Matt Prokes

Alright, so after many rounds of layoffs I was finally let go today, i had a good run (almost 3 years). So I think I am ok with it, in-fact I saw many great fellow employees go today and I can completely understand. From what I was told, I have skill sets in almost all areas of tech, so picking up a new gig shouldn’t, hopefully be so bad.

Anyway cutting to the chase, I am looking for employment in the twin cities, minnesota area.

I have a great track record, and my former bosses will vouch for it. I have lead the UI architecture/projects for many many things over the years, I have also been on back-end teams particularly in data ingestion, tagging, and syndication systems. My career has a basis in building world class internet products/properties, thus being hired by a world class company like internet broadcasting .

In my early years at the company I was the professional services lead for NBC & Universal Studios, it was my job to manage, and develop software for their news properties coast to coast, work with offshore and my colleagues. I have built systems such as advertising, display, and more. Later, I was migrated to the core tools group and developed several systems and tools that are core to the business at ib, these tools are used by some of the largest media companies in the united states today to deliver content to nearly 1/2 a billion people a month.

From what I understand one of the core reasons I was laid off was basically due to the fact I was the low man on the totem pole, my list of developed products (while extensive) was not as lengthy as say a 6-7 year veteran.

I am also an indy-author as many of you probably know, and if you want to know my views on various technical subjects you can find them here. Check out my bio if you are looking for more information. One of the assets that I do have which is frequently pointed out, I am a VERY quick learner, and I am very reliable and trust worthy. I will give it to you straight, I don’t beat around the bush, I don’t play head games, and my ego is kept in check. I am here to get stuff done.

I have a huge plethora of technologies of which I know, primarily in the internet based domain. Though I am not adverse to developing desktop software, and even hardware systems. I have experience in all of today’s popular languages such as  java, php, c#, coldfusion, pretty much anything…., as well as a few not so popular ones. I would rate myself a 10 for developing client side applications. Maybe a 8 for back-end applications.

I have worked in release environments, all the hot fancy dangled development methods (agile, customer driven, xp). My preferred environment is linux, though windows is good to, I have worked with servers before, primarily tomcat and apache, I can learn other ones easily. Stay tuned for a resume.

I can be contacted at mattprokes@gmail.com / 612-735-1636, salary req are at least 60k for full-time .

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