Matt Grommes

Current

Business Systems Analyst II at New Mexico Mutual

Past

Developer at Presbyterian Healthcare Services
QA Engineer at SAMBA Holdings
Senior Network / System Engineer at SpinnNet

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Education

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Highland High School
Santana High School

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Recommended

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Connections

40 connections

Industry

Insurance

Websites

Matt Grommes’s Summary

I have 10+ years experience programming; mostly in Perl, Java, SQL, and recently Groovy. I helped build a small ISP from 1000 dialup customers to over 3000 dialup, 1000+ high speed DSL and wireless customers over 5 years. I transitioned from network / system administration to Quality Assurance for 2 local Albuquerque software firms and then moved from QA to full-time programming as a consultant and now as a full-time programmer / team lead.

I hope to keep growing as a programmer, learning new languages and techniques, as well as studying the computer science building blocks of skills. I am also developing my leadership skills as a team leader in an agile work environment.

Matt Grommes’s Specialties:

Java, Scrum / Agile methodology, SQL, Groovy, Perl, HTML, Javascript

Matt Grommes’s Experience

Business Systems Analyst II

New Mexico Mutual

(Insurance industry)

February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

My main project has been a nearly 2 year effort to implement a new billing system
• Worked with executives from various departments to write the initial specifications of legacy billing behavior and desired behavior for the new system
• Designed and developed Java programs for over a dozen points of integration with other systems using JDBC, SOAP web services and JMS
• Configured application using over 5000 lines of code in vendor's custom Ruby-like language and in configuration tool
• Advocated for Scrum development processes such as continuous integration, letting programmers specify task estimates, working with Scrum Master and Product Owner to ensure everyone’s needs were being met

I'm proud that over time my role on the team evolved into not only a developer but into a team lead
• Worked to eliminate impediments and improve team efficiency
• Acted as pragmatic sounding board for other programmers’ design ideas

During this time I was also the maintainer of the claim processing application used by entire company (120+ people)
Developer

Presbyterian Healthcare Services

(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

2006 — 2007 (1 year)
QA Engineer

SAMBA Holdings

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Services industry)

2004 — 2006 (2 years)
Senior Network / System Engineer

SpinnNet

(Internet industry)

1998 — 2003 (5 years)

Albuquerque based internet provider. First to provide DSL in New Mexico, first to provide Qwest DSL in New Mexico, early wireless internet provider.

Matt Grommes’s Education

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Computer Science 1996 — 1998
Highland High School

Activities and Societies:

Academic Decathlon (State champions 1996), New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge
Santana High School

Additional Information

Matt Grommes’s Websites:

Matt Grommes’s Interests:

Reading, programming, studying new programming languages and techniques, bicycling, electronics, writing.

Matt Grommes’s Groups:

Idea Propulsion Lab hardware hacker group (Founder), Albuquerque Java Users Group, New Mexico Agile Users Group, regular contributor to AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com