KENT ALLAN MATTHEW
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
4133 Los Altos Drive
Plano, TX 75024
Phone: 214-901-4915
OBJECTIVE:
Highly-motivated, committed, dependable and detail-oriented professional with strong analytical and communication skills and over fifteen years’ experience in application development seeking a challenging position designing and implementing web-based or smartphone solutions.
SUMMARY OF SKILLS:
|
Language |
Years’ Experience |
Last Used |
Database |
Years’ Experience |
Last Used |
|
C# |
12 |
Current |
SQL Server 2016 |
3 |
Current |
|
VB.NET |
14 |
Current |
PostgreSQL |
2 |
2019 |
|
MVC |
8 |
Current |
Access |
3 |
2007 |
|
Web API |
3 |
Current |
MySQL |
1 |
2008 |
|
Angular |
1 |
Current |
Interbase |
4 |
2005 |
|
jQuery |
3 |
Current |
Oracle 7.2 |
2 |
1998 |
|
Java (Android) |
3 |
2019 |
DB2 |
2.5 |
1994 |
|
Classic ASP |
15 |
Current |
|
|
|
|
Visual Basic 6 |
2 |
2005 |
|
|
|
|
PERL |
4 |
2002 |
|
|
|
|
PHP |
1 |
2008 |
|
|
|
|
HTML |
15 |
Current |
|
|
|
|
JavaScript |
5 |
Current |
|
|
|
EXPERIENCE:
Independent Consulting Plano, TX (September, 2017 – Present)
Software Engineer
· Using Angular, C# Web API, XML and SQL Server, created an energy sustainability website which allowed the customer to maintain and share information with companies on providing them with more cost-effective energy solutions.
· Using Angular, C# Web API, XML and SQL Server, rewrote the assessment portion of a California real estate school’s website, providing students with an unobtrusive timer, immediate feedback on their scores, two opportunities to pass the test, and mutually exclusive, randomized questions between the two tests.
· Using C# MVC, XML and SQL Server, created a website to allow the customer to receive qualifying financial documents from real estate investors to create accounts which allow the investors to monitor fund performance and manage fund selections.
Sonexus Health Lewisville, TX (August, 2014 – August 2017)
Software Engineer
· Using C# and SQL Server, maintained webforms-based website central to the hub pharmacy services company's business which enabled them to coordinate delivery of pharmaceutical companies' specialty medication to patients, do benefits investigation to determine coverage details for triage to specialty pharmacies for prescription fulfillment, and provide copay assistance.
· Using C# MVC, jQuery and SQL Server, enhanced a web-based workflow system used in conjunction with the central webforms-based website to allow the call center to track patients' current stage in the benefit investigation and triage process.
· Using Angular.js, C# Web API, SharePoint and SQL Server, maintained and created new logic for miscellaneous web portals which allowed drug companies and the physicians prescribing their drugs to access their data.
· Using Angular 4, C# Web API, Azure and SQL Server, maintained and created new logic for a multi-enrollment portal which allowed patients to enroll in a variety of different drug programs offered by pharmaceutical companies.
· Created a large amount of SQL Server 2012 T-SQL to populate the appropriate tables when bringing on a new pharmaceutical company and do ad-hoc reporting.
Independent Consulting Plano, TX (February, 2007 - July, 2014)
Web Developer/Software Engineer
· Using VB MVC, created a website for the Highland Park ISD which allows the user to import registration data, modify individual students’ information, and generate the output files used to print yearly student directories.
· Using VB.NET, AJAX and SQL Server 2008, created a new version of the customer-facing portion of an information solution provider’s website which allowed for multi-factor authentication, IP address range verification using IP designations, and automatic timeouts customizable for each user.
· Using C#, created a WCF service for an information solution provider which called the same functions as their main website and was to be consumed by a smartphone application.
· Using C# and SQL Server 2008, created an ordering and shipping website for a medication used in glaucoma surgery and distributed through a specialty pharmacy.
· Using C# and SQL Server 2008, created a forum where users could post comments and reply to existing posts and a comprehensive survey for a divorce support website for women. Also created an administrative site which allowed the site owner to moderate the forum posts and drill down to detailed statistics calculated from the survey.
