Experienced Development Manager

Matthew Elliott

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Applications Development Manager expert in directing information technology organizations and leading application development teams. Skilled in all aspects of software development process from business concept and technical strategy through production, testing, and launch. Adept at organizational development and process improvement. Effective at anticipating industry trends and building cross-functional teams to exploit them.

- Technical & Business Strategy

- Project Planning & Management

- Organizational Leadership & Development

- Technical Documentation Writing

- Process & Procedure Improvement

- Emerging Technologies

- Business Development

- Software Architecture

Experience

Malenke Barnhart, Denver, Colorado

Development Manager

February 2007—Present

Direct rapidly growing web applications development organization in a leading interactive media and advertising agency. Develop technical strategy for client companies from small non-profit to multi-national corporations. Plan and manage technical projects, budgets, schedules, and workloads with cross-functional teams. Analyze business processes to devise and implement improvements.

- Identified need for a formal development process. Formulated and implemented the process in a phased approach streamlining the agency's performance, decreasing delay-causing rework, and improving quality of end-products.

- Led selection and adoption of tools to improve development team and agency efficiency including project/agency management, time-reporting, source/version control, documentation repository, and skillset tracking.

- Authored a comprehensive collection of Web Development Standards. Led adoption of the standards and subsequent oversight to ensure adherence. The standards have been a primary factor in multiple clients' decision to work with the agency.

- Oversaw doubling of development team size as reputation of technical capabilities grew. Responsible for recruiting and interviewing potential applications developers and software engineers and recommending hiring decisions.

- Worked with clients ranging from large (Qwest Communications) to small (Children's Museum of Denver), corporate (Fastsigns) to education (Westwood) to non-profit (Denver Zoo) to start-up (HomeAssume), and across industries including food service (Quizno's), travel (Visit Denver), entertainment (Disney), automotive (Ford), insurance (NetQuote), housing (Koelbel Co), and software (Webroot).

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington

Web Applications Developer

May 1999—February 2007

Assembled and led cross-functional web application development teams including oversight of design, content, and programming disciplines. Lead developer on all projects, implementing cutting-edge solutions in a broad spectrum of technologies ranging from open-source to the Microsoft stack. Met with clients to determine project requirements and devised strategy for technology implementations. Responsible for project management including budgeting, scheduling, workload-balancing, and quality assurance.

- Conceptualized and built a cutting-edge RSS/AJAX solution for aggregation and authoring of online newsletter. The application included a mobile component to reach company leaders via Blackberrys.

- Lead a cross-directorate initiative to consolidate all safety information in a single web-based portal. Organized and directed planning sessions with senior management and succeeded in gaining buy-in from disparate content owners. Implemented a modular application to aggregate safety-related information from sources and applications across the company. The portal helped lead the company to national recognition for safety performance by a National Laboratory.

- Participated in formal project and staff management programs including multiple software development life-cycle, PMI and company project management, and succession-planning programs.

- Managed a cross-country team while Chairing the Program Committee for the National Laboratories' annual web development conference, InterLab. Led cross-functional development team to assemble forward-thinking website for collecting and disseminating information from and to conference attendees. Executed the first multi-track, cross-disciplinary event in the conference's history.

Encore Digital Media, Denver, Colorado

Owner, Technology Strategist, Lead Developer

September 2001—Present

Demonstrated entrepreneurial spirit by starting a small digital media company initially to address technology limitations of the enrolled educational institution. Develop business opportunities; write and negotiate contracts with clients and contractors; and manage budgets, purchasing, and finances. Advise clients on technical strategy, build and implement custom solutions, and provide direction to contractors on design and development needs. In recent years, focused on providing services to non-profit organizations with limited budgets that might not otherwise have been able to be successful online.

- Advised university organizations on strategies for taking advantage of the Internet in the early years of its evolution.

- Developed ground-breaking web sites for university colleges and departments providing unparalleled access to news and curriculum information to students and community.

- Planned, built, and implemented online applications for non-profit and small, for-profit organizations to allow their participation in the modern technical world.

Education

Washington State University, Richland, Washington

Masters of Business Administration

July 2004—May 2006

Completed coursework in Management Information Systems, Business Law, Finance, Accounting, and Marketing.

Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana

Bachelors of Environmental Design, Graduated May 2003

August 1998—May 2003

Completed coursework in Computer Science, Professional Ethics, Community Design Studio, and an array of abstract and concrete arts.

Honed leadership skills serving in the Student Senate, residing as President of Kappa Kappa Psi, and leading the Spirit of the West Marching Band and MSU Athletic Bands as Drum Major.

Technologies

Microsoft: .NET (VB and C#), Microsoft SQL Server, IIS, Classic ASP

Open: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, (X)HTML, CSS, Apache, Joomla, Wordpress

Other Proprietary: Java, JSP, BEA WebLogic; Coldfusion, Fusebox, Kentico

Software: Windows, Linux, Mac; Office, Project, Visio, Visual Studio, Enterprise Manager, Internet Explorer, SharePoint; Eclipse, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Konqueror, Pidgin; Dreamweaver, Safari, Opera

Interests

An intrinsically-motivated individual that is fascinated by organizational leadership and people management. Strives for continuous self-improvement through life experiences, coursework, and reading. Takes pride in ability to learn from others to drive decision-making. Interested in technology—the web in particular—and prefers working in related fields. Constant learner motivated by the ever-changing nature of technology to stay ahead of the curve. Proud of quality of work including process, policy, strategy, development, documentation, planning, or leadership.

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