Matthew Wensing

Current

• Co-founder at Stormpulse.com

Past

• Project Manager at The Palm Beach Post
• Software Developer at McMaster-Carr Supply Co.

Education

• University of Chicago

Recommended

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Connections

109 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Portfolio
• Stormpulse Advanced

Matthew Wensing’s Summary

Father. Husband. Christian. Entrepreneur. Web Developer. Hurricane-tracker.

Matthew Wensing’s Specialties:

Information visualization, data aggregation, information architecture, the display and navigation of product information, user experience design.

Matthew Wensing’s Experience

• Co-founder

  Stormpulse.com

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  Created an automatically-updating hurricane-tracking website with pan-and-zoom mapping functionality written in ActionScript on a Python, MySQL, and Linux back-end. The site continuously gathers data from multiple data sources and intelligently synthesizes them into a single, modular web page. The interactive map may be freely embeded on other websites through a simple JavaScript include with a RESTful URL.

• Project Manager

  The Palm Beach Post

  (Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

  August 2007 — May 2009 (1 year 10 months)

  Lead the technical team that created geospatial real estate site consisting of 2,500+ real-world neighborhoods. Built on Django 1.0.

• Software Developer

  McMaster-Carr Supply Co.

  (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Warehousing industry)

  February 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 7 months)

  Web Publishing (Systems Dept.):
  Developed back-end software and front-end interfaces aimed at intelligently responding to our customers as they search through over 4,000 pages of catalog content containing over 400,000 products. Authored ‘Layout Engine’ (VB.NET) from scratch to perform the work of catalog layout artists at run-time.
  
  Information Architect / Web Designer (Merchandising Dept.):
  Constructed searchable taxonomies through the decomposition of complex industrial products into shared and unique, structured and unstructured attributes.
  Formulated and defended business logic behind the description, classification, and ordering of product information online in light of customer behaviors and browsing
  patterns.

Matthew Wensing’s Education

• University of Chicago

  A.B. , Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities , 2000 — 2003

  Wrote undergraduate thesis: ‘The Art of the World Wide Web: A Uniform Experiential Framework for Effective Design.’ Departmental honors, ISHUM; General honors in the College. Dean’s List, 00-01, 02-03.

  Activities and Societies:

  College Programming Office (CPO) Assistant, Computer Science Instructional Lab (Tutor), Residential Computing Assistant, Model U.N., Chicago Maroon (student newspaper) Webmaster.

Additional Information

Matthew Wensing’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Portfolio
• Stormpulse Advanced

Matthew Wensing’s Interests:

information design, hurricanes, weather, architecture, programming, python, lisp, scheme, recursion, functional programming, css, xhtml, maps, geography, black and white photography, the history of computing, new urbanism, the hyperlocal web

Matthew Wensing’s Groups:

news.YC (Hacker News): wensing

•    Hacker News

Matthew Wensing’s Honors:

Undergraduate Francis X. Kinahan Memorial Prize for innovative academic work in the Humanities, The University of Chicago.

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