Matthew Manela

Current

• Software Development Engineer at Microsoft

Past

• Web Developer at Student Association at Binghamton University
• Web Developer at Campus Life Office at Binghamton University
• Software Development Engineer Intern '06 at Microsoft

• Software Developer at Binghamton University Student Information (BUSI)
• Software Development Engineer Intern '05 at Microsoft

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Education

• State University of New York at Binghamton

Recommendations

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Summary

Software Developer and Web Application Developer.
Interested in creating cutting edge and test driven applications.

Specialties:

Experience

• Software Development Engineer

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  August 2007 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  Design and develop a group of sites to enable community content sharing using ASP .NET MVC:
  - Visual Studio Gallery (http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com) – A site where users share and download extensions for Visual Studio
  - Expression Gallery (http://gallery.expression.microsoft.com) – A site where users share content revolving around the Expression line of products
  - TechNet Script Repository (http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter) – A site where IT Professionals can share scripts to help them manage servers and databases

  Create and maintain WCF web service which exposes data from Visual Studio Gallery website to Visual Studio 2010.

  Analyze and improve performance of both the web-tier and the data-tier through SQL query optimization, using a CDN for static content and employing intelligent caching

  I created and manage the Snippet Designer project [http://snippetdesigner.codeplex.com]. An open source plugin for Visual Studio which adds a the ability to edit and search for Snippets inside of Visual Studio.

  I created and manage the DiffPlex project [http://diffplex.codeplex.com]. An open source library and silverlight application for generating visual text diffs.

• Web Developer

  Student Association at Binghamton University

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)

  September 2006 — June 2007 (10 months)

  Upgraded the current student group registration system to allow student groups to register online. The new system also allows the administration to generate more detailed reports about what student groups and exist and search through them.

• Web Developer

  Campus Life Office at Binghamton University

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)

  March 2004 — June 2007 (3 years 4 months)

  I developed websites and automated systems in for the Campus Life Office at Binghamton University. I created a system for event management which lets employees without any web development knowledge update and change content on their website dynamically.

• Software Development Engineer Intern '06

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)

  Worked on integration package for Visual Studio 2005.
  Worked with C++, C#, MS SQL, ASP .NET
  Worked with a very large code base.

• Software Developer

  Binghamton University Student Information (BUSI)

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)

  September 2005 — May 2006 (9 months)

  After developing a class schedule visualizer and organizer with a fellow student was hired by the schools computer registration office to help upgrade their legacy system to use our program. Learned how their current system which used MVS, CICS, CrossPlex and Cobol worked, and figured out ways to connect their current system with out new one.

  Job ended when the University decided to move all funding to a different project.

• Software Development Engineer Intern '05

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  May 2005 — August 2005 (4 months)

  Wrote a tool called Managed Stack Explorer. It is a standalone tool which allows quick debugging of a .NET 2.0 application. Required understanding of the internals of CLR.

Education

• State University of New York at Binghamton

  BS and BA , Computer Science and Mathamatics , 2003 — 2007

Additional Information

Interests:

programming, high level application design, low level programming, management, inventing, reasearching ,web design, reading, basketball, tennis, racquetball, ping pong

Groups:

UPE

•    Linked:Seattle
•    Microsoft Employees
•    Bronx Science Alumni
•    Binghamton University Alumni (and Faculty)
•    Microsoft - Current and Former Employees

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