About

Matthew is the Managing Director and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Redpoint Technologies, a technology services firm that solves complex business problems using leading-edge technologies and agile best practices.

Matthew is passionate about technology and has more than 16 years of experience designing and delivering complex, mission-critical technology solutions using a broad spectrum of technologies. He is energetic and has a proven track record providing technology direction to IT and business executives in a variety of industries such as energy, financial services/trading, travel & transportation, software product development, e-commerce/security, HR, retail, wireless communications, insurance, manufacturing and content management/publishing. Matthew provides technology, methodology and process direction for key clients and is ultimately accountable for all project deliveries.

www.redpointtech.com

With experience designing and building both J2EE- and .NET-based systems, Matthew is able to design innovative architectures for mission-critical systems across disparate platforms. He is an advocate for lightweight, streamlined architectures that provide a robust runtime environment while reducing system complexity and development effort. Recent designs have focused on SOA and web services to bridge the gap between incompatible technologies and the use of AJAX to drastically enhance the end-user experience. By leveraging industry best practices, open source initiatives, and agile methodologies, Matthew is able to reduce the cost and risk for large software development initiatives.

Prior to joining Redpoint, Matthew was a founder of an Internet Consulting Group, Pilotstone, in the Chicagoland area. In addition, Matthew designed, built and lead an agile development team building front-, middle- and back-office systems for BP’s energy trading business unit. He started his career as a consultant for Arthur Andersen.

He is an enthusiastic practitioner of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) since 2006 and released an open source 2 minute timer to the GTD community.

Matthew is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and enjoys many activities such as kayaking, climbing, mountaineering, programming, microcontrollers, writing, volunteering, boat building, woodworking, experimenting with electronics and spending time with his family.