

* Member of team porting Oracle Rdb & SQL from Alpha to

IA64 architecture developing primarily in C/C++, Bliss

and Macro Assembler.

-> Worked on Extended File Support (XFS) team to implement On-

Disk-Structure 5 (ODS-5) and provide support for Backup, DCL, and

DCL utilities. Worked at the volume file system level to extend

the file name size throughout the entire operating system. Wrote

the components at the OS level. Provided extended file name

support from 78 byte file name size to an 8k file name size.

-> Member of Secure Web Server (SWS) team tasked with porting

core Apache components, as well as Secure Socket Layer (SSL)

technology. Worked as an individual contributor to port the

Apache 2.0 and PHP 4.3 to the OpenVMS platform. Process required

extensive work in C/C++ and included interaction with the Apache

Software Foundation (ASF), as well as other open source projects.

-> Individual contributor on assignment to port the MIT Kerberos

V5 client and server software and GSS API to OpenVMS. This

enabled the Swiss stock exchange (a key DEC customer) to leave

their Solaris platform for an OpenVMS platform, which reduced the

support and maintenance costs required in their multi-platform

environment.

-> In partnership with a peer engineer, enhanced and supported

OpenVMS Registry client and server software in support of the

Microsoft partnership for extending Windows operability across

multiple platforms.

Arkwright Mutual Insurance - Waltham, MA

1992 to 1995

(Property/casualty insurance company)

Database Analyst / Lead Programmer Analyst

Developed and designed logical and physical models for database

systems used for risk assessments, rating analyses and other

insurance related data management and analysis tasks. Maintained,

developed and tuned large production Rdb databases in a

distributed VMS environment.

-> Provided logical data for the first-in-industry Nat Cat

System (natural catastrophe system) product, which was featured

in several industry trade publications.

Earlier experience as a Programmer / Analyst with the Faxon

Company and Liberty Mutual Insurance.

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EDUCATION / ADDITIONAL

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University of Massachusetts - Boston, Massachusetts

Bachelor of Arts, Applied Math

Board of Directors member: Intelligent Career Group, LLC

Provide technical leadership for enhancing and maintaining

company's web-based products/solutions.

-> Reduced costs by establishing/directing offshore development

efforts.

Technical expertise:

Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows, OpenVMS, MVS

Languages: C/C++, PHP, Perl, Javascript, Ajax, Java, PL/SQL,

Conary, Python, Visual Basic, COBOL

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, DECnet, ODBC, OCI, SSO

Products/Technologies: VMWare, rPath rBuilder, SaaS, Cloud

Computing, UML

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