Director of Software Architecture at Comcast
Greater Philadelphia Area
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- Director of Software Architecture at Comcast
- Past
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- Director of Architecture at Comcast Interactive Media
- Chief Engineer at Sun Microsystems
- Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems
- Principal Consultant at Sun Microsystems
- Regional Practice Manager at Sun Microsystems
- Principal at ObjectStrategy
- Senior Consultant at NetDynamics
- Chief Architect at Naviant Technology
- Senior Consultant at MRJ Technology Solutions
- Edison Engineer at Lockheed Martin
- Education
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- Villanova University
- Villanova University
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Matt Stevens’s Summary
17 years technical leadership across engineering, services and system operations disciplines for global enterprises including General Electric, Netscape/iPlanet, Sun Microsystems, Comcast and many Internet ventures. Thought leader in high performance distributed system architecture, business system integration, software engineering and large scale web platforms. Recognized as top technical performer with practical, competitive strategies that influence the quality and agility of the team. Proven execution in a unique combination of leadership roles: production operations, professional services, systems integration, product engineering, research and learning. Special ability to lead teams through extreme challenges. Passion for finding and unlocking untapped business value through technical strategies. Unique capability to guide businesses through a paradigm shift by leveraging the edge of technology. Communication style based on values of dedication, excellence, integrity, accountability and transparency.
Currently leading critical and strategic technology projects at Comcast including producing the Comcast Developer Network and a secure web services platform that will radically change how systems integration is done and how products are developed.
Previously at Sun rotated through all aspects of Sun's business from customer facing, sales, evangelism, research and development and business system operations. Most recently directing global engineering organization in Sun Learning Services responsible for architecture, application development and data center operations governance in the face of aggressive consolidations, new deployments and integrations. Define the vision and architecture of next generation of eLearning systems. Change agent in how business is conducted and knowledge is captured through incorporation of agile, collaborative web technologies.
Matt Stevens’s Specialties:
Wed-scale services platforms, architectures business process management, business of APIs, secure web service design, client application platforms, identity management including federated identity integration, high performance CDN technology including highdef video and DRM, enterprise search, programmable web, scaleable engineering processes, quality assurance
Matt Stevens’s Experience
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Director of Software Architecture
Comcast
(Public Company; CMCSA; Broadcast Media industry)
August 2009 — Present (5 months)
Responsible for quality of software design and implementation strategy for both mission critical product systems and strategic software platform initiatives. This new leadership role, within the Comcast Office of the CTO, and part of an experienced engineering cadre reporting to the Comcast Chief Architect, provides technical governance and partner strategy for existing Comcast products and new initiatives including incorporating disruptive technologies into the overall software landscape. Primary focus is on Web Platform technology and how cross-platform systems are evolving within the premium media business. Delivering the Comcast Developer Network and a large-scale secure web services platform infrastructure.
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Director of Architecture
Comcast Interactive Media
(Public Company; CMCSA; Internet industry)
February 2008 — August 2009 (1 year 7 months)
In role of chief architect at CIM, led a team of senior architects responsible for technical governance of the engineering design, implementation and quality of the operational systems. Provide guidance to CIM executives to shape technology vision: lead the counsel and initiatives with strategic technology partners in areas including cloud computing (platform, infrastructure and software as a service), advanced CDN architectures, highdef+DRM video and large scale secure web services. Mentor senior engineers and product managers, developing their skills on software architecture (interface design) and business systems integration. Comcast properties included Comcast.net and Fancast.com
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Chief Engineer
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Software industry)
December 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 3 months)
Reporting the CTO lead business system integration, system operations and strategy while directing application design and development for Sun Learning Services' Global Engineering. Primary efforts are in revitalizing collaboration and business processes on read+Write web platform technology using enterprise search solutions and identity enabled composable web services.
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Senior Staff Engineer
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Software industry)
January 2001 — December 2006 (6 years )
As a senior staff engineer in software engineering responsibility is to lead technology innovation and direct product research, design and development. The staff engineering ranks at Sun are the backbone of the company and represent the technology momentum. Throughout the years in Netscape/iPlanet and recent years in Java Software engineering Matt took the lead in a broad spectrum of web platform technology research, product development and customer production operations.
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Principal Consultant
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Software industry)
January 1999 — December 2001 (3 years )
Consultant to Sun's Fortune 500 customers in all sectors in United States concentrating on large scale web application design and architecture and special expertise large scale production operations of NetDynamics and Netscape Java application servers and related technologies.
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Regional Practice Manager
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)
October 1998 — March 2000 (1 year 6 months)
Managed East Coast regional NetDynamics consulting professional service practice serving over 125 customers of Sun Microsystems with both Sun employees and partner.
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Principal
ObjectStrategy
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 4 months)
Prior to joining Sun Microsystems as Senior Manager and Principal Consultant I formed a small company which operated as Sun Partner in systems integration directly support key application server customers.
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Senior Consultant
NetDynamics
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1998 — September 1998 (3 months)
Joined NetDynamics Professional Services staff working East coast USA just before they were acquired by Sun Microsystems. Focus on Web 1.0 deployments of NetDynamics Java application server and related technology at Fortune 1000 customers and Web 1.0 startups.
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Chief Architect
Naviant Technology
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 6 months)
Originally a commercial division of MRJ Technology Solutions, Naviant spun off as a startup company focused on advanced CRM software products including Navimark. As chief architect I lead technical product development focusing on nascent web application technology using Java and C++ application servers and distributed object platforms integrated with data warehousing and multidimensional analysis solutions.
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Senior Consultant
MRJ Technology Solutions
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1994 — January 1997 (2 years 3 months)
The commercial enterprise of MRJ headquartered in Conshohocken PA was reorganized as Naviant Technologies with a concentration on 1:1 Marketing solutions such as CRM with Data Warehousing and Data Mining and a focus on developing software products and service solutions in this area.
So prior to role as Chief Architect of Naviant in 1995-1996 I worked as consultant on various system integration engagement including lead engineer on the innovative MRJ Web 0.0 team at Infonautics deploying one of the first source retrieval on the Internet when eCommerce and application servers had to be coded from scratch or with frameworks (if you were lucky). -
Edison Engineer
Lockheed Martin
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LMT; Defense & Space industry)
January 1992 — October 1994 (2 years 10 months)
Prior to the acquisition by Martin Marietta and Lockeed of GE's Aerospace division, participated in the prestigious General Electric Edison Engineering Program. As a member of this technical leadership development program rotated through five different advanced projects over 3 years and completed the infamous GE Advanced Courses in computer engineering while attending graduate school part-time. Focus was on classified aerospace projects in M&DSO .
Matt Stevens’s Education
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Villanova University
Masters , Computer Engineering , 1992 — 1996
Combined program with GE Aeropsace Advanced Courses and primary focus on Intelligent Systems and distributed object computing.
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- Master's Thesis
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Villanova University
Bachelor of Science , Electrical Engineering , 1988 — 1992
Special studies in optics, computer graphics and object-oriented programming
Individual senior project: toolkit for optical ray-tracing
Intern at GE Aerospace M&DSO- Activities and Societies:
- Rowing, Girlfriend, Resident Assistent
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Eagle Scout
