Matthew Robert McEachen

PO Box 2735 :: El Granada, CA 94018 :: (650) 255-4949 :: :: http://matthew.mceachen.us/

• More than 10 years of professional development experience using 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, 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, and want to spend more quality time with scala, ruby and python.
• More than 10 years of experience with Java Application Servers
  (Resin, Jetty, Weblogic, Tomcat, and others)

Employment

• 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) recommendation system 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 PAM, one of CNET's product catalog management tools. PAM is comprised of more than 50 JSPs and more than 150 supporting classes. Developed and maintained all three tiers of the application: Sybase stored procedures, data access and business logic classes (which use both JDBC and Hibernate O/RM), as well as the presentation layer (which use JSP/DHTML/DOM/CSS2).
• 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 a JavaCC grammar and supporting classes which allow business users to define complicated yet humanly-readable product filters which are used to populate CNET's extensive product catalog heirarchy.
• 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. Wrote RPM specfiles to package up much of the Java codebase. Migrated the data access layer from using Weblogic-provided database connections to using dbcp. Gave an "RPM howto" chalk-talk to all CNET developers, and wrote extensive internal documentation (using FAQ-o-matic) to help other developers with the migration effort.

• Designed and implemented JFC/Swing components and data access objects for CNET's new Sales Force Automation tool. Interfacing to the Oracle database was done through JDBC calls and a JPublisher-provided data access layer.
• Wrote the cross-platform build and installation facility using Perl and Java WebStart/JNLP. Installations of SFA are automatically upgraded to the latest version through JNLP, which minimizes CNET's IT ongoing support and maintenance costs.

• 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.