Matthew Round

Current

• Managing Director at Amazon Development Centre, Scotland

Past

• Director of Software Development at Amazon.com
• Director of Personalization at Amazon.com
• Manager, Software Development at Amazon.com

• Software Developer at Amazon.com
• Development Manager at D. E. Shaw
• Software Developer at D. E. Shaw & Co.
• Software Engineer at Brittish Telecom

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Education

• Warwick University

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Industry

Internet

Matthew Round’s Summary

Extremely technical senior manager with strong business, project and product skills able to own business problems and lead teams to deliver end-to-end. Proactive natural leader, highly creative, extremely pragmatic, outstanding communicator.

Principal fields of expertise are eCommerce, website personalization and web-based applications, while having a strong financial background.

Matthew Round’s Specialties:

Personalization, eCommerce, data-driven merchandising, website UI and design, business analysis, management, entrepreneurship, leadership, proactivity, system architecture, C++, Java, Perl, SQL, high performance and massive scale web-based applications.

Matthew Round’s Experience

• Managing Director

  Amazon Development Centre, Scotland

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; AMZN; Internet industry)

  June 2004 — Present (4 years 5 months)

  Responsible for establishing Amazon Development Centre, Scotland (a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon.com) including full responsibility for the start-up, team building, project selection and overseeing implementation.
  
  Amazon Development Centre (Scotland) is located in Edinburgh, and is responsible for imagining and producing innovative new website features for Amazon's global family of websites. It will be primarily concerned with innovating, prototyping and productionizing software related to data driven merchandising.
  
  We are urgently seeking highly skilled software engineers and candidates for a small number of other positions - please visit our website www.amazondc.com for further details.

• Director of Software Development

  Amazon.com

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Internet industry)

  October 2003 — May 2004 (8 months)

  Working on secret internal projects while scheming about my next steps with Amazon.

• Director of Personalization

  Amazon.com

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Internet industry)

  May 2001 — September 2003 (2 years 5 months)

  Responsible for all business and technical aspects of personalization (customer-specific merchandising) across all Amazon sites, managing a growing team of cross-functional contributors. Responsibility grew to include a large fleet of automation technologies including website content management, email channel management and data-driven merchandising.

• Manager, Software Development

  Amazon.com

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Internet industry)

  June 2000 — May 2001 (1 year)

  Responsible for a small team of software engineers in Amazon.com's personalization group. Developing massively scaleable highly reliable systems which deliver real time personalized customer experiences to the website using a variety of unix-based technologies, making some key contributions to the company's platform. Growing business and product involvement.

• Software Developer

  Amazon.com

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Internet industry)

  August 1999 — June 2000 (11 months)

  Developing massively scaleable highly reliable systems which deliver real time personalized customer experiences to the website using a variety of unix-based technologies. Principal development in C++ / SQL / Perl.

• Development Manager

  D. E. Shaw

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Investment Management industry)

  January 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 8 months)

  Managing a small group of developers supporting and building various live trading systems while still heavily involved in software development personally. Responsible for all aspects of the development lifecycle including project management, research, system and database design, coding, testing and support. Developing in Java , C, and Tcl/Tk.

• Software Developer

  D. E. Shaw & Co.

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Investment Management industry)

  October 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 4 months)

  Designing, developing, testing and supporting trading systems including a 24x7 foreign exchange system built from the ground up with all front and back office components. Sole engineer for development and support of the system which went live within 3 months of the start of development and had an annual trade turnover of $40 billion. Developing in C and Tcl/Tk/[incr tcl].

• Software Engineer

  Brittish Telecom

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  September 1995 — October 1996 (1 year 2 months)

  Hired by BT on completion of degree sponsorship with them. Developing components of BT's network-based speech application platform (ISAP), subsequently working on a high-speed satellite-based internet service. Development was in C++.

Matthew Round’s Education

• Warwick University

  BSc, Computer Science, September 1992 — June 1995

  1st class

  Activities and Societies:

  Revelation, viking reenactment

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