926 Dacian Ave, Apt 105 · Durham, NC 27701 · Home: 919-667-0550 · Work: 919-530-1911 · mattdesvoigne@yahoo.com · http://www.gracelutheranchurch.net
300 W Morgan St, Ste 1100 · Durham, NC 27701

Matthew Desvoigne

Experience

  Grace Lutheran Church
  May 2004 - Present Financial Secretary Durham, NC
 
· Record weekly offerings from congregation members and visitors.
· Author mid-year and year-end acknowledgement letters and giving statements to congregation members.
· Report weekly church income to church council.
  Shodor Education Foundation
  October 2002 - Present Computational Scientist Durham, NC
 
· QA Manager and Lead Developer for a team of nine high school and undergraduate interns for Project Interactivate, Shodor Education Foundation. Main focus on mentoring student work, testing for quality, and migrating student work to a test environment.
· Program Manager, Business Systems Analyst, and Lead Developer in several contract agreements with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (http://www.shodor.org/nctm).
· Authored test scripts for over one hundred educational applets.
· Control development environments from intern development to corporate staging environment.
· Maintain and enhance internal company management tools (company calender, employee punchclock), utilizing PERL, PHP, and JavaScript.
· Maintenance of UNIX operating systems and served as a backup System Administrator.
  Apex Learning
  June 1996 - October 2001 Software Engineer Bellevue, WA
 
· Joined a software development team of seven in developing a Java 2 Enterprise Application to deploy gigabytes of online course material to thousands of customers. Product is used today to deploy four times the amount of material as the previous year and reduce operations labor costs involved in copying content to production servers by 75%.
· Coordinated with ten Program Managers, Business Systems Analysts, Instructional Designers, Technical Writers, and Software Architect to determine project functionality within development timelines.
· Within three months of starting my first position, received written commendation from executive management for strong design, programming, and leadership skills.
· Strong written communication skills in both creating technical specifications and release notes.

· Database Programming
· Contributed to authoring stored procedures used by a web application to display customer-facing reports.
· Designed, implemented, and maintained a database to support an online activity allowing middle-school students to submit short-answer essays.

· Technical Expertise Details
· Authored Java Server Pages with Dreamweaver 4.0.
· Client Side Java Programming
Contributed to development of a student activity type consisting of a client-side Java applet customized by instructional designers.

· Active Server Pages / Database Programming
· Developed ASP application using Visual Interdev 6.0 allowing students to submit short-answer essays and for a course instructor to view and grade student responses online. Designed database to store and retrieve student responses.
· Web Design / Java Script / DHTML
· Built static and dynamic web pages both by hand and using Dreamweaver 4.0.
  Oregon State University
  September 1996 - June 1999 Teaching Assistant Corvallis, OR
 
· Publically recognized by school advisor as receiving the best teaching evaluation advisor had seen in his twenty-five year career.
· Taught phycics laboratory session to school undergraduates.
· Held individual physics tutoring sessions, group tutoring sessions, and pre-exam review sessions.
Education

  Oregon State University
  June 1999 Master of Science
Computational Physics
Corvallis, OR
 
- Strong education in both System Administration and Educational Software Development.

· Emphasis on Database Management

· Computer Science minor

· Student of nationally acclaimed Online Physics Education instructor and developer, Rubin Landau

  Pacific Lutheran University
  May 1996 Bachelor of Science
Applied Physics
Tacoma, WA
 
- Computer Science minor, comparable to a basic programming certificate.

· Liberal Arts education with emphasis on person exploration in Physics.

Volunteer Experience

 
· http://www.gracelutheranchurch.net
· Devoloped and currently maintain church website, conducting monthly updates.
· Website fosters publicity for the church and enhances my communication and interpersonal skills.