P: 407.694.8281
Matt Caron
E: matt@8bitorange.net A: 352 Brassie Dr, Orlando, FL 32804 W: www.8bitorange.net
When: 2009 - Current :: Where: UCF :: What: Manager of Web Development
Description:
Manage team of 6 in all product development, support and marketing.
Lead team in an Agile environment where constant iteration is encouraged.
Planned, designed and continue to develop single login system for department to manage IT and
personnel ticketing system. Content management and user management. It is a set of internal tools for
all staff that is extendable to house further applications.
Currently planning and developing external API for single login system for external applications to
communicate with single login system data Setup development environment with Subversion repository
and trained devs on use.
Created design documentation to make multi-dev environment fluid and easy to transition new devs.
Planned rollout of new shared hosting server for all staff and organizations. Manage the web servers,
all debian based with LAMP environments.
When: 2005 - Current :: Where: 8bitOrange :: What: Owner/Developer
Description:
Planned and developed media management and delivery site for ESPN Outdoors. Manages over
14,000 images, 2,000 news articles and 2,000 multi-level access users. Built in CakePHP with custom
image resizing, on the fly caching and worked with Amazon S3 system to store the large full size (200k
to 10mb) files and built a custom helper to work with amazons API. Utilized jQuery to give users the
most fluid experience while browsing and searching for images and news stories.
Created magazine site in CakePHP with thousands of posts and articles. Worked with Facebook
connect to allow users coming from the Facebook group to login and comment on posts. Used jQuery
to help with initial page load time, spacing out loads of content blocks that were not needed initially on
view.
Used jQuery to heavily customize Wordpress for a large agency in Florida.
When: 2007 - 2008 :: Where: .Com Marketing :: What: Web Developer
Description:
Led small team in development and maintenance of consumer facing sites.
Built custom party booking engine for largest chain of McDonalds restaurants in Florida, using
CakePHP and google maps and search API to allow customers to locate closest locations and
complete booking.
Related Experience
When: 2006 - 2007 :: Where: Rollins College :: What: Graphic Designer
When: 2005 - 2006 :: Where: Chrissy Stevens Design :: What: Jr. Graphic Designer
Education
Where: University of Central Florida :: When: 1999 - 2005 :: What: B.A. Digital Media, Minor Comp Sci