Chief Developer at MyVbo
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- Director of Technology at MyVBO
- Past
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- Director of Technology at Icovia
- Principal Microsoft Developer at PC Connection
- Senior Software Engineer at Elephantx Dot Com
- Independant Consulting Engineer at Envision Development Corporation
- Independant Consulting Engineer at Image Data LLC
- Consulting Engineer at New Technology Partners
- Software Release Engineer at mercury Computer Systems
- Senior Software Engineer at IDX Systems Corporation
- Education
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- Clarkson University
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Matthew "M@" Sheppard’s Summary
"The Guy"
Director of Technology, Application Developer, Database Administrator, and Project Manager in a wide variety of business applications. Engineering education and front line experience. Interested in hard problems and uncharted territory.
Matthew "M@" Sheppard’s Specialties:
Flex 3.0, Actionscript, Subversion, Trac, SQL (Microsoft, MySQL), C#, C, C++, PHP, Java, Dot Net, Javascript, VB6.0, XML/XSLT, HTML/CSS, Oracle, Mumps, Perl, Tcl/Ex, HTML, PHP, Windows, Solaris, Z80&6809 Assembly
Certified ScrumMaster (2005)
Matthew "M@" Sheppard’s Experience
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Director of Technology
MyVBO
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Lead Software Engineer
Project Manager (6 person team)
Architect
Designer
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Director of Technology
Icovia
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — April 2008 (2 years )
You name it, I did it
Investigate and implement new technologies
Application Architecture
Flex/ActionScript/DotNet Development
Web services
SQL 2005 (significant XML functionality)
Many operational duties revolving around a small shop doing big development.
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Principal Microsoft Developer
PC Connection
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; PCCC; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1999 — April 2006 (6 years 7 months)
Extensive Enterprise Windows Smart Forms and Web Development in C#/.Net.
All aspects of eCommerce enabled website, from CSS down to T-SQL. Web Site makes extensive use of Microsoft Content management. I was the core developer in making the more complex implementations of the CMS API.
Enterprise Class windows form application development, lead developer on User Interface tier of application. Managed group of up to 5 other developers. Implemented the Scrum development methodology. -
Senior Software Engineer
Elephantx Dot Com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)
February 2001 — December 2001 (11 months)
Developed high availability, high throughput applications in supporting alternative stock trading systems. Platforms include Java, C++, VB6, SQL Server 8.0
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Independant Consulting Engineer
Envision Development Corporation
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 6 months)
Contractor with primary client. Developed Legal Staffing Database. Developed Commerce Enabled website. Various other small projects. Platforms: VB5, SQL 6.5, Access, Front Page, Commerce Server
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Independant Consulting Engineer
Image Data LLC
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1998 — March 1999 (5 months)
Developed testing application to exercise several software and hardware components, using multi-threaded applications and statistical analysis. Platforms: C++, MFC, NT4.0
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Consulting Engineer
New Technology Partners
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
September 1997 — May 1998 (9 months)
Worked as contractor to primary client Arqule developing user interface and object model for chemical synthesis robotic device applications. Lead Architect for Device Control Application Development. Programmed Business and User Services. Platforms: VB5, SQL6.5 and Oracle, Tcl/EX
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Software Release Engineer
mercury Computer Systems
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1996 — September 1997 (1 year 1 month)
Develop distributed example code for MCos, a real-time multicomputer proprietary operation system, exercising the interprocess communication systems application programmer interfaces, scientific algorithm libraries and other operating system APIs. Platform = C, Solaris. Assisted in development of in-house performance monitoring software.
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Senior Software Engineer
IDX Systems Corporation
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IDXC; Computer Software industry)
July 1993 — June 1996 (3 years )
Entered organization as a Support Engineer and exited as Senior Software Engineer. Developed Clinical Management Systems in Visual Basic 4.0. Integrated with Microsoft SQL Server 6.5. Three Tiered Object Oriented Development Strategy. Worked on User Interface and Business Layer. Platform = VB4, SQL6.5, C++, MTS, Mumps, VMS
Matthew "M@" Sheppard’s Education
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Clarkson University
Computer Science 1988 — 1993
- Activities and Societies:
- Tau Epsilon Phi
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Matthew "M@" Sheppard’s Interests:
back country skiing, piano, model aviation, boston red sox
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New Hampshire Software Professionals
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