Director of Technology
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Director of Technology at Unruly Media
- Past
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- Systems Architect at Connextra
- Software Developer at Krescendo Ltd
- Software Developer at Connextra Ltd
- Education
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- University of Kent at Canterbury
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
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Matthew Cooke’s Experience
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Director of Technology
Unruly Media
(Computer Software industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
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Systems Architect
Connextra
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
2004 — February 2006 (2 years )
Heavily involved in the continuing development and scaling of a contextual/livedata adserving system that i had started developing before leaving Connextra previously. Helped recruit new employees and mentor them in XP development. Connextra was sold for 1.7 million and is now owned by Betgenius.
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Software Developer
Krescendo Ltd
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2004 — August 2004 (7 months)
Involved in development of a Java web application for fleet managers “Sateltrack” to track lorries around Eastern Europe. The application used GPS, satellites and GSM to provide live monitoring of lorry positions and current loads over the web.
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Software Developer
Connextra Ltd
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2000 — June 2003 (3 years 2 months)
Developing a Windows Browser companion “Sidewize” as part of an XP team of developers. Involved in the full iterative development life cycle. Worked mainly with IBMs Visual Age for Java and Microsoft’s J++ and later with IBM’s Eclipse. Involved in interviewing and helping grow the development team during this period. Shortly before leaving I developed a prototype of a contextual advertising product using the same technology but designed to run on a server not a client machine.
Matthew Cooke’s Education
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University of Kent at Canterbury
BSc , Computer Science , 1996 — 1999
Additional Information
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Matthew Cooke’s Interests:
Software Design, Agile development, Web Development, Java, DHTML, OO, Testing
