Matthew Kane Email & Phone Number

Westlake Village, California, United States

Westlake Village, Ca

• Technical Lead, iEntry — a multi-tier ASP.NET MVC web application with WebAPI RESTful back-end web services for entering and processing applications for merchant processing accounts. The application is highly customizable and metadata driven to accommodate the various business practices of numerous partners.• Responsible for architecture, design, coding, code reviews, code merges, builds, deployments and making technical decisions for and answering questions from developers, QA engineers, and business stakeholders.• Designed and implemented multi-tier calculation and rules engines to enable business rules to be managed in metadata and applied consistently in multiple tiers of the application, including in the browser using a javascript implementation.• Improved maintainability and performance through large reductions in code by refactoring, removing redundancies, and replacing code with metadata.

Re-architected parts of AWS-hosted web application to close security holes.Architected multi-tenant ASP.NET MVC website to allow multiple identity providers in one site.Architected data-driven customization of inventory management system.

Agoura Hills, Ca

Shared Services Architect for Secondary Marketing Technology:Coding architect for various shared services, including systems that automate deployment of executable binaries, database schemas and configuration, manage the workflow of access granting and revocation, and centralize configuration, notifications and access control.Lead Architect aligned to Secondary Marketing Technology:From July 2010 to April 2011 I was responsible for the architecture of the portfolio of applications serving Secondary Marketing. I created architectural plans and designs for changes in those applications to align with division-wide architectural goals. I had previously been a coding architect and was drafted into this position. I requested a transfer back to Secondary Marketing Technology when it became clear that there was no coding architect role in the centralized architecture group.Architect for rewrite of Secondary Marketing pricing application:In anticipation of a new hardware configuration for the database that would remove that as a bottleneck, I designed in H1 2010 a scale-out solution for calculating prices that used WCF for distributing calculations and a hand-rolled small rule engine to allow minimal recalculation without forbidding circular references. I coded the rule engine to calculate and cache the rule dependency graph by using expression trees from an internal DSL written as lambda expressions. I was drafted into the lead architect position before completing this project.

Agoura Hills, Ca

Architectural Leadership:I was the lead on all architectural issues for the Artificial Intelligence group. This included leading and approving solution architectures and high-level designs, establishing and evangelizing design and coding standards, and designing and coding frameworks to support our architecture. I worked extensively with management, analysts and business partners to guide the architectural aspects of requirements gathering. I also represented our group in meetings with other architects.Management Leadership:I led a team of three database developer/administrators, another development manager, and her three developers. I managed their task scheduling, performance, and career development. They came to me with technical questions, business questions and HR issues. I participated with other managers in the development and refinement of our policies and procedures to improve quality and productivity. My participation in our defect reduction program was instrumental in achieving a 2008 reduction in rework of 49% and an increase in productivity of 27%, compared to goals of 10% and 5% respectively.Market Reactor:Market Reactor versions 1 and 2 enabled overnight changes in loan guidelines, potentially saving tens, or possibly hundreds, of millions of dollars in loan losses and possibly preventing bankruptcy. I personally coded version 1 in a few days with little sleep so it could go into production within two weeks, to prevent a possible business disaster. I provided extensive architectural guidance for version 2, which moved the features of Market Reactor into our existing business rules engine.

Agoura Hills, Ca

AI Services 2 Framework:I architected, designed and coded a new C# framework for the next generation of Artificial Intelligence Services.

San Jose, Ca

GoLive Dynamic Link:I designed and coded both UI and client-server features of this plug-in for the GoLive HTML editor that enables it to edit templates for dynamically-generated pages. I invented patented technology (Patent 7,428,699: Configurable Representation of Structured Data) for analyzing structured data such as XML and representing it in the UI so the user can bind to it. This project required dealing with asynchronous networking issues, network security issues, mapping a variety of server implementations to a common user experience, parsing algorithms and heuristics for extracting semantic meaning, cross-platform issues, cross-browser issues, multiple server platform issues and the whole web soup.

San Jose, Ca

ActivePresenter 1.0:I was lead developer (supervising a total of five other developers) on this MFC-based Web Presentation product suite. I revitalized a stagnant development schedule by integrating the work of all the developers and instituting a consistent build routine. I rewrote HTML generation and publishing code to improve performance, flexibility, and robustness. I also designed and implemented last-minute feature requirements for PowerPoint compatibility and live RealAudio support and coded most of the UI for the WebShow Publisher component of the suite. I also coded some server-side Active Server Pages to communicate with client-side code I wrote in C++.ActiveMail 1.0 / MailPlus 1.0 / ActiveOffice 2.0 / GraphicsPlus 2.0:I created a "Mr. PotatoHead" architecture to build all four MFC-based graphics products (and potentially others) out of the same code base with the flexibility to quickly and easily modify the set of features included in each as marketing requirements change. I performed a major cleanup and rewrite of existing functionality to improve performance, flexibility, and robustness so that new code didn’t constantly break old features. I also designed and coded almost all of the UI, including custom-designed widgets.ActiveOffice 1.0:I designed and coded the majority of this Microsoft Office add-on’s Office integration features, including features that required taking OLE, and MFC’s implementation of OLE, where it was never designed to go. Despite rapidly changing requirements, feature behavior and UI design, my enhancements that modified legacy code improved that code’s performance and robustness.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba)

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