· Created a VB.NET intranet site for Nike Golf, which enabled users to log results of testing golf club models, using information contained in an Access database to create dynamic web controls.
· Using VB.NET and SQL Server 2000, created a Windows service to poll multiple Exchange calendars for Republic Title offices, presenting the current day’s closing appointments on customer-facing big-screen lobby TVs.
· Using VB.NET and SQL Server 2005, created a content management system for a funeral home, allowing employees to create obituaries to be displayed on public web site
· Made enhancements to a web site written in C# and a desktop application written in C#, both of which used LINQ to retrieve and update information in the SQL Server database they shared.
· Using C# and SQL Server 2000, enhanced a web-based product which captured visits to promotional web sites by geographic region to the database by enabling the site to pass this information as parameters to Flash pages. This allowed the user to drill down to tailored statistics presented in a visually sophisticated manner.
· Using VB.NET and SQL Server 2005, created an estimated closing cost web site and admin web site to update tax information for Republic Title, allowing users to create closing cost estimates for their clients and share this information via PDF documents stored not as files, but as image fields in the database.
· As part of a web-based email marketing program, used VB.NET and SQL Server 2000 to create and invoke an asynchronous web service to send email to a distribution list.
Voyager Expanded Learning Farmers Branch, TX (February, 2006 – February, 2007)
Web Developer/Software Engineer
· Created multiple Intranet sites using VB.NET and SQL Server 2005 which allowed users to perform accounting and inventory functions without the constraints imposed by the vendor-maintained ERP system. These sites restricted access based on NT security without the user having to log in.
· Customized the SalesLogix CRM system using Visual Basic, JavaScript and HTML and vendor-provided tools.
· Created web parts in VB.NET to display sales information on a SharePoint dashboard.
Vivid Software Frisco, TX (August, 2005 – February, 2006)
Web Developer/Software Engineer
· Used VB.NET and SQL Server 2005 stored procedures to develop a customizable web-based email marketing system which allowed the customer to import and maintain contacts, create campaigns, upload design templates, and create messages based on those templates to send to the campaigns. Using this system, sending personalized emails to thousands of contacts was as easy as logging in and clicking a button.
· Used VB.NET and SQL Server 2000 stored procedures to create an in-house web-based project tracking system.
· Converted screens from a medical billing desktop application written in Visual Basic 6 to a web-based system using VB.NET.
Lewis Computer Services Allen, TX (December, 2002 – July, 2005)
Web Developer/Software Engineer
· Used Classic ASP, JavaScript and Visual Basic 6 to entirely redesign the report distribution web site, improving usability and security.
· Designed and implemented an assessment auditing application using Visual Basic 6 and SQL Server 2000.
· Used Classic ASP, SQL Server 2000 and Visual Basic 6 to implement an efficient system to display tailored customer messages on the report distribution web site.
· Modified the Scheduler program written in Visual Basic 6 to prioritize claims download jobs and calculate completion percentage statistics.
· Used Visual Basic 6 and SQL Server 2000 to display reason code description mouseovers in Receivables Master reports.
· Created multiple in-house tools using Visual Basic 6 and documented all procedures necessary to keep the Receivables Master system running.
WebShop Plano, TX (March, 2000 – November, 2002)
Web Developer
· Used Classic ASP, PHP, PERL, JavaScript, HTML, Access, mySQL, and Interbase to develop customized database-enabled web sites and secure Content Management System (CMS) user interfaces.
· Used PERL and Interbase to add customized MLS searches to realtors’ web sites.
· Used Classic ASP, PERL, Access and Interbase to create E-commerce web sites allowing customers to sell products online.
· Delivered Web technology presentations to service organizations and the Plano Chamber of Commerce.
EDUCATION:
Saint Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude, Psychology
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia , PA
Master of Science in Education
Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX
Systems Engineer Development Program
Train USA, Dallas, TX
Certified Internet Webmaster
ACTIVITIES:
· Toastmasters International
Earned Competent Toastmaster (CTM) level of distinction
· Weight training
· Cycling
· Professional drummer