bmathews@mathews2000.com

Objective

I want to develop high quality software for an employer that values modern, quality software engineering techniques.

Summary

• Expert in C++ and object oriented design
• Strong advocate for quality software development
• 11 years of experience
• Worked on a large desktop C++ application in the manufacturing industry
• Experienced in quality techniques – TDD, refactoring, dependency analysis
• Database backed web applications and report generation scripts
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and techniques

Skills

• Expert - C++, OO techniques, physical architecture, MFC, Mercurial, Hudson, Glowcode
• Experienced – database design, Linux
• Familiarity - C#, XML, Apache, Perl, Java, ASP.Net

Career History

Wilcox Associates Inc

Software Engineer - Jul 2002 - Present

• Worked on a large (>450K LOC) MFC(C++) desktop application for the manufacturing industry
• Reduced build time by 59% after improving #include structure
• Mapped software output to DML, a complex XML standard
• Implemented an advanced graphical reporting engine and report design tool
• Performance optimization using Glowcode and other tools – implemented caching strategies and rewrote algorithms to improve efficiency
• Researched and implemented improved tools and practices – branching & merging, wiki, continuous integration, review techniques
• Converted and combined several legacy SourceSafe version control databases into mercurial
• Trained my company on mercurial usage and version control concepts
• Improved physical dependencies of code to reduce compile time
• Wrote monthly training article on software engineering techniques

Everyone.Net

Software Engineer - San Jose, CA - Jun 1999 - Apr 2002

• Developed and maintained a MySQL/Oracle/Perl/Apache backed web applications.
• Re-engineered HTML generation code to use templates. This simplified code and improved the consistency of the web site's look and feel.
• Modified Postfix and SASL to do SMTP authentication with a custom database. The modification interfaced the C based SASL security module with Java business logic.

TRW

Software Engineer - Sunnyvale, CA - May 1998 - Jun 1999

• Developed Perl report generation scripts to extract information from Clear Case and present it in a concise format.
• Learned Fortran, ADA, and a proprietary assembly language to analyze 3+ million lines of code for year 2000 problems

Education

Brigham Young University
Provo, UT - BS Computer Science - April 1998