Matt Williams

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

55 Poplar Street, Apt. 6K
Brooklyn, NY USA 10017

+1 917 371 1308 cell
+1 917 267 7813 voice

Summary

Web Developer committed to building standards-based applications that are
accessible, scalable and maintainable. Proven ability to successfully analyze
requirements and develop innovative, reliable solutions. 

Experience

Software Architect, Documentation Lead
Arc 90, Inc.
New York, NY
February 2008 - Present

 * Led and managed a team of communication specialists to produce technical and
   non-technical documentation.

 * Built an MVC application framework based on Zend Framework 
   [http://framework.zend.com] (PHP5).

 * Designed and built RESTful web services (and clients) supporting multiple
   content types (e.g. XHTML, XML, JSON).

 * Wrote libraries to facilitate communication between internal and external
   web service APIs (e.g. Twitter, Yammer).

Web Application Developer
New York University College of Dentistry
New York, NY
2006 - 2008

 * Designed and built a custom application development framework (PHP5)

 * Designed a relational database schema with localized data access controls
   (MySQL)

 * Helped to standardize development policies and tools including:

    * Source code control (Subversion)
    * Universal code modules for common tasks (LDAP, contact forms, etc)

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

 * Advocated, implemented and deployed Plone CMS for http://www.cpcc.edu.

 * Developed applications using an internal framework (Python, Oracle, XML/XSLT)

Instructor / Teaching Assistant
Central Piedmont Community College
Charlotte, NC
2004 - 2005

 * Taught a course in XHTML / CSS for CPCC Corporate and Continuing Education

 * Served as teaching assistant and grader for courses in Java, HTML, etc.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science
New York University
New York, NY
December 2007
3.378 GPA on a 4.0 scale

Associate in Applied Science, Internet Technologies
Central Piedmont Community College
Charlotte, NC
December 2005
4.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale

Technologies, Etc

REST   PHP   Java   Linux   OS X   *nix   Relational databases   SQL   XHTML
CSS   Section 508   WAI   WaSP   Content management   XML   XSLT   AJAX   RSS
ATOM

Affiliations

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

References

Personal and professional references are available upon request.