Matt Kew

Current

• Sr. Application Developer at The Weather Channel Interactive
• Owner at Mir-Fabrik (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Internet Application Developer at The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc.; weather.com
• Interactive Developer at Realm Communications

Education

• The University of Georgia
• Georgia State University

Connections

50 connections

Industry

Broadcast Media

Matt Kew’s Summary

Award winning software developer maintaining the highest standards for quality of work produced.

2002 Published work in Real-Time Interactive 3D Games: Creating 3D Games in Macromedia Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio.

2003 Telly Award winner for multimedia excellence.

2005 Flash 8 Beta tester.

Versatile and creative minded developer able to architect dynamic, scalable, and maintainable applications.

Programming experience spans many programming disciplines including motion programming and image manipulation.

Multidisciplinary individual with extensive experience in Programming, Sound design, UI design, Architecture, and team leadership.

Matt Kew’s Specialties:

Deep understanding of OOP and design - Code re-usability - Event driven architecture - Software design patterns - Bandwidth and footprint conscious application development.

Languages: ActionScript 2.0 (3.0 in progress), Java, XML, XSLT, PHP, mySQL, Lingo.

Flash, Eclipse, Director, TextPad, SVN.

Rich Media and Design: Information architecture, UI design, Sound design, Photo manipulation, Graphic Design

Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Lightwave, Logic Audio, Cubase, Wavelab, Reactor.

Matt Kew’s Experience

• Sr. Application Developer

  The Weather Channel Interactive

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

• Owner

  Mir-Fabrik (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  March 2001 — Present (8 years 9 months)

• Internet Application Developer

  The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc.; weather.com

  (Broadcast Media industry)

  March 2004 — March 2007 (3 years 1 month)

• Interactive Developer

  Realm Communications

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

  March 2002 — March 2004 (2 years 1 month)

Matt Kew’s Education

• The University of Georgia

  Journalism , New Media Production , 1999 — 2000

• Georgia State University

  Physics 1994 — 1997

Additional Information

Matt Kew’s Interests:

Skateboarding, Surfing, Snowboarding, Fogo de Chao

Matt Kew’s Contact Settings

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