Matt Heaton Email & Phone Number

Monroe, WA, US

FossilEra is the world's largest retailer of authentic fossil and mineral specimens. Launched in 2013 FossilEra.com has shipped over 170k orders across the globe. We serve a market ranging from high-end collectors, to people looking for unique gifts, to educational programs and museums.

Developer of Starpires (http://starpires.com), a sci-fi themed, strategy MMO. Bridging the gap between casual games and hardcore strategy gamers.

Development Lead/Manager for Urban Influence, a leading Seattle based design agency.* Led development of Seattlemet.com, PortlandMonthlyMag.com and a custom CMS for Sagacity Media, Inc. Developed using RoR, MySQL, SOLR, and jQuery * Managed a five person development team. This included maintaining project schedules, assigning tasks, conducting code.

Irvine, California, US

Timu Corp. encompasses multiple startup projects as well as a Ruby on Rails development consulting business.* Designed and built Timu.com a social media platform for amateur sports teams.* Created Starpires.com a massive multiplayer strategy game in Ruby on Rails, JQuery and PostgreSQL. Currently with over 100k registered players and profitable. * Designed.

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* Created the vision and product design for the ActiveRain Real Estate Network, currently the largest social network for real estate professionals. Acquired by Market Leader.* Developed both online and offline marketing strategies heavily incorporating SEO and SEM, driving rapid customer/traffic acquisition with almost no marketing or advertising spend.*.

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* Designed and led the development of ActiveRain’s second-generation real estate CRM and lead workflow system that was used by several of the largest real estate companies in the US to manage leads generated online.* Implemented the core architecture of the CRM system in Java/J2EE based technologies.* Assisted developers in re-architected an existing home.

* Collaborated with third party POS vendors to develop specifications for and execute integration with Ontain’s credit/gift card processing solution via.NET web services.* Researched and implemented a data warehousing system for financial reporting that aggregated data from multiple platforms.* Worked with the development team to put in place source.

Seattle, WA, US

* Architected and led development of a highly scalable, web-based educational content management system implemented in J2EE, which is still used to author and serve dynamic content to 100,000+ end users. Responsible for database design, the majority of middle tier business logic, as well as implementing key pieces of the UI* Created a framework taking.