Stephen Mathews Email & Phone Number

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

October marks the two year mark for me at BHG Financial and my teams have been amazing. With a strong focus on systems integrations, we support and built stable and performant systems for a company that is great to work for. The culture and spirit encourages and inspires each of us to go the extra mile. I see a great future here at BHG Financial.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

At Fiserv I get to work with very talented people where we share and exercise skills in Modern C++, Java, Statistical Analysis and Large Data Wrangling with SQL and R, and other such technologies. We do all of this in an environment that requires High Availability at high volumes of transaction throughput with minimal latency. We are regularly presented with problems requiring well-crafted solutions. I believe my most powerful skill is that of listening to the people I work with. I also know that I am fortunate to work with the team I have been trusted to lead. Don't get me wrong, I get my hands dirty too, with over 20 years of C++, SQL, and high performance system engineering, analysis, and a growing skill set in R, and over 17 years of financial data processing in real-time, I get to enjoy the success of our efforts as well.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Design and develop multiplatform enterprise level real-time monitoring system in C++ for support and management staff use. Led a team of developers in backend systems development and maintenanceHave also been tasked with personally leading the design and development of a business intelligence system that is now live but still evolving.Maintain, enhance, troubleshoot, repair and optimize processes and data used for settlement processing.Mining of data for research, auditing and troubleshooting.Expanded internal chargeback system ASP interface to support Visa international chargeback exhibit forms.Rewrote MasterCard settlement batch loaders with one other team member to support GCMS (ISO-8583) update in Java reusing existing code to meet short deadline.One of the few authors of SQL Server Extended Stored Procedures in the company using C/C++.

Was hired primarily to design, develop and implement the Stadium POS system industry's first fully TCP/IP based POS system in C++ for embedded systems in a very short time.Developed centralized POS station management service software for Windows and Linux servers.Led development of embedded POS station software for StrongARM Linux using GCC.Designed a custom fully automatic configuration protocol based on the DHCP and BOOTP specifications to reduce the needed knowledge base of the client's network administrators.Designed redundant self updating subsystem for the POS station software for central deployment of software updates

Assisted in complete redesign of reporting system front and backend used by the company; The system was designed to use any database and run on Windows with later intent for UNIX migration.Wrote a parser in C++ to read a large number of existing Perl reports and reporting utility scripts; The parser was used to migrate all embedded queries and hard coded data used for reporting to the newer dynamic architecture.Added support for dynamic internationalization of currencies and languages to the old "Perl" system and new systems.

Assisted in analysis of business software requirements for billing, A/R, and collections.Implemented custom business policies to Portal Software's Infranet billing system used at iNNERHOST.Designed and developed desktop and server applications used internally to simplify the setup of shared web hosting accounts for customers using Visual Basic and C++ COM components.Designed and developed COM client components that were plugged into ASP pages allowing customers to setup a web hosting accounts that were allocated and activated on the web servers on in real-time.

Established complete plan and process for multi-platform development of entire product suite.Designed standard processes for documenting, designing, and developing all software products.Wrote a multi-platform polymorphic database API wrapper that encompassed all major native database APIs for an average performance benefit over ODBC of about twenty percent.Developed training for new hires in multi-platform development methods.Personally responsible for all cryptographic security measures developed and implement in the enterprise class suite this included SSL communication, custom protocols based well known algorithms, certificate generation, and security auditing of client's internal and external network infrastructure.Consulted with clients on how they could implement or improve the security of their infrastructure from internal and external invasions with the lowest cost and simplest practices, for both Windows and UNIX systems.Designed and developed a multithreaded digital image storage/retrieval server that compiled on UNIX and Windows from the same C++ source code.Established Qt (www.trolltech.com) as the GUI tool kit of choice for our product suite.Developed performance monitoring tools using FLTK (www.fltk.org) due to improved graphics support.Wrote many custom applications for customers using MFC, Visual Basic, or Qt depending on their needs.A complete set of toolkits/APIs was developed to allow customers and VARs to customize the look and feel of our document imaging product suite, these tools were in the form of COM/ActiveX components, CORBA components, C libraries, and C++ classes.The web product was designed to run as a stand alone server it was written primarily in C++ for high speed image rendering and conversion and used JSP to handle basic session management.

Conducted analysis for porting an international development effort (30+ developers and three backend Web products) from Win32/MFC to a UNIX environment in C++ using NSAPI or raw CGI.Designed and implemented multi-platform internet protocol wrapper classes in C++.Demonstrated suggested approaches for multi-platform development based on analysis.Worked with the team on general web development tasks for their travel reservation system.

Worked on Design and development of a corporate service/repair and dispatch system for BrandsMart USA Service Center in a team environment complete with logistics support for parts inventory/usage tracking with the combined use of Visual Basic and C++.Multilanguage environment allowed for development of COM components using ATL to handle common transactions for speed and Visual Basic to host the components and for the GUI development based on the required business logic of the company. This was before VB supported component development.Developed custom applications on an as needed basis in Visual Basic and Visual C++.Assisted in Writing of design, technical, and user documentation.Assisted in port of a legacy application used in Collier County Property Appraiser's office to VB.

Coordinated migration from Novell based systems to Windows NT.Developed custom software in Visual C++ for the transfer of large amounts of data for the migration effort.Acted as a liaison for migration issues between the State and FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency).Wrote user and technical documentationTrained employees on the use of custom applications to repair corrupted data in the Novell System.Provided support to employees for custom and legacy applications.Defined the structure and security used for the new Windows NT network.

Designed mass production manufacturing processes for military and local authority weapons accessories.Developed software for computer automated mass production machinery.Designed and machined custom holding fixtures to increase production efficiency.Developed embedded software for 8-bit micro controllers in C and assembler for prototype systems.Interfacing software for the micro controllers was developed in Visual C++ 1.5.Redesigned and machined many first run prototypes for field testing.Made daily use of mathematics in mechanical and software design for trajectory calculations.Responsible for all technical, design, and research documentation

Custom software development for clients in C.Presentation and documentation management software development.Component level repair of electronic office equipment such as presentation systems, micro fiche readers and copiers.Submitted electronic update proposals for review and implementation into production equipment.