Technology Leader
Greater New York City Area
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- Principle at Future Adapter
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- Tech Lead at Exchange Place
- Technical Lead at Accoona
- Senior Software Engineer at Klipmart
- Lead Developer/Architect at Cydata Services
- Director of Emerging Technologies at Sunset Direct
- Consultant at iCarnegie
- Developer at Eizel
- eXtreme Code Slinger at e-Cruise
- Software Engineer at Claritech
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Matt Ittigson’s Summary
Well-rounded, personable, and talented technical leader with extensive startup experience and an infectious enthusiasm for new technology. Successful in every facet of software development and adjoining business units from systems administration, testing, database administration, and development, to architecture, technical leadership, product development, and project management to CTO. Worked closely with sales, marketing, business development, investors, and executive management. Love to get a team excited to apply technology to meet a challenge and revel in the results.
Matt Ittigson’s Experience
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Principle
Future Adapter
(Computer Software industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Future Adapter is a full-service web development company with a focus on dynamic, collaborative applications and high-concept, visually interesting e-commerce. Just a few of the things we do well: building scalable websites, utilizing cloud-based resources, plugging into existing social networks and services, and database optimization. Startups and new ideas excite us; we like to inject entrepreneurial energy into work with organizations of all sizes. From-scratch applications are developed on the Ruby on Rails technology stack, but we have significant expertise in a myriad of languages and platforms, as well as with mixed-technology web services environments. We're also available for team training related to Ruby on Rails, agile planning and execution, and testing.
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techie
kluster
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
April 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Participated in all technical aspects of the complete product lifecycle--from idea inception, through design, coding, QA, to maintanence--for Knewsroom (http://www.knewsroom.com, http://mashable.com/2008/05/14/kluster-knewsroom/), Namethis (http://www.namethis.com, http://mashable.com/2008/06/06/namethis/), and Private Klusters (http://www.kluster.com, http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/22/kluster-launches-private-survey-manager/). Responsible for javascript using Scriptaculous and Prototype, Ruby on Rails development, CSS, linux server administration, EC2 hosting and integration, performance monitoring and improvements, and deployment scripting.
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Consultant
Prada
(Privately Held; Apparel & Fashion industry)
June 2008 — January 2009 (8 months)
Designed and implemented a cohesive multi-brand backend and customer support solution providing consistent content management, customer interaction, international shipping, and international billing features in Ruby on Rails. Implemented a robust, rich fontography system utilizing non-web fonts, automated processing of website text to deliver pre-made images and support for multiple languages. Created a consistent RESTful XML interface to drive both a Flex site and a luxurious Javascript-based web experience.
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Founder & CTO
Chalq Inc.
(Internet industry)
March 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Responsible for all technical decisions and output for a social fantasy sports web application platform. Developed software and managed server and hosting relationships. Developed product specifications and project management methodologies. Worked with distributed consulting teams. Created and delivered investor presentations. Technologies included Ruby on Rails, EC2, S3, javascript, and MySQL.
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Tech Lead
Exchange Place
(Computer Software industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year )
See Accoona description ...
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Technical Lead
Accoona
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
August 2006 — March 2007 (8 months)
Responsible for the technology powering a real-time lead generation marketplace and the business unit, Exchange Place. Oversaw technology transition from prototype/beta phase to production with 99% uptime. Managed 15 direct reports, recruiting and hiring many of them. Implemented scrum and agile planning methodologies. Initiated "learning lunches" and made presentations to entire technical staff. Participated in SOA advisory committee. Technologies included Java, Websphere, Oracle, Linux, Mule ESB, and Spring.
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Senior Software Engineer
Klipmart
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 2005 — August 2006 (9 months)
Designed, planned, scheduled, and developed all software projects, managing a multi-disciplinary team. Was involved in all company-wide technical decisions. Refactored and optimized database systems which supported tracking over 6.5 billion ad impressions. Led team in planning and design methodologies and through a conversion into a Ruby on Rails shop. Created and delivered presentations on new technology, database optimization, comparing tools and frameworks, software engineering, and programming puzzles. Technologies included Ruby on Rails, PHP, perl, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Linux.
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Lead Developer/Architect
Cydata Services
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 2 months)
Designed and implemented a clustered web spidering, indexing, and report generation system which accumulated and analyzed over 250 million inter-domain links on a monthly basis.
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Director of Emerging Technologies
Sunset Direct
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2002 — September 2004 (2 years )
Created a data driven personalization and marketing engine responsible for 30% increase in sales across the company with features including outcome tracking and automated creation and distribution of uniquely customized messages, in both email and PDF, to a database of over two million business decision makers. Managed sales planning and follow through for multiple marketing campaigns achieving over 15% email response rate using said engine. Developed a distributed compute server for checksumming 15 TB of multimedia data and was responsible for administration, build out, and procurement of 30 servers, 6 T1s, and 20 TB of data.
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Consultant
iCarnegie
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2002 — August 2002 (3 months)
Reduced company licensing costs by managing the transition from a Windows NT to Linux based back-office.
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Developer
Eizel
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2001 — June 2002 (1 year 1 month)
Implemented software to convert for display Word, PDF, Zip, Flash, and Power Point attachments across multiple PDA and mobile platforms.
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eXtreme Code Slinger
e-Cruise
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 5 months)
Developed functional specification and database schema for 175+ page dynamic website and created XML driven system for demo scripting and prototyping, as well as acting as the lead developer interfacing with a contract development team.
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Software Engineer
Claritech
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1997 — February 2000 (2 years 8 months)
Contributed as a member of a development team responsible for a text-mining, computational linguistics application
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