Matthew Kerr

Current

• Software Engineer II, Network Applications and Systems Engineering at International Game Technology

Past

• Programmer at High Voltage Interactive
• Intern at Contra Costa County

Education

• California State University-East Bay
• California State University-Hayward
• University of California, Santa Barbara

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company

Matthew Kerr’s Summary

Goal:
Strive to design cutting-edge software using intelligent engineering.

Matthew Kerr’s Specialties:

Cryptography and Network Security, Service-Oriented Architecture, High-Performance/Reliability Systems

Matthew Kerr’s Experience

• Software Engineer II, Network Applications and Systems Engineering

  International Game Technology

  (Public Company; IGT; Gambling & Casinos industry)

  August 2006 — Present (3 years)

  • MSF Agile, Scrum, Software Design Patterns, SOA
  
  • C# .Net 3.0/3.5 (WCF, WPF), VS05/08, Resharper, Team Build 2008
  
  • Optimized high performance VLDB system in SQL Server 2005. Wrote SSIS packages and remote SQL Agent scripting.
  
  • Wrote deployment documentation for SCEP, OCSP servers in Server 2008 PKI infrastructure. Conducted training personal and large group training sessions.
  
  • Wrote OCSP client implementation for XP and Server 2003.
  
  • Help lead a small team in a very large department project, coping with aggressive deadlines and both state or jurisdictional regulatory bodies and casino management customers driving requirements.
  
  • Lead interdepartmental task force on adopting a standards-based multiplatform communications security infrastructure.
  
  • Served as a point of contact for outside competing vendors and software suppliers for interoperability testing.
  
  • In-depth knowledge of the Gaming Standards Association (GSA) Game-to-System (G2S) Protocol, and Point-to-Point Transport Security specification.
  
  • Nevada Gaming Card Clearance

• Programmer

  High Voltage Interactive

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  July 2005 — August 2006 (1 year 2 months)

  • C#/ASP.Net, Perl
  • DHTML, CSS, Javascript
  - Data-driven forms with complex validation
  
  • Microsoft SQL 2000 Administration, Reporting
  - T-SQL Stored Procedures
  
  • Excel - Multitab-referencing spreadsheets

• Intern

  Contra Costa County

  (Computer Software industry)

  1998 — 1998 (less than a year)

Matthew Kerr’s Education

• California State University-East Bay

  MS , Computer Science , 2004 — 2007

  Activities and Societies:

  Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms Research (GEAR) Group

• California State University-Hayward

  BS , Computer Science , 2002 — 2003

  Activities and Societies:

  Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms Research (GEAR) Group

• University of California, Santa Barbara

  BS , Computer Science , 1998 — 2001

Additional Information

Matthew Kerr’s Websites:

• My Company

Matthew Kerr’s Interests:

computer games, computer hardware, skiing

Matthew Kerr’s Groups:

•    California State University, East Bay Alumni
•    International Game Technology

Matthew Kerr’s Honors:

USPTO #pending "Gaming Machine Certificate Creation and Management"

Matthew Kerr’s Contact Settings

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