Matt Perez

Current

COO at Nearsoft, Inc

Past

SVP Engineering at Compassoft, Inc.
SVP Operations at SCI Solutions
General Manager, Patient Scheduling Division at Per-Sé Technologies

Sr Director, Solaris OS / Director, Graphics & Multimedia Software / Manager, Graphics Hardware at Sun Microsystems

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Education

University of Illinois at Chicago

Recommended

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Connections

403 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Matt Perez’s Summary

Matt Pérez is COO at Nearsoft, a software product development innovation partner with operations in Mexico. We work with ISVs, SaaS companies and consumer-facing sites.

Clients come to us because they are,

* Disappointed with offshore development
* Frustrated that they can’t find developers with the right skills
* Upset because they can’t scale their software development team
* Tired of late product releases and poor quality

Thanks to our software engineering approach and experience, we help our clients get their products (and their companies) out to market faster. And we have the track record to prove it, with clients like Axolotl, INgrooves (UMG), MTV3SD, TierraNatal and others.

If you have 53 seconds to spare, learn all about Nearsoft by watching the this movie http://www.nearsoft.com/nearsoft-quick-intro

Matt Perez’s Specialties:

Software Product Development:
* Agile design and development
* QA automation and testing

Mobile development
* iPhone
* Android

Awards:
* Most Democratic Workplace, 2009
* Great Places to Work, Top 10, 2008 & 2009

Matt Perez’s Experience

COO

Nearsoft, Inc

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

Nearsoft provides high-tech product companies the benefits of software development outsourcing while minimizing the risks through experienced local project management and a work force, in Mexico and Costa Rica, that is two time zones away, instead of twelve.

Matt Perez leads the company and has a successful track record of managing outsourced software projects for many high-tech companies including Sun Microsystems and several start ups. He will help you specify your requirements and then will make sure that his nearshore engineers deliver on time, on budget and with high quality.

We won't let you fail. We've been on your side of the table and have learned, the hard way how to successfully outsource software development.
SVP Engineering

Compassoft, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2002 — May 2005 (3 years)

Venture-backed business that delivers enterprise-class Change Management and Impact Analysis software for organizations of any size. $6.5M investment; 19 employees.

Responsible for all product development activities, including engineering, QA, and user documentation.

Delivered multiple versions of innovative, complex software while building a very senior team from scratch, including two PhDs. Managed multiple locations including engineers in the Sacramento area and Denver and the outsourced QA team in India.
SVP Operations

SCI Solutions

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

1998 — 2002 (4 years)

A venture-backed Application Service Provider (ASP) that delivers Patient Scheduling and Access Management software for healthcare. $43M investment; 110 employees.

Responsible for all product development activities, including engineering, QA, and user documentation as well as customer support and implementation, and hosting.

Delivered very aggressive, monthly releases of the software, including an Internet-based integration platform. Managed multiple locations including engineers in Los Gatos, customer support and implementation in Tucson, a QA team in Santa Rosa.
General Manager, Patient Scheduling Division

Per-Sé Technologies

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years)

Patient scheduling and Materials Management for healthcare organizations. Annual revenue of over $27M; highly profitable.

Responsible for product development, customer and field support.

Turned around the existing product’s quality. Added much needed functionality. Established development and productization processes to assure predictability and high quality.
Sr Director, Solaris OS / Director, Graphics & Multimedia Software / Manager, Graphics Hardware

Sun Microsystems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)

1986 — 1995 (9 years)

SR DIRECTOR, SOLARIS OS

Delivered Solaris, the leading UNIX system.

Responsible for the development of the Operating System and for the integration and release of all other software components. Managed over 200 people, $22M budget, including an outsourced team in Russia. Brought much needed control to the delivery process.

DIRECTOR, GRAPHICS AND MULTIMEDIA SOFTWARE

Created the multimedia strategy and delivered multimedia, graphics, and windows products.

Outsourced sustaining activities that reduced annual expenses by over $1 million. Licensed cutting-edge technology (NURBS) to HP. Managed over 200 people, $20M budget, with offices in California and North Carolina.

MANAGER, GRAPHICS HARDWARE

Delivered CXP graphics workstation; generated over $25M in incremental business.