Matt Hixson
(360) 610-7053
Mount Vernon, WA
Professional Overview:
- Proficient at API design and implementation
- Skilled in object oriented design
- Know the value of writing maintainable software
- Experienced at maintaining legacy software and documenting inherited software projects - Successfully worked remotely with distributed teams over the span of my career
- Enjoy using open source software to solve business problems and reduce operating costs
Director of Information Technology
Action Pages
January 2018 – October 2019
As Director of Information Technology I put open source software to work for a small
company, saving them thousands of dollars on proprietary software and hardware solutions. I also automated mundane system administration tasks that provided a higher level of customer support by more quickly turning around user requests.
Senior Java Developer
Weka Solutions
July 2013 - July 2016
I maintained a social media monitoring app to improve performance and reduce
downtime for a system that ingested Twitter data from Gnip's Firehose API. I wrote and supported bash scripts which automated the spinup and teardown of virtual Linux machines in Microsoft's Azure cloud service. I also implemented APIs for other systems to consume internally.
Senior Developer
Spam Arrest LLC
April 2008 - July 2012
As Senior Developer I maintained and implemented new features in Java for an anti-
spam web based email system. My contributions increased scalability, improved performance, and reduced downtime for all aspects of this system from the database to JMS middleware servers to the Tomcat webservers. I also had a hand in improving their iOS application and a Thunderbird plugin.
Software Developer PIER Systems Inc.
Feb 2007 - Mar 2008
I worked on porting their crisis preparedness and communications platform from
ColdFusion to Java. As part of this effort I created a persistence API using Hibernate to model the existing application's database schema.
Software Developer
ActiveRain Corp.
Aug 2006 - Nov 2006
I implemented features and fixed issues in their existing J2EE platform. I also integrated TARGUSInfo lead verification system into their real estate software.
Senior Technical Consultant
CapitalStream Inc.
Oct 2005 - Aug 2006
I worked in the software development group of Professional Services. I was responsible for identifying and fixing bugs in a large enterprise Java financial system.
Owner and Senior Software Developer
UltramegaOK Inc.
Feb 2002 - Sept 2005
I designed, built, and maintained a J2EE-based Mobile Content Management and
Delivery system which let our client manage thousands of files from many different sources in a wide range of formats. This platform utilized Linux, PostgreSQL, Hibernate, EJB, XMLC, JBoss, Tomcat, and a number of open source Java projects.
Software Engineer
Aventail Corporation
Aug 2000 - Jan 2002
I developed web applications which ran on the Resin Application Server. These
applications included support tools for Network Operations personnel and customer facing web portals.