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mterry/README.md

Matthew A. Terry

Solutions Architect and Developer/Operator

Contact

Objective

I am a solutions architect, entrepreneur, and software developer looking for a position where my passion for technology, people, and transformation will be viewed as an asset. I specifically seek architect- or solution-level positions where I leverage my talents and skills in consulting with customers, collaborating with engineers and stakeholders to develop new solutions, move markets, and delight customers.

Who Am I?

I am an avid technologist, programmer, and writer. I desire to explore, understand, and navigate complex environments and problems existing in complex environments, and ultimately create solutions to those same problems or environmental factors. I strive to not stop gaps, but solve fundamental problems. I have a wide base of knowledge, skills, and experience to lean on to innovate, design, and develop solutions and strategies, and communicate those same solutions with the key stakeholders regardless of their background.

I am passioned, but headstrong. I am dedicated, tenacious, goal-oriented. I strive to not just succeed, instead I aim to excel. I am driven to delight customers.

Skills and Experience

Skills

  • Designing and documenting enterprise IT, application, and storage infrastructure for public sector and commercial accounts
  • Collaborating with project and business stakeholders regardless of level of knowledge or background
  • Requirements capture, options analysis, requirement-based design, managing solution deployment, and verifying compliance against requirements as technical authority and consultant
  • Customer, partner, OEM suppliers presentations and public speaking
  • Supply chain, logistics, procurement for large enterprise and public sector
  • Digital transformation of enterprise IT and public sector businesses
    • Cloud, Software-Defined
  • C/C , C#, Python, MASM/GAS, Git, SQL, JS
    • Embedded/IoT/driver development
    • Web Service/API development
    • GPGPU and graphics pipeline development
    • Familiarity with AI/ML/DL development
    • Verbose commenter
  • Server administration on baremetal or virtualized under Linux (RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Gentoo), Windows Server
  • Application and microservice containerization
  • vSphere, Docker, KVM, k8s, Ansible, Puppet, Azure, Git
  • Storage design and networking
    • FC, FCoE, iSCSI, SMB, NFS, HDFS, S3, Centera/Atmos/ECS API
  • Hadoop, Kafka, MongoDB, Cassandra
  • Agile, Scrum, XP, UML

Experience

Senior Partner Solutions Consultant
  • Dell Canada (formerly EMC Corporation of Canada)
  • August 2012 to present
  • Responsible for technical education and enablement of channel partners, with current and historical coverage of the Canadian Government, Eastern Ontario commercial and enterprise, Atlantic Canada commercial and enterprise, and Ontario public sector markets. Role includes planning and execution of channel technical strategy, presenting to customers and partners on new solutions, developing architectures for emerging technologies, and providing presales training and support for channel resources at Dell's solution provider partners. Extended and expanded my knowledge-base into specialised enterprise IT domains, such as DevOps, container-based architectures, and enterprise edge analytics.
.Net Software Developer
  • Wired Solutions
  • May 2012 to August 2012
  • Key developer in ASP.Net and ASP MVC frameworks, creating responsive web applications in C#, .Net, and MSSQL Server 2008R2, focused primarily on implementing business logic and data access layers for several client projects.
Lead System Administrator, Student Operated Computing Resources
  • University of Windsor
  • 2010 to 2011
  • Responsible for leading the administration of the SOCR servers, including managing the transformation from baremetal to fully virtualized platform leveraging KVM. Led a team of three handling day-to-day operations, from user account management, storage quotas, application rollouts, security hardening, etc.
Instructor
  • Lancer Summer Camps, University of Windsor
  • 2010-2011
  • Responsible for teaching children aged 10 to 14 how to design and build video games through the "Great Games for Kids" summer camp. Curriculum consisted of basic logic, game design, artificial intelligence, and multiplayer concepts using Microsoft Research's Kodu project. Teaching methods focused largely on creative/design thinking led by critical analysis and problem solving.
Staff Cartoonist
  • The Lance, University of Windsor
  • 2010-2012
Student Reporter
  • Winchester Press
  • May 2008 to August 2008
Desk Staff
  • University of Windsor Residence Life
  • 2008-2009
Product Specialist (seasonal)
  • Future Shop
  • 2008
Director of Communications, Windsor Inter-Residence Council
  • University of Windsor
  • 2006
Animation Intern
  • Leaping Raster
  • 2004

Education and Certifications

Education

  • 2006-2012: University of Windsor
    • B.Cs. Applied Computing
      • Thesis project on machine semantic understanding and ontological analysis of data
    • B.A. English Language and Literature
      • Specialized in rhetoric
  • 2005-2006: Algonquin College
    • General Arts & Science: Pre-Animation
  • 2001-2005: Seaway District High School, Iroquois ON
    • Ontario Secondary School Diploma

Certifications

  • S1 Clearance
  • DCS-CA Cloud Architect, Virtualized Infrastructure Specialist v1
  • EMCTA Technology Architect, Isilon Infrastructure Specialist
  • DCS-TA Technology Architect, VNX Solutions Specialist v7
  • DCS-TA Technology Architect, Midrange Storage Solutions v1
  • Dell EMC USPEED certified
  • DCA-ISM Information Storage Associate v2

Volunteer and community experience

  • Ottawa Catholic School Board
  • Katimavik-Hazeldean Community Association
  • Extra Life
  • The Lance (UoW student newspaper)
    • Arts & Sciences volunteer writer
  • Student Operated Computing Resources
    • Former President, Vice-President
  • UoW Computer Science Society
    • Former Vice President

Interests

  • Photography, especially analog/film
  • Tabletop games (RPGs, Board Games, Miniature Wargaming)
  • Programming
    • Emergent behaviour simulations
    • Embedded/IOT/driver development (Windows/Linux, RPI, Arduino)
    • Video games
  • Camping, travelling
  • Reading, writing
    • Science fiction mostly; Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Warren Ellis, Cory Doctorow, Iain M. Banks, Frank Herbert, Larry Niven, Isaac Asimov
    • Creative non-fiction, poetry, stageplay scripts
  • Whatever strikes my fancy (currently the stock markets)

Portfolios and Professional References

Personal or professional letters of reference and artwork, code, writing, and photography portfolios available upon request.

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