Matthew Williams' Resume (Last updated April 19th 2009)

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MATTHEW DAVID WILLIAMS

Palm Bay, Florida 32909 - United States
http://www.matthewdavidwilliams.com

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OBJECTIVE 

To explore new job opportunities that challenge and push my knowledge to the limits while actively keeping myself involved in the tech community through events and Open Source.

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EDUCATION 

Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida, March 2007 - TBD

Masters in Software Engineering

 

Morrisville State College, Morrisville, New York, August 2002 - May 2006

Bachelor in Technology in Network Administration, 3.13 Grade Point Average

 

Morrisville State College, Morrisville, New York, August 2002 - May 2004

AAS in Computer Information Systems, 3.06 Grade Point Average

 

Cisco's Networking Academy, Herkimer, New York, September 1999 - June 2002

 

Ilion Jr.-Sr. High School, Ilion, New York, September 1998 - June 2002

NY State Regents, High School Diploma in

 

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SKILLS 

Advanced
- Ruby on Rails
- Standards Compliant HTML
- Object Oriented Development
- Agile Development
- Relational Database Design Concepts

Intermediate
- Ruby
- PHP
- CSS

Basic
- Python
- ColdFusion
- Java
- Perl

Operating Systems
- OSX
- Linux
- Windows

Source Control
- Git
- Subversion

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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT 

Users Groups:
Orlando Ruby Users Group 2006, 2007, 2008 (http://www.orug.org)
Orlando Linux Users Group 2009
RANDOM 2009 (http://www.itsrandom.info)

Recent conferences attended:
RubyConf 2008 (http://www.rubyconf.org)
Acts_as_Conference 2008, 2009 (http://www.actsasconference.com)
IzeaFest 2008 (http://www.izeafest.com)
Ignite Orlando (presenter) 2009 (http://www.igniteorlando.com)
Barcamp Orlando 2007, 2008, 2009 (http://www.barcamporlando.org)

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PUBLICATIONS 

Ruby on Rails or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Web Application Testing - www.scribd.com/doc/248443/Ruby-on-Rails-or-How-I-Learned-to-Stop-Worrying-and-Love-Web-Application-Testing

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WORK EXPERIENCE 

SDC Hawaii - http://chi.mp, Palm Bay, FL (Telecommute)

January 2009

Rails Developer
Currently sharing the development responsibilities for our main product, chi.mp. Duties include development following a very agile process that utilize both Scrum and Test Driven Development. Feature implementation, bug fixing, refactoring and interacting with our user community are all part of my daily routine at chi.mp.

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Northrop Grumman Corporation, Melbourne, Florida

June 2006 - January 2009

Software Engineer 2
Designing and maintaining Oracle based applications. Creating user friendly web front ends to database applications. Rational ClearQuest support and tool development. Bringing news ideas to the table to assist with the migration of a legacy Oracle tool suite to a modern platform based on Open Source Software solutions (Ruby on Rails, Redmine, Git)

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Northrop Grumman Corporation, Melbourne, Florida

June 2005 - August 2005

Technical Intern
Worked with customers to develop an Oracle Forms based application with a web front end to maintain configuration details for a military aircraft currently in use by the United States Air Force.

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Northrop Grumman Corporation, Melbourne, Florida

June 2004 - August 2004

Technical Intern
Worked with a mentor in the development and documenting of Microsoft Access databases for various business needs.

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Hale Manufacturing Co., Frankfort, New York

June 2000 - August 2004

Systems Administrator
Administrator of the company network which included cabling and configuration of hardware. Managed users and other network hardware in a SCO Unix environment. Developed database applications using FilePro. Observed day to day business for the purpose of process improvement.

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