Matt Williams

184 Kent Avenue, Apartment B304
Brooklyn, NY USA 11211

+1 (917) 284.8459 - voice

matt@mattwilliamsnyc.com
http://mattwilliamsnyc.com

Summary

Experienced OOP developer with particular expertise in PHP and RESTful web
services. Critical thinker with a proven ability to analyze business
requirements and deliver innovative solutions that are reliable, scalable and
maintainable. Strong communicator with a history of success as both an
independent developer and a member of a team. Successful strategist with an eye
for maximizing business value and minimizing maintenance costs by building
systems that are well designed, well documented, and reusable for meeting
long-term as well as short-term goals.

Experience

Software Architect, 360i
New York, NY, 2009-08 - Present

Software Architect, Arc 90, Inc.
New York, NY, 2008-02 - 2009-08

Architected and built an MVC framework extending Zend Framework (PHP5) for rapid
application development. Designed, authored, and documented multiple RESTful web
services and clients in the context of an SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
platform. Publicly released several PHP client libraries for external web
services (e.g. Twitter, Best Buy Remix, Yammer). Designed and implemented
relational databases using SQL Server 2005 (stored procedures, XML / XQuery),
and MySQL. Led and managed a team of communications specialists in technical
documentation efforts.

Web Developer, NYU College of Dentistry
New York, NY, 2006-05 - 2008-01

Developed a custom application development framework (PHP5). Designed and
implemented relational databases using MySQL with localized application-level
user access. Advocated and won support for standardized development tools,
including source code control (Subversion), and shared libraries (e.g. LDAP,
ORM).

Instructor / Teaching Assistant, Central Piedmont Community College
Charlotte, NC, 2005-01 - 2005-12

Taught a course in XHTML+CSS for Central Piedmont Community College's Corporate
and Continuing Education division. Served as a teaching assistant and grader for
courses in Java, HTML, etc. Helped instructors in selecting and implementing
online programming activities using the Moodle Learning Management System.

Web Developer, Central Piedmont Community College
Charlotte, NC, 2004-11 - 2005-08

Researched CMS solutions for an overhaul of the college's primary website.
Advocated, won support for, and later helped to implement the use of Plone CMS
for www.cpcc.edu. Authored web applications using a custom in-house framework
(Python, XML+XSLT, Oracle/SQL Server).

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science
New York University, New York, NY, 2007

Associate in Applied Science, Internet Technologies
Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC, 2005

Skills

REST, MVC, OOP, PHP5, Zend Framework, SQL (SQL Server, MySQL), XML, XSLT, Linux,
LAMP, Apache, Java, XHTML, CSS, Web accessibility (WAI, Section 508), content
syndication (RSS, ATOM)

Affiliations

Electronic Frontier Foundation,      Member,                    2007 - present
Free Software Foundation,            Member,                    2006 - present
New York Linux Users Group,          Member,                    2006 - present
Charlotte Linux Users Group,         Vice President,            2004 - 2005
Association for Computing Machinery, Student Chapter President, 2004 - 2005 

References

Personal and professional references are available upon request.