I've been working as a web and application developer for over 17 years, with experience in a wide range of industries, and a skillset which includes UI/UX, graphic design, and programming. I am the co-author of the books "Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile" and "jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials", and I have written for online publications such as Adobe, NetTuts and .NET Magazine. I'm a frequent speaker at conferences around the country, and I have developed software for the open source community. I blog at andyMatthews.net, I tweet at @commadelimited, and I live in Nashville, TN with my wife and 4 children.
Senior Software Engineer @ Develop and refine tools for event organizers. Growth development (SEO) for Eventbrite properties. Helping to increase organic search traffic from bots and search engines. Worked on several service oriented architecure (SOA) projects which allowed Eventbrite to abstract code from our core application. From July 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Greater Nashville Areafounder | main man @ I develop standards compliant websites, content management systems, and internet applications. From February 2003 to Present (12 years 9 months) Greater Nashville AreaSoftware Developer @ I build compelling applications for the clients at Emma! From September 2012 to July 2014 (1 year 11 months) Greater Nashville AreaUser Experience Director @ - Architect of the Goba.mobi web and application experience
- Front end web application design and development
- jQuery Mobile developer From November 2010 to September 2012 (1 year 11 months) Greater Nashville AreaSenior Application Developer @ Responsibilities
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• I was a key part of the entire software design process for application development including scoping and timelining, design and development, business deployment and marketing.
• I mentored junior level, and other senior level, developers.
• I wrote detailed technical and user documentation.
• I was one of two authors of the Dealerskins coding guidelines and best practices handbook.
• I acted as liason between the development team and other departments.
Accomplishments
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• I designed and developed an AJAX application which integrated with 3rd party web services to allow car dealerships to post vehicles classified ads to Craigslist.
• I was lead architect and designer of a custom Flex application for statistical reporting.
• I saved Dealerskins $224,000 per year in licensing fees by writing an AJAX coupon application.
• I wrote an HTML/JS/Blaze DS based AIR application which allowed management to broadcast messages to all employees simultaneously.
• I improved employee record storage and retrieval by designing and developing an employee directory AIR application written in Flex and AS3.
Technologies
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• ColdFusion, JavaScript, jQuery, Flex, ActionScript, Blaze DS, Flash, AIR, SQL, XML. From January 2007 to November 2010 (3 years 11 months)
Andy Matthews is skilled in: jQuery, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, HTML, Mobile Applications, SQL, jQuery Mobile, MySQL, Python, Web Development, Web Design, Photoshop, PostgreSQL, Flask