Matthew Robert McEachen

PO Box 2735 :: El Granada, CA 94018 :: :: http://matthew.mceachen.us/

• More than 10 years of professional development experience using Ruby on Rails and Java for object design and programming (j2se/j2ee), designing highly-available, multi-tenant web/SaaS applications, XML/SOAP/REST servers, and rich client applications, using JDBC/ORM or XML to interface to backing data stores
• Won the JavaOne Coding Challenge
• Excellent analytical and creative problem solving skills, both individually and as a member of a team
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• UI design/HCI for both web and rich client applications
  (HTML/DOM, jQuery, Ruby on Rails, Google Web Toolkit, Spring MVC, Java AWT/Swing, Macromedia Director)
• More than 10 years of professional development experience on Unix (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, Solaris), including shell scripting and administration/security hardening
• More than 10 years of professional development experience with RDBMS/ANSI-SQL (including MySQL and Sybase)
• Fluent in Perl and PHP
• More than 10 years of experience with Java Application Servers
  (Resin, Jetty, Weblogic, Tomcat, and others)

Employment

• Building things for Twitter on the Revenue team.

• Building AdGrok, a Y Combinator-backed startup producing an in-context analytics and advice engine to help people with their internet marketing efforts. Acquired by Twitter.

• Architect and implementor of Adchemy's initial pay-per-click bid management system, which included a patent-pending sparse-data analysis and estimation system.
• Architect and lead developer for Adchemy's flagship product, a multi-tenant software-as-a-service (SaaS) landing page optimizer leveraging regression analysis. The product is currently in closed beta.

• Lead and managed a team of 6 engineers in charge of CNET's product catalog.
• Adopted agile project methodologies that lead to a series of successfully launched, innovative projects that improve data quality and streamline business workflow.

• Lead developer for CNET's product catalog management tools. The tech stack used JSPs with DHTML and Hibernate O/RM
• Developed CNET's dual-level enterprise caching infrastructure that supported both bottom-up (JDBC ResultSet caching to a XML filestore) and top-down (In-memory caching of DAO-produced JavaBeans), significantly improving page-generation times and reducing database load.
• Developed the JavaCC grammar that powered CNET's faceted product navigation.
• Was one of the primary developers in charge of migrating CNET's 50Mb of internally-developed Java-based software from Weblogic/Solaris to Resin/Red Hat Linux in less than 2 months.

• Contract employment from 2000 - 2002 is through NetRequisite, an e-business consulting company that I co-founded.
• Designed and implemented much of Object Telemetry, a white-box enterprise performance monitoring toolset which was used as a critical differentiator in the crowded "boutique development" space.

• Developed the UI for CNET's Sales Force Automation tool for selling advertisments.

• As the engineering lead for Brodia's Consumer to Consumer Payments project, designed and implemented a Risk Management component, which provides a countermeasure for external fraud. The technology is patent pending.
• Designed an open-sourced library to provide the ability to partition an XML-parsing problem into discrete, reusable components, while still using SAX. The Brodia Tapestry team adopted the library for use in the presentation layer as well.
• Wrote the Transactor Wallet Servlet, and designed and wrote the underlying XML-encoded protocol, ClientXML.
• Wrote business layer objects for Brodia's Transactor Platform, including support objects for Visa's Three-D Secure Payer Authentication protocol.
• Researched, designed and implemented the cryptographic library and external interfaces to the library, which used the javax.crypto and java.security APIs for runtime-bound cryptographic providers (nCipher).

• As the senior engineer of Aria's Online Access engineering team, architected and implemented their "foundation" packages, providing common application services such as JDBC data object pooling, runtime-configurable data caching, system logging, and an xml-based data transport for communicating with the mainframe datastores.
• Provided the presentation layer team with an objectified view of the database tables required for the Online Access functionality.

• As a member of Bank of America's Online Banking engineering team, designed and wrote a number of application infrastructure components, including a generic resource pooling mechanism. Online Banking is a server-side Java2 application.
• Designed and instrumented a remote system monitoring framework used by Online Banking. SysMon, an RMI-enabled JFC/Swing application, can monitor any number of running Online Banking servers, gathering status and statistics for the self-descriptive Remote System Components currently being used by the server. SysMon can also render aggregate statistic graphs, showing both historical and real time data points for the monitored servers.
• Architected the object model for Online Banking's Bill Presentment functionality. Application writers interface with a clean, object-oriented "Bank Object" layer (like Customer, Payee, and Bill objects), which proxy to multiple authoritative data sources.

• Implemented three award-winning educational software products that teach literacy skills to young children.
• Wrote an extensive library of drag-and-drop "behaviors" using an object-oriented language designed for multimedia development. The behavior library allowed for rapid prototype and application development. Previous products had been implemented procedurally, and required engineering effort for all product changes.

• Designed and implemented licensing and installation of EnlightenDSM, which won UNIX Review's 1996 Outstanding System Administration Product of the Year. Installation was done through a Motif-based GUI. Licenses were granted through a web-based application and licenses branded in the binary coupled to the inode.
• Ported EnlightenDSM services to Windows NT 4.0 Server.
• Redesigned EnlightenDSM 2.0 GUI.
• Co-designed the corporate web presence, performed corporate system administration (email, web, ftp), and provided final-tier customer support.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of California, Santa Barbara & California State University, Hayward.

References are available upon request.