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London, United Kingdom

Success as a Service for Indie games developers. Providing all services needed to allow a small teams to take games to the widest market with fair and transparent costing.As CEO Matt had the idea to offer traditional porting and publishing like services to developers using a straight-forward SaaS style model. Originally designing and building the the underlying technology leveraging enterprise style automation.Subsequently building the team to both launch a product allow self-service porting/publishing and utilise this technology for high profile game development and porting projects working with publishers and indies directly.DO Games has helped over 17 indie games see their widest audience across more than 8 different platforms including console, mobile and desktop.

London

Providing cutting edge services to the music industry for rights management and royalty calculation.As a founding partner, Matt grew the companies development resource and methodology to deliver projects to a high quality on time and budget. A unique combination of permanent staff, trusted contractors and levels of offshore/nearshore resource demonstrated unrivalled ability to scale.Matt also led the design and delivery for several large scale projects in the music industry for the likes of PPL, ASCAP, PRS, SACEM and others.

London

Produced industry leading and disruptive same-day delivery technology leveraging big-data, machine learning and micro-services.As CTO Matt built an impressive team from scratch to build and operate this system successfully. In a very short time a new business vertical for existing same day leader CitySprint could be realised with a high degree of automation and stability. Integrated partners included John Lewis/Waitrose, JustEat, Matches Fashion and many other retailers and start-ups that could handle a simple API integration.

London, United Kingdom

Creating the worlds first all-in-one consumer electronics appliance for music streaming, The Electric Jukebox.As CTO Matt built and lead the development team, embracing size-zero tech concepts to managing the tight team of talented individuals to realise core vision.A truly full-stack system; the fusion of global enterprise grade Micro Services in AWS, cutting edge Browser based UX and a custom Android hardware platform. Isomorphic usage of Javascript in UI, servers and database.

London, United Kingdom

As part of the Management Team, led Engineering and Architecture functions to complete MusicStation Platform move to AWS and Micro Services Architecture; culminating in the release of Omnifone's first entirely cloud hosted solution powering the music delivery for Neil Young's PonoMusic.Developed a strong relationship with AWS team leading to Omnifone securing a slot in Werner Vogel's AWS Re:Invent 2014 keynote address. Assisted in the creation of the presentation that was delivered by Omnifone Founder Phil Sant.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for overall architecture of the MusicStation platform which powers many global music subscription services including: Sony Music Unlimited, Blackberry BBM Music and Rara.com.Role involves managing team of Senior Architects, working closely with Product and Engineering departments while representing architecture strategy in top level management meetings - reporting directly to company Chief Engineer & Founder.Instigated transition to Service Oriented Architecture for quality, productivity and culture benefits while promoting use of (IaaS/PaaS) providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) to reduce reliance on upfront capital outlay, allow cost to be factored into development and improve global distribution of software and data. Championed Dev-Ops movement within Omnifone to ensure operational aspects of system are understood and catered for at all levels of development.

London, United Kingdom

Overall technical lead within Omnifone creating Sony Music Unlimited - the first global, multi-device cloud based subscription music service. Lead customer facing technical interactions and managed both the development and rollout of the proposition, including wide range of clients: Web (HTML 5/Flash), Windows, Sony BIVL as well as supporting development of PS3 and PSP, iOS and Android clients.Platform development focused on moving to standards based REST APIs, deploying global infrastructure and integrating with top-tier CDN provider.Project was realised within tight resource and time constraints, which were handled successfully due to close relationship built with Sony and Omnifone Product Teams.

London, United Kingdom

Managing the entire mobile technical team for Omnifone MusicStation and Sony Ericsson PlayNow(tm) Plus; both leading offerings in the digital subscription music space. Responsible for everything from new feature development to end-to-end device commissioning including QA and rollout process - reporting directly to CTO.Refining internal technology and platforms to support development across a broad range of J2ME, Symbian and Android handsets and fostering close collaboration with Sony Ericsson, as well as several tier-1 global MNOs including: Vodafone UK/Aus/NZ, 3 Hong Kong, Telenor, Swisscom and Telcel.

Working with Product Management and Product Development teams to improve the underlying architecture, capabilities and quality of a successful cross platform mobile application development and on-device portal platform. Culminating in the creation of the SurfKit Widget Framework and it's first usage with Telstra MNO.Much work to improve general SDK through examples and high quality documentation generated from XML Schema with XSLT. Encouraged usage of J2ME simulators reducing test/fix development cycle time by allowing standard J2SE tools and IDEs to be used.Again working as one of senior architecture team managing off-shore resource.

Responsible for developing common mobile application templates in response to requirements from Product Management, Sales and Marketing. Focus on user experience, porting and percieved quality to customers drawing from my previous experience in the games and web industries.As a high level architect also involved closely in shaping the development of the Surfkitchen mobile applicaiton platform.Part of senior architecture team, reporting to Head of Product Development and managing small team of off-shore developers.

Southampton, United Kingdom

Lead architect of highly efficient mobile games framework targeting J2SE/J2ME, BREW and Symbian. Proven to vastly reduce porting costs for the huge range of mobile devices required for MNO take up at the time.Managing team of core engineers and several contractors in UK and Germany; responsible for the creation of core technologies for client application development. The main goals being to continually reduce the overall cost of development, increase the quality and consistency of the end product, and allow the broadest possible deployment of client-side applications and technologies. Successful at allowing UK based development studio to compete very favorably cost wise with off-shore porting companies, while still achieving triple-A quality.

Southampton, United Kingdom

Lead Developer and Team Leader for several large cutting edge mobile games including: Foggy Petronas Superbikes and Le-Mans 2007 (J2ME), utilising first wave of 3D rendering technologies on J2ME.During Infospace acquisition of IOMO acted as liaison to German/US studios responsible for integrating and harmonising development technologies and methodologies.

Southampton, United Kingdom

Lead developer of triple-A titles at the UK's number 1 independent games studio in heyday of mobile phone gaming including: Chase HQ, Pursuit Squad, Steve Davis Snooker and the BAFTA nominated Colin McRae Rally 2005 (J2ME).Broad range of activities involved in mobile games design, development and construction of associated tools/utilities. Predominantly Java development for wide range of J2ME devices but some work on legacy WAP devices including backend services using Oracle and TopLink Object Relational mapper.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Leading a small team of people to produce and maintain an enterprise scale object relational database, content management and workflow system. Based on C#/VB.NET and Microsoft SQL Server and COM. Extensive experience in stored procedures and performance tuning for .NET and SQL Server 2000. Many of the client side techniques now coined as AJAX or Web 2.0 were also staples of these projects; before the terms became widespread in the years to come.Focused on providing internet, extranet and document management systems for large UK based member organisations, including: United Kingdom Water Industry Research (UKWIR), IEA Clean Coal Centre Federation (IEA Coal) and International Water Association (IWA).

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Designing and producing web-based business solutions consisting of contact, document and content management systems using HTML, ASP, VB and COM on Windows NT/2000 IIS. The role also included general management of network firewall and servers all hosted on Windows NT.

Arundel, United Kingdom

Founder and lead developer of TV AdFind television advertisement monitoring system for Windows in C++ (MFC) & x86 Assembler. At a time when all television monitoring was done by hand, the automated system developed ran on standard PC hardware and processed 18 hours of video each day, matching adverts across many broadcast channels.In final stages also included web application with embedded media player (RealPlayer) allowing viewing of results and creative content for each advertisement and was successfully trialed by AC Nielsen group in UK.

Bsc Hons (2.1), Computer Science

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